Joe starts preparing for 2024 rematch and ignores ‘scrappy’ Haley staying in as she’s warned she will get pummelled in South Carolina and can’t count on Democrats to win
- Donald Trump claimed his second big win the 2024 nomination race Tuesday
- Nikki Haley’s donors must decide whether it is worth bankrolling her
- And pollsters said they see no path for Haley to overtake Trump
‘It is now clear that Donald Trump will be the Republican nominee,’ said Biden in a statement around 11pm Eastern time.
‘And my message to the country is the stakes could not be higher. Our Democracy. Our personal freedoms – from the right to choose to the right to vote … all are at stake.’
His words reflect the growing sense that the Republican race has become a coronation.
No candidate who has won the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary has failed to go on to be their party’s nominee.
So even though Trump won on Tuesday by less than the landslide predicted by polls, his party at a Nashua hotel took on the air of a celebration at the end of a long campaign.
‘When you win Iowa and you win New Hampshire …’ no one has ever lost, said Trump.
‘There’s never been so we’re not going to be the first I can tell you. We’re way up on everybody.’
Trump drew blood even before the first votes were cast. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis dropped out on Sunday.
Pollsters say they see little hope of Haley winning the next few states in play. She faces difficult conversations with donors about whether to keep paying salaries until the next meaningful contest in South Carolina in a month’s time.
And the final rallies of Trump’s New Hampshire push were designed to promote an idea of inevitability, as he brought on stage opponents that he had already forced out of the race.
Sen. Tim Scott and Vivek Ramaswamy joined him again on Tuesday night as results showed he had won by 11 points.
‘This election is over,’ said Scott to roars of approval.
