Trump won again. Now what happens?
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🗓️ 24 January 2024
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Today in an early edition of “Post Reports,” we recap the New Hampshire primary results. Trump won decisively – but the results show divisions in the GOP. Plus, the unusual write-in campaign in the Democratic race that led President Biden to victory.
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Former President Donald Trump defeated former U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley in New Hampshire’s primary. But Tuesday’s results also show enduring divisions in the GOP, and they expose Trump’s weaknesses with moderates.
President Biden, absent from both the campaign trail and the election ballot in New Hampshire, nonetheless dominated the state’s Democratic primary race, fueled by a write-in campaign aimed at showing his strength despite the misgivings of many in his party.
Guest host Arjun Singh was in New Hampshire and caught up with campaign reporter Meryl Kornfield there about what we can learn from the results – and whether this all means the primary is over.
Today’s show was produced by Rennie Svirnovskiy and Arjun Singh. It was mixed by Justin Gerrish. It was edited by Maggie Penman.
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, I'm standing outside of a polling location. It's one of the largest in New Hampshire and there's like a really long line of voters. |
| 0:08.0 | And in the last like 30 minutes or so, I have noticed some secret service agents pull up. A little bit more |
| 0:16.0 | police than we're here earlier this morning. So it's giving. Trump is about to be here. They want a great country. |
| 0:25.0 | They want a great country. |
| 0:28.0 | They want a country where we say, make America great again. |
| 0:31.0 | There's nothing like make America great again. That's all you have to say. We are making America great. |
| 0:36.6 | For months, candidates have been barnstorming New Hampshire in one of America's longest political traditions, the New Hampshire primaries. |
| 0:44.8 | But last night, there wasn't a lot of suspense. |
| 0:48.3 | Former President Donald Trump was declared the winner on the Republican side, |
| 0:52.6 | almost as soon as the polls closed. |
| 0:55.2 | When you win Iowa and you win New Hampshire, |
| 0:58.4 | they've never had a loss. |
| 0:59.6 | There's never been. |
| 1:00.2 | So we're not going to be the first, can tell you and I just I just do want to |
| 1:05.2 | reiterate the polls we're way up on everybody we're way up on Biden. |
| 1:09.6 | There's only one major candidate who stood against Trump when voters went to the polls, |
| 1:15.0 | former UN Ambassador Nicky Haley. |
| 1:17.0 | New Hampshire was widely seen to be a make or break for her campaign. |
| 1:21.0 | Now, many are wondering how long Haley will even stay in this race. |
| 1:25.0 | But on Tuesday night, she was defiant. |
| 1:28.0 | This race is far from over. |
| 1:30.0 | There are dozens of states left to go. |
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