Donald Trump.Photo:Sean Rayford/Getty
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Donald Trumpscored another electoral win on Tuesday, claiming victory in the New Hampshire Republican primary one week after he dominated his party’s Iowa caucuses.
TheAssociated Presscalled the election for Trump before the majority of ballots had been processed in the Granite State. Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, who also served as Trump’s ambassador to the UN, came in second place.
U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley meets with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office in 2018.OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP via Getty
The New Hampshire results come one week after Trump was declared the winner of the Iowa caucuses just 31 minutes after they began, ultimately receiving 51% of the vote — far ahead of second-place finisherRon DeSantis' 21.3% and Haley’s 19.1%, according to the Associated Press.
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In recent weeks, the Republican primary field has been whittled down to just Trump and Haley as the two major 2024 candidates. The most recent dropout, DeSantis,suspended his campaignon Sunday and endorsed Trump in the process.
“We don’t have a clear path to victory. Accordingly, I am today suspending my campaign,” he continued.
“It’s clear to me that a majority of Republican primary voters want to give Donald Trump another chance,” DeSantis then noted, adding: “He has my endorsement because we can’t go back to the old Republican guard of yesteryear, a repackaged form of warmed-over corporatism that Nikki Haley represents.”
source: people.com
