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The Daily

Why the G.O.P. Nomination Fight Is Now (All But) Over

The Daily

The New York Times

Daily News, News

4.4102.8K Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

On Tuesday, Donald J. Trump beat Nikki Haley in New Hampshire. His win accelerated a push for the party to coalesce behind him and deepened questions about the path forward for Ms. Haley, his lone remaining rival. Jonathan Weisman, a political correspondent for The Times, discusses the real meaning of the former president's victory.

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0:00.0

From the New York Times, I'm Michael Bobaro. This is the Daily. Today, the real meaning of Donald Trump's victory last night in the New Hampshire Republican primary.

0:17.0

I spoke with Times political correspondent Jonathan Weisman.

0:26.0

It's Wednesday, January 24th. Jonathan, are you rolling? I'm rolling. I'm rolling. I'm right here.

0:40.1

Okay, very good. So it is at this very moment 11.03 PM and we have almost the full results of the New Hampshire primary. I think 70 some percent of the votes are in. So just walk us

0:57.0

through the top line numbers. So it looks like Donald Trump has beat Nicky Haley in New Hampshire by about 10.5 11 percentage

1:08.2

points.

1:09.5

That's certainly not the kind of blowout that we saw in Iowa. It's not even as bad as some of the

1:16.8

late polling that had her down more like 15, 16 percentage points. But for Nicky Haley, a loss is a loss.

1:26.0

She really needed to pull New Hampshire out

1:29.7

and it only gets a lot more difficult from here. And look what Trump won.

1:35.0

what Trump won. He won women. He won men.

1:38.0

He won Republicans. He won conservative Republicans.

1:42.0

He pretty much did what he did in Iowa, which was to show

1:46.9

that he has control over the Republican electorate.

1:51.9

Right. And now I think the question on everyone's mind, let's just

1:57.2

got to the chase, is whether this nomination battle is basically now over.

2:03.3

Did Trump just end Nicki Haley's candidacy effectively?

2:07.8

Thank you, New Hampshire, for the love, the kindness of support,

2:11.9

and a great night here tonight.

2:14.0

So after the race was called,

2:16.6

Nicki Hilli came out to her after party, I'll call it,

2:20.3

and she said,

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