President Joe Biden fired the starting gun in the general election race on Tuesday night, soon after former President Donald Trump went two from two in the first nominating states. Although Nikki Haley vowed to continue her campaign, Biden’s comments were simply the latest admission that Trump had all but secured the Republican nomination with a double digits win in New Hampshire. ‘It is now clear that Donald Trump will be the Republican nominee,’ said Biden.
Published January 24, 2024
- Donald Trump claimed his second big win the 2024 nomination race Tuesday
- Nikki Haley’s donors must decide whether it is worth bankrolling her
- And pollsters said they see no path for Haley to overtake Trump
President Joe Biden fired the starting gun in the general election race on Tuesday night, soon after former President Donald Trump went two from two in the first nominating states.
Although Nikki Haley vowed to continue her campaign, Biden’s comments were simply the latest admission that Trump had all but secured the Republican nomination with a double digits win in New Hampshire.
‘It is now clear that Donald Trump will be the Republican nominee,’ said Biden in a statement around 11pm Eastern time.
‘And my message to the country is the stakes could not be higher. Our Democracy. Our personal freedoms – from the right to choose to the right to vote … all are at stake.’
His words reflect the growing sense that the Republican race has become a coronation.
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SOURCE: www.dailymail.co.uk
TITLE: Report: Team Biden Wants a Trump Rematch, but Some Democrats Worry It Will Backfire
Published January 23, 2024
Former President Donald Trump could end up effectively wrapping up the Republican presidential nomination in a matter of days and Team Biden seems to be all for it, according to a report.
Axios reported Tuesday that President Joe Biden’s team believes that Trump becoming the presumptive Republican nominee for president would give a “much-needed jolt of energy to voters and grassroots donors” who do not want to see Trump back in the White House.
The report said Biden’s campaign has internal data indicating that most of the undecided voters Biden is targeting do not think Trump will be the Republican nominee because they have not tuned into the election.
However, some Democrat strategists are reportedly worried about this logic.
First, Democrat voters are not as enthusiastic about Biden as Republican voters are about Trump, according to recent polls.
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SOURCE: www.breitbart.com
RELATED: Donald Trump ascendant as ‘walls close in’ on Nikki Haley’s White House bid
Former president’s big New Hampshire primary victory cements his hold over the Republican party
Published January 23, 2024
Donald Trump overcame the biggest early obstacle on his path to a White House comeback on Tuesday night — and delivered what could be the knockout blow to his last competitor on the Republican side.
He beat Nikki Haley, the former South Carolina governor, by a margin wide enough to leave little uncertainty about the outcome in the state as results started to roll in.
The victory in New Hampshire was the biggest prize after a 10-day blitz by the former president to lock up Republican support, as he jetted back and forth between campaign rallies and court appearances in New York.
It started with an emphatic win in the Iowa caucuses last week, continued with the endorsement of several former rivals including Florida governor Ron DeSantis, and was capped by an outburst at Haley from a hotel ballroom as he taunted her in an attempt to force her out of the race.
“Just a little note to Nikki: she’s not going to win,” he said, during a short rant on a stage in Nashua. With a large entourage standing behind him, he called her an “imposter” and issued what seemed some kind of warning to the woman he had once appointed as his ambassador to the UN: “I don’t get too angry, I get even.”
Haley, speaking 35 miles north in Concord, New Hampshire’s capital, vowed to keep fighting through the South Carolina primary next month and at least until the “Super Tuesday” contests in early March, when a host of states hold their primaries.
“They’re falling all over themselves saying this race is over. Well, I have news for all of them,” Haley said. “New Hampshire is first in the nation, it is not the last in the nation.”
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SOURCE: www.ft.com
RELATED:Biden wins New Hampshire 2024 primary with write-in campaign
Published January 23, 2024
EXETER, New Hampshire — President Biden secured a victory in New Hampshire’s Democratic primary Tuesday night, despite not being listed on the ballot and leaving supporters to write his name in.
With more than a quarter of the expected Democratic vote in, the 81-year-old incumbent was projected to have more than enough support to thwart his nearest challenger, Rep. Dean Phillips (D-Minn.), who attained 20% of the vote.
Self-help author Marianne Williamson was a distant third, with 5% of the vote.
Biden declined to register for the New Hampshire primary ballot following a calendar dispute between the Democratic National Committee and state officials.
The DNC had attempted to move the first-in-the-nation primary to South Carolina on Feb. 3, but New Hampshire refused to comply, since state law mandates it hold its primary at least a week before any other state.
To counter Biden’s snub, state Democratic bigwigs put their influence behind the “Write-in Biden” initiative, which placed volunteers at polling places, put up signs and sent out mail instructing New Hampshire Democrats on what to do on primary day.
Longtime Democratic strategists feared that Biden’s absence from the ballot could lead to a repeat of the 1968 primary, when then-President Lyndon B. Johnson also was not listed on the ballot and announced he would not seek another term following a narrower-than-expected win over Sen. Eugene McCarthy (D-Minn.)
Although Biden’s absence likely depressed voter turnout for him, Tuesday’s finish represented a major improvement over four years ago, when he came in fifth place with around 8% of the vote.
Biden’s win likely means the end of the road is near for Phillips, who revealed last week he had dropped $5 million of his own money on his campaign.
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SOURCE: www.nypost.com
