I think we're seeing some of that decline," she told CBS. "He's just not at the same level he was at 2016. Haley, who served as UN ambassador under Trump, has turned on her old boss sharply in recent days, pointing to a series of bizarre stumbles during his speeches as a sign he is losing mental competence. Trump separately faces serious criminal prosecutions, including over his alleged attempt to overthrow the results of the 2020 election which he lost to Biden. Jean Carroll, a successful writer, seeking more than $10 million in damages for defamation by Trump, whom another New York civil jury found liable for sexual assault against her. The postponed New York civil trial features E. That message resonates with Republican right-wingers, who are key to winning the party nomination. The plan to begin the day by attending the defamation trial - and possibly taking the witness stand - highlighted Trump's strategy of attempting to transform his legal morass into a political grandstand. "But now is the time for the Republican Party to come together." "Now we are down to two people, and I think one person will be gone probably tomorrow, and the other one will be gone in November," Trump told the Laconia crowd. Haley, a former South Carolina governor who at 52 is 25 years Trump's junior, is the sole challenger after Florida Governor Ron DeSantis dropped out over the weekend.īut unless she pulls off a political miracle, Trump is seen as likely to repeat his domination in the first contest in Iowa, then cruise through the remaining primaries to become the nominee to face President Joe Biden in November's election. The event came with a new Washington Post/Monmouth poll showing Trump, 77, backed by 52 percent in New Hampshire to Haley's 34 percent. "Tomorrow we're going to win New Hampshire and then we're going to defeat crooked Joe Biden and we are going to make America great again," he said to cheers from a small but raucous crowd, as he called Vivek Ramaswamy, Doug Burgum and Tim Scott on stage. Several of Trump's former primary rivals campaigned with him at an intimate rally in the New Hampshire town of Laconia as the ex-president sought to present a united front against Haley in his last event before voting centers open. The New Hampshire primary is seen as the last, best chance for Haley to stop Trump.ĭespite being twice impeached as president and now facing four criminal cases, he has succeeded in imposing his hard-right brand on the entire Republican Party. However, with one juror reporting sickness, the trial was postponed to Wednesday. Trump spent the first part of the day in New York where he'd been planning to attend his sexual assault defamation trial - part of a strategy of embracing the scandal swirling around him. Donald Trump held a final rally Monday in New Hampshire on the eve of the primary where polls show him likely to trounce the sole remaining challenger, Nikki Haley, for the Republican presidential nomination.
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