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Donald Trump is one step closer to an election rematch<\/a> against United States Democratic President Joe Biden, as the former president secured a decisive victory in New Hampshire\u2019s first-in-the-nation primary on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Within minutes of the state\u2019s polling stations closing, US media announced Trump had beaten his Republican rival Nikki Haley by a substantial margin, dealing a powerful blow to her campaign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With 91 percent of votes counted, Trump won with 54.6 percent of votes and an 11 percentage point winning margin over Haley, who was at 43.2 percent. By late Tuesday, 20 of 22 delegates to the Republican National Convention had been allotted based on the voting: 11 going to Trump and eight to Haley.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ex-president\u2019s resounding victory follows a\u00a0similarly strong showing<\/a>\u00a0in the Iowa caucuses last week, cementing his lead in the race for the Republican presidential nomination ahead of November\u2019s general election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No presidential candidate has ever won the first two contests on the presidential race calendar \u2013 as Trump has now done \u2013 and not emerged as their party\u2019s nominee.Play Video<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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New Hampshire had been framed as Haley\u2019s last best chance<\/a> to make a dent in Trump\u2019s runaway lead. But despite her loss, the former United Nations envoy said in a speech on Tuesday night that she plans to continue her campaign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis race is far from over. There are dozens of states left to go,\u201d she told a crowd of supporters. \u201cToday, we got close to half of the vote. We still have a ways to go, but we keep moving up.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Though she readily acknowledged her defeat in the New Hampshire primary, she also took aim at Trump\u2019s fitness for office and his chances against Biden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWith Donald Trump, Republicans have lost almost every competitive election,\u201d she said. \u201cThe worst kept secret in politics is how badly the Democrats want to run against Donald Trump.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump responded with a fiery speech of his own later in the evening, at his campaign headquarters in Nashua, New Hampshire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The former president accused Haley of claiming a win even in defeat. \u201cWho the hell was the impostor who went up on the stage before and claimed a victory?\u201d Trump asked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While most of the attention was focused on Tuesday\u2019s Republican primary results, President Biden also secured a resounding victory in his party\u2019s primary race, despite not appearing on the ballot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Biden did not participate in the New Hampshire contest due to a scheduling spat between state Democrats and the Democratic National Committee, but his supporters launched a successful campaign to urge voters to write the president\u2019s name on the ballot anyway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He easily bested two distant Democratic challengers, Minnesota Representative Dean Phillips and author Marianne Williamson<\/a>, who were on the ballot along with a host of little-known candidates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDespite President Biden\u2019s absence from the ballot, Granite Staters still turned out in robust numbers to show their support for the great work that the Biden-Harris Administration has done to grow the economy, protect reproductive freedoms, and defend our democracy,\u201d the state\u2019s Democratic Party chair, Raymond Buckley, said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Biden\u2019s victory also came despite reports of a \u201cdeepfake\u201d robocall targeted at New Hampshire\u2019s Democratic residents. Using an imitation of Biden\u2019s voice, the call discouraged voters from participating in Tuesday\u2019s primary<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a statement after the results were announced, Biden\u2019s re-election campaign manager Julie Chavez Rodriguez indicated her attention was now focused on Trump, dismissing Haley\u2019s prospects as a Republican contender in the general election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTonight\u2019s results confirm Donald Trump has all but locked up the GOP nomination, and the election denying, anti-freedom MAGA movement has completed its takeover of the Republican Party,\u201d Chavez Rodriguez said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDonald Trump is headed straight into a general election matchup where he\u2019ll face the only person to have ever beaten him at the ballot box: Joe Biden,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Andrew Smith, a political science professor and president of the University of New Hampshire\u2019s Survey Center, said the margin of victory in both the Republican and Democratic primaries was more or less what was expected heading into Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHaley will likely have to drop out after this. She may stick around until South Carolina, but she is just playing out the string,\u201d Smith told Al Jazeera in an email<\/p>\n\n\n\n

New Hampshire has held the first primary in each US presidential election year since 1920. Experts predicted the state would be markedly more receptive to Haley than other states she would later face, given its strong base of moderate voters. Her next must-win stop will be her home state of South Carolina.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Christopher Galdieri, a professor at New Hampshire\u2019s Saint Anselm College, said Haley made a \u201csmart move\u201d by using her speech \u201cnot so much as a concession but as an opportunity to introduce herself to voters across the country\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But Galdieri added it was unclear if that would be enough to keep her campaign going amid Trump\u2019s iron-clad grip on the Republican Party.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cRepublicans are so wedded to Donald Trump \u2013 they have so wrapped up being a good Republican with being a good Trump supporter \u2013 that it\u2019s just really hard for them to shake out of that,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Donald Trump is one step closer to an election rematch against United States Democratic President Joe Biden, as the former president secured a decisive victory in New Hampshire\u2019s first-in-the-nation primary on Tuesday. Within minutes of the state\u2019s polling stations closing, US media announced Trump had beaten his Republican rival Nikki Haley by a substantial margin, dealing a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":23167,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1169,3676,2305,1151,5045,1906,26200],"class_list":["post-23166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-biden","tag-charges","tag-conspiracy","tag-gaza","tag-genocide","tag-trial","tag-us-court"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23166"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23168,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23166\/revisions\/23168"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}