
“We don’t know from the polling what’s going to occur subsequent week,” Chris Ager, the chairman of the New Hampshire Republican Social gathering, mentioned Tuesday on CNN. “We simply have a really independent-minded citizens, they usually’re not going to take a look at what occurred in Iowa and decide primarily based on that.”
Mr. DeSantis, who has accused each Mr. Trump and Ms. Haley of being insufficiently dedicated to banning abortion, and has positioned his opposition to transgender rights on the middle of the marketing campaign, has not targeted closely on New Hampshire. He has shifted his post-Iowa sources to South Carolina.
“Individuals aren’t choosing their presidential candidate in New Hampshire primarily based on the place they stand on transgender rights,” mentioned Steve Duprey, a former McCain aide who was a Republican Nationwide Committee member from New Hampshire earlier than being ousted for not being loyal sufficient to Mr. Trump.
Final yr, Mr. Duprey endorsed Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina within the presidential race. Then, when Mr. Scott dropped out, he threw his assist behind Ms. Haley, and he’s now working to piece collectively the previous McCain coalition to assist her cease Mr. Trump from working away with the nomination once more.
The problem Mr. Duprey faces is that for a lot of the occasion, the previous concentrate on fiscal points has been changed by the magnetism of Mr. Trump, who in 2016 gained the state’s major election by practically 20 share factors. That contest all however crushed the hopes of a number of reasonable rivals, together with Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio and Chris Christie, and gave an unbelievable increase to John Kasich, who completed second.
Now, Ms. Haley’s probabilities of exhibiting she will compete with Mr. Trump past subsequent week might rely on her capability to reincarnate herself as the subsequent coming of Mr. McCain because the marketing campaign strikes to her residence state, South Carolina. The massive query is whether or not New Hampshire Republicans see her that manner.