Summary

  • Donald Trump has won the New Hampshire Republican presidential primary - the second state contest to find the party's presidential candidate

  • Nikki Haley vowed to fight on despite her loss, causing Trump to fume in his victory speech that his last remaining rival is an "imposter"

  • Surrogates for Trump and Haley and have been appearing on US media and are shifting focus to their chances against Democrat Joe Biden

  • President Biden says it is "now clear" that Trump will become the Republican nominee in the election

  • But Trump and Haley will continue to battle it out for the nomination, and South Carolina is the next big vote in February

  • Americans will vote in November and the presidential contest is looking increasingly likely to be a Trump-Biden rematch

  1. Trump wins, Haley vows to keep on - what you need to knowpublished at 05:57 Greenwich Mean Time 24 January

    Good morning to those in the UK who are just waking up to the news that Donald Trump has had another resounding win in his race to become the Republican candidate in November's White House election.

    How big is his win? Not all the votes have yet been counted, but Trump has a lead of about 10 points.

    What's Haley saying? Speaking after the first projections came in, Haley insisted she was staying in the race, saying it was "far from over" with "dozens of states left to go".

    "I'm a fighter. And I'm scrappy. And now we're the last ones standing next to Donald Trump. We still have a ways to go, but we keep moving up," she said.

    What about Trump? In his victory speech on Tuesday night, Trump told his rally that Haley "had a very bad night" and was "doing a speech like she'd won" when she lost.

    He also brought on two of his defeated rivals - Vivek Ramaswamy and Tim Scott - both of whom gave rousing speeches to the roaring crowd.

    What happens to Haley now? As we explore here, Haley campaigned hard in New Hampshire, trying to get both independent and moderate Republican voters to back her - but she was unable to catch up with Trump.

    As our North America editor writes, behind closed doors her team and her donors will be frantically deciding whether it is worth continuing this campaign.

    If Haley couldn’t defeat Trump in New Hampshire, with all its moderate Republicans and independent voters, how can she expect to fare better in more conservative territory? The conservative voters in upcoming states will only make things more difficult.

    Read the latest from our North America correspondent Anthony Zurcher here.

  2. Fourth time's the charm for Joe Bidenpublished at 05:48 Greenwich Mean Time 24 January

    Sam Cabral
    US reporter

    Joe Biden at a campaign rally in Manassas, VirginiaImage source, Getty Images

    The irony of Joe Biden's win tonight in New Hampshire's Democratic primary is that, in four presidential bids, he has never tried so little to win.

    In his first White House campaign in 1988, Biden - then a young senator from Delaware - dropped out of the race before the New Hampshire primary after he was accused of plagiarism.

    He did the same again in 2008, unable to compete with the likes of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.

    Then, in 2020, after finishing fourth in the Iowa caucus, Biden came in fifth in New Hampshire - twin disasters that had pundits urging the former vice-president to drop out.

    But Biden reversed his fortunes with a big victory in South Carolina and went on to win the Democratic nomination.

    He has since rewarded South Carolina by pushing his party to bump the state's election to the top of the primary calendar - although this sparked a row with New Hampshire, which led to Biden not appearing on Tuesday's primary ballot and meaning the results effectively do not matter. (More on the row here.)

    Though the president did not campaign here, his allies nonetheless launched a campaign to write in his name. With his projected victory, Biden becomes the first person since 1968 to win the New Hampshire primary by write-in.

  3. Ex-Congressman George Santos spotted at New Hampshire Trump partypublished at 05:03 Greenwich Mean Time 24 January

    Santos, a Republican from Long Island, was seen taking selfies with other Trump supportersImage source, Getty Images
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    Santos, from Long Island, was seen taking selfies with other Trump supporters

    Disgraced ex-congressman George Santos made an unexpected appearance at Donald Trump's official election watch party.

    Santos was kicked out of the House of Representatives last year after a damning House ethics report accused him of fraud and lies - and he's facing dozens of federal charges, including wire fraud and aggravated identity theft. (More on him here).

    He's under travel restrictions due to the case, so how was he able to get to New Hampshire?

    A government source familiar with the matter told CBS News, the BBC's US partner, that Santos was given clearance to travel outside of the New York-area. They said Santos gave the necessary notifications to the justice department and the court system did not stop him from making the journey.

  4. Trump leads by 10 points, with 70% of votes countedpublished at 04:42 Greenwich Mean Time 24 January

    More than two-thirds of the vote has now been counted in the New Hampshire Republican primary.

    Donald Trump, the projected winner, is maintaining his lead of about 10 points or so.

