Donald Trump in an interview with Newsmax/ screenshot
Donald Trump won the Republican Party’s New Hampshire Primary on Tuesday, to no one’s surprise. What is surprising, however, is that the American public still allows small remote states like Iowa and New Hampshire to determine who the major party candidates for President will be.
With 91% of the vote counted at this time, former President Donald Trump took 54.6% of the vote with 163,355 votes. His only remaining opponent in the primaries. Former governor of South Carolina Nikki Haley has 43.1% of the vote with 129,087 votes.
In a nation where there are almost 260 million people over the age of 18 and eligible to vote in the upcoming November national elections, about 400,000 have now voted in the Republican primaries. This, of course, should determine who the next president should be.
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The political pundits in America will now do what they do best: they will fill the American news channels with chatter about what all his means, treating presidential elections like the current round of NFL playoffs. They will dissect each primary election in the same way that sportscasters conduct post mortems on football playoff games the day after, insisting that they know exactly what the losing team did wrong that cost them the game.
What they will talk about now is how, running in effect as an incumbent, Donald Trump only took a simple majority of the vote in New Hampshire.
In 1992, hen incumbent President George Bush won more than 60% of the vote in New Hampshire. But the strong showing by his upstart challenger Pat Buchanan – who took almost 40% of the vote – hurt Bush who went on to lose the general election to Bill Clinton. In 1980 when Senator Ted Kennedy challenged then incumbent President Jimmy Carter he also made a strong showing in New Hampshire. And Carter went on to lose his bid for reelection to Ronald Reagan.
On Tuesday night Donald Trump was, as expected, anything but gracious in victory.
“She did very poorly, actually. She had to win,” Trump said of his challenger Nikki Halley. “The governor said she’s going to win, then she failed badly.”
Donald Trump also tried to imply that Nikki Haley could be investigated for some sort of criminal reason.
“Just a little note to Nikki—she’s not going to win, but if she did, she would be under investigation in 15 minutes, and I could tell you five reasons why already,” said Donald Trump. “Not big reasons, little stuff she doesn’t want to talk about. So would Ron have been, but he decided to get out.”
Of course, Trump did not get into any details. But he is an expert on such matters considering that Donald Trump is currently on trial in four different cases, or is it five?
Next week Nikki Halley’s home state South Carolina will vote.
Let’s see if Nikki Halley can keep it an interesting race for a few months at least. Otherwise, a runaway Donald Trump campaign would be as boring as the second half of a Super Bowl when one team already leads by more than 30 points at halftime.
