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Ex-president follows up his Iowa win with victory over Nikki Haley – and makes threats against his last Republican primary rivalThe cruelty is the point.As Joe Biden acknowledged on Tuesday night, Donald Trump now has the Republican presidential nomination sewn up. But like a Roman emperor or mob boss, Trump used his victory speech in New Hampshire to humiliate his former opponents – and...

The Granite state’s primary may be the last chance Republicans have to stop the former president from securing the nominationNew Hampshire will hold its first-in-the nation primary on Tuesday in what may be the last chance Republicans have to stop Donald Trump from running away with the nomination, as Nikki Haley chases an upset in the Granite state.Eight days after the former president’s record-setting...

The Florida governor, once billed as Trump without the baggage, ended up making a series of bad gamblesIt began in a glitch-filled disaster on Twitter. It ended with a misattributed quotation on X. Just like Elon Musk’s social media platform, efforts to rebrand Ron DeSantis’s US presidential election campaign could not mask its fundamental flaws.When in May the Florida governor announced his run during...

Haley needs a strong showing after Trump’s Iowa victory, but ex-president is running strong after picking up new endorsementThe New Hampshire primary campaign has entered its final days with an increasingly nasty tone as Nikki Haley and Donald Trump attacked each other amid yet more signs that Republicans are consolidating their support around the former US president as he secured a vital endorsement.On Friday...

ABC forced to cancel after Nikki Haley says she will not take part unless Trump, who has not participated so far, does the sameABC News has cancelled the next Republican presidential debate after Nikki Haley said she would not appear on stage unless Donald Trump takes part.Trump has refused to participate in any of the Republican primary debates so far, making Ron DeSantis the...

Former president a step closer to Joe Biden rematch, as Ron DeSantis edges out Nikki Haley for distant second place finishIowa caucus 2024 – full resultsDonald Trump has won an overwhelming victory in the US’s first election contest of 2024, easily fending off a winnowed field of Republicans in the Iowa caucuses.The Associated Press called the race for Trump rapidly, while caucusgoers in much...

In today’s newsletter: The first real results of the 2024 presidential campaign are a hammer blow to Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley• Sign up here for our daily newsletter, First EditionGood morning. Last night, the race for the US presidency formally started – and Donald Trump has won the first round by a landslide. With 99% of votes counted, Trump has 51% of Republican...

For some Americans, it’s a nightmare from which they cannot wake, but for others it’s a new chapter in the Maga sagaThere is a familiar scene in many a film where the protagonist jolts awake from a terrible nightmare, only to realise that he or she didn’t wake up at all: the nightmare continues.For the millions of Americans who abhor Donald Trump, there was...

Ex-president beats Republican rivals as DeSantis finishes a distant second, Haley slides into third place and Ramaswamy drops outIowa results tracker: how the candidates rankTrump wins in Iowa as contest kicks off 2024 election raceFlorida senator Marco Rubio formally endorsed Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign on Sunday, effectively snubbing his state’s own governor Ron DeSantis.In a social media post, Rubio cited his work with...

Donald Trump won early and Ron DeSantis’ investment in Iowa paid off but Nikki Haley has focused more on New HampshireThe Iowa caucuses took place on Martin Luther King Jr’s Day, a national holiday, while a raging winter storm swept through the region.But still many Iowans made it to their precinct to cast their vote in the first Republican state primary of the 2024...

Ex-president tries to walk fine line on issue, saying Republicans with extreme positions have been ‘decimated’ in electionsDonald Trump, the former US president, boasted about the “miracle” of ending the constitutional right to abortion but warned that Republicans who tout extreme bans are being “decimated” in elections.Trump was put on the spot on Wednesday during a Fox News town hall in Des Moines, Iowa,...