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Chasing the Base: Nikki Haley's New Hampshire Test

WSJ What’s News

The Wall Street Journal

Daily News, News

4.14.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2024

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

New Hampshire offers the best chance for Donald Trump’s rivals in the Republican presidential primary race to notch a win, political analysts say, because of its relatively centrist GOP electorate and an open primary that lets independent voters cast ballots alongside the party’s base. Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie tried to make an anti-Trump case there and failed, and now former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley is hoping her argument that chaos follows the former president will resonate with enough people to give her an upset victory. WSJ political reporter Jimmy Vielkind travels to New Hampshire to speak with die-hard Trump supporters and other voters who have been turned off by his ongoing criminal cases and other baggage. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:39.1

flywave demonstration which is an all-weather demonstration and right now I don't know if this is

0:44.9

rain or sleet or a freezing rain it's kind of the worst winter weather.

0:51.4

These guys don't quit. They really come in here every single weekend.

0:56.2

14 below zero. Oh yeah.

0:58.2

Dean Jernstrom is part of a group that's been here every Saturday morning since the summer of 2020.

1:05.7

The number of people fluctuates, but even in the worst New Hampshire weather, I found

1:10.0

a dozen of them across from the McDonald's outside this college town. They wave

1:14.8

different versions of the Stars and Stripes as well as a flag with the anti-Biden

1:19.1

slogan, Let's Go Brandon. A lot of passing cars honked their horns. Occasionally,

1:25.4

driver would flip the bird. We just holler back, have a nice day. We love you. You love

1:31.3

them. Yeah. I tell them I love them. I hollow that. Yeah. I love you. Yeah, you love them. I love them. I hollow that. I love you!

1:35.0

The flag wave is technically nonpartisan, but there's little doubt. This is Donald Trump's base. And the fact that they

1:45.3

were out there in the sleet earlier this month is pretty much a perfect metaphor

1:49.2

for what we're seeing politically. Despite his loss in 2020 and the four indictments he's been hit with since,

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