WASHINGTON, Feb 16 (Reuters) – Republican presidential hopeful Nikki Haley brings her nascent marketing campaign to New Hampshire on Thursday, as the previous U.N. ambassador seeks to spice up her nationwide profile and construct momentum in a state that performs a key function in selecting presidents.
Haley this week turned simply the second main Republican to say she is searching for the get together’s presidential nomination in 2024, taking over her outdated boss former President Donald Trump. The 51-year-old daughter of Indian immigrants held her first marketing campaign occasion on Wednesday in Charleston, South Carolina.
As that state’s former governor, serving from 2011 to 2017, she was met with a heat welcome in entrance of a well-known crowd, however will face a brand new take a look at in New Hampshire, which is anticipated to host the primary Republican major of the 2024 marketing campaign.
“She was in entrance of , hometown crowd … The query is whether or not she’s going to be capable to carry that momentum into states the place she just isn’t as well-known, locations like Iowa and New Hampshire,” mentioned Rob Godfrey, a Republican strategist who served as Haley’s deputy chief of workers when she was governor.
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Trump gained the New Hampshire major in 2016, setting the stage for his profitable first marketing campaign, and simply gained the nomination a second time in 2020 earlier than shedding his reelection bid to Democrat Joe Biden.
However voters within the state even have repeatedly reelected Republican Governor Chris Sununu, a much more reasonable voice than Trump’s, and in November rejected hard-right Republican U.S. Senate candidate Don Bolduc.
Haley will seem at a night city corridor occasion in Exeter, about 45 miles (70 km) north of Boston in southern New Hampshire.
Within the first days of her marketing campaign, Haley has pressured the necessity for generational change. Trump is 76, and Biden, who is anticipated to hunt reelection however has not formally launched a marketing campaign, is 80.
Haley has additionally pointed to her time as U.N. ambassador below Trump from 2017 to 2018 as proof she will be able to stand as much as geopolitical foes, together with China and Russia.
She has her work minimize out for her. A Reuters/Ipsos ballot launched on Tuesday discovered that simply 4% of registered Republicans supported the previous governor for president.
Trump obtained assist from 43% of registered Republicans within the ballot carried out from Feb. 6-13, whereas 31% mentioned they supported Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who is anticipated to launch a marketing campaign however has not but completed so.
The Iowa caucus and New Hampshire major have historically been the primary two occasions of the U.S. presidential nominating season.
Democrats this yr have voted to bypass these two states, that are much less numerous than the nation at giant, in favor of kicking off in South Carolina. Republicans plan to stay to the normal path.
Subsequent week, Haley will head to Iowa for a pair of marketing campaign stops.
Reporting by Richard Cowan in Washington, and Gram Slattery in Charleston, S.C.; Modifying by Scott Malone and Invoice Berkrot
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