By The Associated Press
A day after Donald Trump gained Iowa’s caucuses, the race for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination has turned to New Hampshire.
Trump, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley are holding occasions within the first-in-the-nation GOP main state on Tuesday, hoping to capitalize on their performances in Iowa. Trump gained by greater than 30 share factors, whereas DeSantis narrowly edged Haley for second place.
Disappointing finishes in Iowa by biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy and former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson led to their exits from the race.
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DeSantis stops in South Carolina to rib Haley
GREENVILLE, S.C. — On his solution to next-voting New Hampshire, DeSantis made a cease in South Carolina to emphasise he plans to tackle and beat Haley in her dwelling state.
He requested the gang of a number of hundred at a transformed airplane hangar in Greenville if any of them may title an accomplishment throughout Haley’s six years as governor. No palms went up. DeSantis mentioned in Florida, there would have been loads of palms.
He later informed reporters that the door remains to be open for somebody to beat Trump for the nomination and that his second-place end exhibits he’s that selection.
“Half the people wanted someone else,” DeSantis mentioned, referring to the 51% of the vote Trump captured in Iowa.
Digging in additional on Haley, he mentioned she was the rationale he did a Fox News debate with Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom final 12 months.
“I needed practice debating someone almost as liberal as Nikki Haley,” DeSantis mentioned.
Trump spends the morning after his Iowa caucus win in court docket
NEW YORK — Trump has a marketing campaign rally scheduled later Tuesday in New Hampshire, however he spent the primary a part of the day in a New York courtroom for the penalty part of a civil defamation trial stemming from a columnist’s claims he sexually attacked her a long time earlier.
After a number of dozen potential jurors have been sworn in, Trump shook his head because the choose described the case typically phrases and defined that for functions of the trial, it had already been decided that Trump did sexually assault columnist E. Jean Carroll.
In May, a distinct jury awarded Carroll $5 million after concluding that Trump sexually abused her in a division retailer dressing room 1996, then defamed her in 2022 by claiming she made it up after she revealed it publicly in a 2019 memoir.
He was not required to be current Tuesday and didn’t attend the primary trial.
Source: www.bostonherald.com”