A new duel between Joe Biden and Donald Trump in November is more likely than ever, after the former president’s victory in the New Hampshire primary, which cemented his status as favorite in the race for the Republican nomination.
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The real estate mogul gave a “victory” speech after the results of the vote pitting him against Nikki Haley were announced. Her rival, a former ambassador to the UN, had once hoped to win this small state in the northeast, where conservative voters are considered more moderate.
Donald Trump ultimately beat her by around 11 points, with more than 54% of the votes, or some 163,000 ballots.
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After his recent victory in Iowa, he becomes the first Republican primary candidate to win in these two states without being the incumbent president. In the past, all those who won these first two ballots were subsequently invested.
Joe Biden also won the Democratic primary in New Hampshire, even though he was not even officially registered there, due to quarrels with the local Democratic branch. Voters put his name on the ballot.
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If Nikki Haley, the only woman in the running for the Republican nomination, wanted to believe that the race was “far from over” between her and her 77-year-old rival, the Democratic president immediately designated Donald Trump as his opponent. beat.
“Everything is at stake”
“The stakes couldn’t be higher. Our democracy. Our individual freedoms (…). Our economy (…). Everything is at stake,” reacted the 81-year-old Democrat.
Joe Biden is counting on good American economic health, but above all on the fear that Donald Trump inspires in order to mobilize the Americans – the majority of whom, according to polls, have little appetite for a return match between the two men.
His victory in the New Hampshire primary is symbolic – Joe Biden has no serious competition and he is assured, barring any surprises or health accidents, of being inaugurated in August.
But his supporters will want to see this as a reassuring indication, especially since the president had, in this same state, a very poor score during the 2020 primary.
“It was quite a good evening” for Joe Biden, even admitted a former spokesperson for Donald Trump, Kayleigh McEnany, on Fox News.
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The real test for Joe Biden will be the South Carolina Democratic primary on February 3. In 2020, this is where he gained momentum towards the White House, supported by African-American voters.
As for Donald Trump, he believes he has his chance for “revenge” – that is what he promised, after the defeat of November 2020, which he never acknowledged; after the storming of the Capitol the following January by his supporters; and while he is surrounded by legal proceedings, four of which are criminal.
On Monday, the Republican, who since his victorious 2016 campaign has continued to widen partisan divides in the United States, attacked Joe Biden, “the worst president” that America has ever had.
“Chaos”
To face Joe Biden on November 5, Donald Trump will have to be invested this summer by his party’s convention, at the end of all the primaries in the American states against Nikki Haley, if she maintains.
For the rest, the former president has already cleared the air. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, once considered his main rival, rallied after the vote in Iowa.
Nikki Haley criticizes the former populist president for spreading “chaos”, whose mandate was marked by a succession of angry tweets, diplomatic upheavals and violent declarations.
In recent days, the former governor of South Carolina, who will hold her Republican primaries on February 24, has also questioned her “declining” cognitive abilities.
A shame for Donald Trump, who makes fun of Joe Biden, his age and his blunders.
The Democratic president chose Tuesday to speak on a theme considered very promising for his party: the defense of the right to abortion.
Traveling to Virginia, near Washington, with Vice-President Kamala Harris, he accused Donald Trump of wanting “at all costs” to increasingly restrict access to voluntary terminations of pregnancies.
But his speech was interrupted several times by pro-Palestinian demonstrators, illustrating the tensions caused, within the progressive electorate, by the White House’s policy of very firm support for Israel.
