Former President of the United States of America, Donald Trump has won the New Hampshire Republican party primary election on Tuesday.
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The win gives President Trump 12 out of the 21 delegates on offer in the granite state.
He won 54.4% of the votes, clearly beating his closest rival, Nikki Haley, a former Governor of the State of South Carolina, who got 43.3% of the votes and the remaining 9 delegates.
In his victory speech, Trump thanked his supporters, while taunting both his Republican challenger, Haley and expected Democratic opponent, President Joe Biden.
”We’ve won almost every single poll in the last three months against crooked Joe Biden, almost, and she doesn’t win those polls,” he added, going on to say that Biden “can’t put two sentences together” or “find the stairs off the stage.”
Nikki Haley, who served as at the United Nations Ambassador under Trump’s Presidency vowed to remain in the race, saying it was “far from over” with “dozens of states left to go.”
Trump had earlier in the month won the Iowa caucus, the first Republican primary election with 51.0% of the vote, gaining 20 delegates.
He was well ahead of Governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis who came second and gained 9 delegates, and Nikki Haley who came third and gained 8 delegates.
Ron DeSantis has since dropped out of the US presidential race and endorsed former President Trump.
Self-funding entrepreneur, Vivek Ramaswamy who came fourth in Iowa had also pulled out of the race and endorsed President Trump.
Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel who has stayed neutral since the very start of the 2024 GOP presidential nomination race sent a signal to Nikki Haley to pull out of the race after the New Hampshire votes.
“I’m looking at the math and the path going forward, and I don’t see it for Nikki Haley,” McDaniel told anchors Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum in a Fox News Channel interview late on Tuesday night.
“I think she’s run a great campaign, but I do think there is a message that’s coming out from the voters, which is very clear,” McDaniel emphasized.
Nnamdi Maduakor is a Writer, Investor and Entrepreneur
