After Donald Trump’s record victory in the Iowa caucuses, New Hampshire voters now get their turn to decide just how competitive the Republican nominating fight will be as the former president continues to dominate his party.
Trump has been eager this week to flaunt his 30-point victory in Iowa, stepping up the pressure on former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to improve on their distant finishes in the opening votes of the 2024 presidential election.
Here’s what you need to know about the New Hampshire primary:
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When is the New Hampshire primary?
New Hampshire is the longtime host of the nation’s first presidential primary, which will take place next Tuesday, Jan. 23.
A tiny community near the Canadian border will kick off the state’s voting as the clock strikes midnight. Dixville Notch has been in the spotlight since 1960, when the owner of the Balsams resort, Neil Tillotson, arranged for residents to vote at midnight, with the polls closing and results announced within minutes. The resort closed in 2011, but voting has continued in various locations. This year, voting will take place in Tillotson’s former home, in a living room decorated with photos and memorabilia from previous primary voters.
How is New Hampshire different from Iowa?
First, it’s a primary, not a caucus.
For the Republican presidential candidates, New Hampshire’s electorate is less religiously conservative and less rural than in Iowa, factors that helped Trump in Iowa’s GOP caucuses. If DeSantis and Haley cannot capitalize on those differences, they could watch Trump sustain momentum that would render the rest of the Republican primary calendar little more than a formality.
Haley, who has sought to build a wide coalition that includes independents, has put great emphasis on New Hampshire, hoping it becomes a springboard to her home-state South Carolina primary next month. DeSantis, who has run more as a Trumpian…
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