After former President Trump secured a win in the GOP primary in New Hampshire on Tuesday night, President Biden set his sights on a 2020 presidential rematch.
“It is now clear that Donald Trump will be the Republican nominee. And my message to the country is the stakes could not be higher. Our Democracy. Our personal freedoms — from the right to choose to the right to vote. Our economy — which has seen the strongest recovery in the world since COVID. All are at stake,” Biden said in a Tuesday message to voters.
While Biden didn’t appear on the ballot in the Granite State, he nonetheless won the Democratic primary, with more than half of the state’s voters writing in his name on their ballots. He thanked voters for the “historic demonstration” of commitment to democracy and urged independent voters and Republicans to “join us as Americans.”
“Let’s remember. We are the United States of America. And there is nothing — nothing — we can’t do if we do it together,” Biden’s message said.
The Hill/Decision Desk HQ called the GOP race in Trump’s favor just after polls closed around 8 p.m. local time. With more than 170,000 votes pledged to him, Trump earned 54.6 percent support, beating out the only remaining GOP challenger, Nikki Haley, who earned 43.4 percent support.
Following his win, the Trump campaign emailed a statement that claimed “this race is over!” He thanked voters for their support throughout “every single witch hunt, raid, indictment and arrest.” In a celebratory speech after his win, Trump mocked Haley for her post-primary speech in which she said the race wasn’t over yet.
In an interview with Fox News Digital, Trump urged the former South Carolina governor to suspend her campaign, because if she stays in, “We have to keep wasting money instead of spending on Biden.”
Despite losing to Trump in both Iowa and New Hampshire, Haley said she wasn’t giving up yet.
“New Hampshire is first in the nation. It is not the last in the nation,” she said Tuesday. “This race is far from over. There are dozens of states left to go.”
According to national polling averages, Trump has a 1.3-percent lead over Biden in a hypothetical general election match-up.