 The New Hampshire people are plain-spoken, decent, and conservative. They are also politically savvy. There is some good news in how they expressed themselves in their state’s Republican Primary.
This blog, Against the Flow, sees three main aspects of the New Hampshire result: first, Donald Trump underperformed. His results were well below his own much-vaunted expectations; second, Trump showed himself to be a very poor winner and he put on display several distasteful aspects of his character; and third, and perhaps surprisingly, organizers for President Joe Biden may well be pleased to be very likely competing head to head against Trump in November. Trump underperformed: The former president wanted to beat Nikky Haley by at least twenty percentage points. In fact, his margin of victory was more like 10 per cent. His total was far below his own much vaunted expectations, and he was not pleased. The Trump juggernaut blew a tire, and the former president, for all his faults, is not stupid. The New Hampshire result may have told him that despite his strength in much of the Republican Party, his election in November is not a sure bet.
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