
Inner polling performed final month within the state by Individuals for Prosperity Motion, an excellent PAC based by the billionaire Koch household that’s backing Ms. Haley’s marketing campaign, discovered that in a full area of Republican candidates, she trailed Mr. Trump by 45 % to 32 %.
However in a head-to-head matchup between Ms. Haley and Mr. Trump, with out Mr. DeSantis, Vivek Ramaswamy or Chris Christie — each of whom have since left the race — the polling discovered Ms. Haley in a statistical tie with Mr. Trump, 48 % to 45 %.
Nonetheless, Mr. DeSantis’s obvious withdrawal from New Hampshire will not be assured to be excellent news for her. Supporters of Mr. DeSantis are usually extra conservative than Ms. Haley’s moderate-leaning coalition, so those that bounce ship from the Florida governor would possibly vote for Mr. Trump as a substitute.
CBS Information earlier reported Mr. DeSantis’s shift towards South Carolina.
Mr. DeSantis was denied his finest likelihood at publicity in New Hampshire when Ms. Haley turned down two debates scheduled for Thursday and Sunday. Even the climate gave the impression to be in opposition to him there. A snowstorm and icy roads pressured him to cancel two city halls in rural components of the state on Tuesday night time and Wednesday morning, whereas Ms. Haley and Mr. Trump had been capable of undergo with their occasions.
Mr. Trump was set to return to New Hampshire on Wednesday night. He spent the morning in a Manhattan courthouse for his defamation trial, the place the author E. Jean Carroll testified that Mr. Trump had “shattered my repute” by accusing her of mendacity about her declare that he raped her in a division retailer dressing room many years in the past. Mr. Trump’s disclaiming feedback, loud sufficient for jurors to listen to, prompted the decide within the case to threaten to throw him out of the room.