a.m. eastern. polls are open across new hampshire and the first primary of the 2024 republican race for the white house. it s now a one-on-one face-off between donald trump and nikki haley. today say make or break moment for the campaign, in a mission to beat donald trump after she finished third in iowa. but new hampshire marks an entirely different landscape. undeclared voters make up a state that is more suburban and more secular than iowa. past midnight, a bright state for the haley campaign in dixville notch, betweening all six votes that has endured since 1960. trump s opponents rallying around him in a show of force while haley took jabs on her own. so if you want a losing candidate who puts america last, vote for nikki haley. but if you want a president who puts america first every single time, you re going to vote for donald j. trump and you have to get out. so, what i will say to donald trump is, if you have that political elite, you can have them, because that
laconia to portsmouth, asking voters if they want something new in this small slice of america, where making your decision is a point of pride. it is hard to predict what will happen in any given election. or is it? i changed my vote this morning and went, instead of voting for haley, i voted for trump. why? i think the election, the primary s over. i think that you know, mr. trump s going to be our next candidate. trump or haley? trump. yeah. considering haley? yes, i was. this morning. how did you make up your mind? really just i like when trump was already kind of in there. he has the experience and just kind of having second guesses about nikki. so what would another general election with donald trump as the nominee look like? if that happens, well, exactly like this, according to donald trump. how do you bring nikki haley voters, some who voted for you in 2020. how do you bring them back? they re all going to vote for me again, everybody. i m no
drops out of the race, saying it s clear a majority of republicans want to give trump another chance. the bombshell announcement comes as trump and nikki haley sharpen their attacks on each other. haley now claims the former president is experiencing cognitive decline after appearing to confuse haley with former house speaker nancy pelosi. rachel scott is in new hampshire with what this means just two days before the new hampshire primary. linsey: also tonight, american troops targeted. attacks on u.s. air base in iraq now raise concerns about a wider conflict. this all comes just days after the pentagon ordered a sixth round of air strikes against houthi rebels inside yemen. the strikes from the u.s. are not deterring the iranian-backed rebels as their attacks on ships in the red sea cause a massive ripple effect in the global supply chain. the grim death toll in gaza. more than 25,000 dead since the beginning of the war with israel, according to the hamas-run health min
my parents, i mean, they re pretty sophisticated. if they had gotten that, they would ve believed it was the president calling. that has an impact on voters. i think it s been corrected in time incense that i ve received two text messages from the right in biden folks saying, don t pay attention to that. it s not true. i ve got to praise governor sununu for being on top of it. he actually did say that he believes that whoever did to this should be prosecuted to the full extent. it s good to see that we are united behind it and we look forward to finding out who it is and we hope they do it because we don t want this to go anywhere else. let this stop here, now, and not continue across the country. people think these things are funny or coffee or silly. they are not. they are deadly serious. more partly, they are dangerous. great, jennifer, thank you so much. we will have to leave it there. but the clock. our special coverage on the new hampshire primary is starting right no
in 2016, donald trump won the new hampshire primary by a. lot he had just lost in iowa, but in 2016 when he came to new hampshire, he beat his nearest rival, john kasich, by about 20 point. ahead of that new hampshire victory in 2016, trump had racked up endorsements from precisely zero republicans in congress, none in the house, none in the senate, not even any sitting governors either. so contrast that you have her experience in 2016 for trump with what has just happened tonight. as of tonight, heading into today s new hampshire primary, a majority, more than half of all republicans in the house and senate had already endorsed trump. again, but this point in the race in 2016, that number was zero. he s now got a majority of elected republicans in washington, former presidential contender tim scott was that latest high-profile senator to endorse trump before tonight, on friday, after ron desantis dropped out this weekend he too endorsed trump, the 11th sitting governor to do