MANCHESTER, New Hampshire (Reuters) - Donald Trump didn’t just want to win in New Hampshire, he wanted to beat Nikki Haley so badly that his sole rival for the Republican presidential nomination would drop out before the next competitive contest in South Carolina a month away.

The former president easily bested the former South Carolina governor on Tuesday, but his carefully crafted strategy to drive Haley out of the race fell short, denying Trump the chance, for now, to focus all his attention on Democratic U.S. President Joe Biden and the November general election.

Trump, 77, was full of fury after Haley, 52, vowed in a Tuesday night speech to fight on, just two days after the other leading Republican contender, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, ended his campaign.

  • Chainweasel
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    5 months ago

    Can you imagine if half his face quit working? His goons have been trained over the years to see things like that as a sign of weakness. Look at how he’s depicted on his NFT trading cards, if he had a stroke and started slurring his speech and half his face started to sag they would eat him alive right then and there.
    He deserves much worse, but that kind of fall from grace in his party would be a good start.

    • @[email protected]
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      155 months ago

      They wouldn’t. They’ve already proven themselves more than capable of justifying Trump for the same shit they tear down others for. They got olympic medals in mental gymnastics, I don’t see a reason for that specific situation to throw them off

      • @[email protected]
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        35 months ago

        They 100% wouldn’t

        Idk in what world is that guy living in. Time and time again have they proven that. It’s a cult.

    • prole
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      15 months ago

      Lol nah… They’d sooner look for ways to paralyze half of their own face (it’ll have to be the right side, because that’s the side that froze on Trump, and it means blah blah blah) so they can be like their hero.