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As New Hampshire’s GOP primary approaches, candidates have ramped up their appearances and spending in the state, including former S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley, who sees the state as her best chance for an upset victory.
Haley’s team has invested more than $26 million in funds for winning New Hampshire, as reported by NBC. However, the efforts are seemingly in vain, as President Trump is on track for his second landslide victory of the Republican primaries.
According to a recent survey from Boston Globe/Suffolk of 500 Likely Voters on Wednesday, Trump leads his Republican primary opponents, Haley, and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, in New Hampshire by an identical margin to his record-breaking win in Iowa.
Trump, who has spent a reported $12 million in New Hampshire, according to NBC, received nearly 51 percent support in the Granite State, and Haley carried almost 34 percent of the state’s likely primary voters.
Meanwhile, DeSantis did not even break double-digits, taking just over five percent among New Hampshire Republicans.
Interestingly, this poll is the first one conducted since the campaign suspension of businessman Vivek Ramaswamy, who dropped out of the race just hours after the Iowa caucus and endorsed Trump.
Moreover, Boston Globe/Suffolk’s survey from earlier this month showed Trump at 46 percent in New Hampshire, though after the suspension and endorsement from Ramaswamy, the president’s poll numbers increased by four points.
Ramaswamy appeared alongside the president during a Trump rally in Atkinson, New Hampshire on Tuesday, warning the audience that there “won’t be a country left” if Republicans do not win the White House in 2024.
“We believe those ideals still exist, this man is going to be your next president to revive them,” he stated, speaking to the ideals of the Founding Fathers.
“This is a 1776 moment RIGHT NOW,” Ramaswamy added.
New Hampshire’s GOP primaries is scheduled to take place on Tuesday, Jan. 23.
The Granite State’s Democrat primaries will also take place on Jan. 23. However, Joe Biden will not appear on the state’s ballot except as a write-in candidate following the Democrat National Committee’s (DNC) controversial decision to make South Carolina their party’s first primary contest instead.