    With 70% of votes now counted, the former president is up 54.4% to Nikki Haley's 43.6%.

    70% of votes counted in New Hampshire
  5. What's the latest?published at 04:24 Greenwich Mean Time 24 January

    Former U.S. President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks on stage during a New Hampshire presidential primary election night watch party, in Nashua, New Hampshire, U.S., January 23, 2024.Image source, Reuters
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    Trump HQ in Nashua, New Hampshire was a scene of jubilation

    So we've had the projections - and Donald Trump is expected to have won New Hampshire's primary, the second contest in his bid to become the Republican nominee for president. Here's the latest:

  6. Haley as Trump's running mate? This voter hopes sopublished at 04:09 Greenwich Mean Time 24 January

    Kayla Epstein
    Reporting from New Hampshire

    Miranda Blair
    Image caption,

    Miranda Blair didn't vote for Trump in 2016 but she is this time round

    Miranda Blair, the New Hampshire voter we met outside a Trump rally earlier this week, tells me she's “elated” the former president won. Still, she admits she found Nikki Haley's speech tonight impressive.

    Blair suggests it might be a good idea for Trump to pick Haley as his running mate. In fact, she thinks it makes her preferred candidate stronger.

    “It could be a way for Trump to unite the party, which he knows he needs to do," she says. "It could allow for him to move those independent voters over.”

    While some Trump voters here tell me they didn’t believe Haley was conservative enough, Blair believes they will come around if Trump gave her a stamp of approval.

    More here about why voters like Blair are backing Trump.

  7. Where things stand in New Hampshirepublished at 03:41 Greenwich Mean Time 24 January

    More than half of the votes in New Hampshire have now been counted.

    Donald Trump, the projected winner, is leading his rival Nikki Haley by roughly 10 points.

    There are 22 delegates up for grabs in New Hampshire.

    CBS News, the BBC's US partner, estimates that Trump will pick up at least 12 delegates - a majority - while Haley is on track to gain at least nine. That brings Trump's total up to 32 and Haley's to 17.

    The eventual Republican nominee must secure 1,215 delegates.

    The vote count so far
  8. Analysis

    This time, Trump's victory speech is less magnanimouspublished at 03:30 Greenwich Mean Time 24 January

    Anthony Zurcher
    BBC North America correspondent, in New Hampshire

    Donald Trump has given two victory speeches in the course of eight days. His remarks to a crowd of supporters in New Hampshire tonight was markedly different from those he gave in Iowa last Monday, however.

    The former president opened tonight by lashing out at his one remaining opponent, Nikki Haley, who had spoken to her supporters shortly before Trump took the stage.

    “She's doing like a speech like she won,” he said. “She didn't win. She lost.”

    Back in Iowa, Trump was much more magnanimous, calling for party unity and praising his rivals as being smart and capable.

    Such niceties were abandoned this time around, as the former president’s speech meandered between boasts of poll numbers and attacks on Haley.

    “We’ll see you on the trail,” Trump concluded, perhaps a bit irked that the primary campaign may stretch on a bit longer than he had hoped coming into today.

  9. 'I just love you!' - two defeated Trump rivals chime inpublished at 03:17 Greenwich Mean Time 24 January

    Sam Cabral
    US reporter

    Vivek Ramaswamy, Tim Scott and Donald TrumpImage source, Getty Images
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    Potential running mates? Vivek Ramaswamy and Tim Scott with Donald Trump

    To drive home the message that Republicans are now coalescing behind him, Trump also called on two of his defeated rivals - Vivek Ramaswamy and Tim Scott - to say a few words.

    Ramaswamy endorsed Trump immediately after finishing fourth in Iowa and dropping out of the race, while Scott endorsed Trump on Friday in a last-minute show of support before tonight's primary.

    Trump said that Ramaswamy "got to know [Haley] very well" - presumably through their feisty interactions in debates.

    "What we saw tonight is America First defeating America Last," Ramaswamy said to cheers.

    Asking Tim Scott to chime in as well, Trump noted Scott is not only the senator for Haley's home state of South Carolina - but that Haley appointed him when she was governor.

    "You must really hate her," he prodded. A grinning Scott grabbed the mic to reply: "I just love you!"

  10. Analysis

    How much longer can Haley stay in the race?published at 03:00 Greenwich Mean Time 24 January

    Sarah Smith
    North America editor

    Is it just a matter of time before Nikki Haley pulls out and hands the Republican crown to Trump?

    Haley insisted tonight that she plans to carry on - describing herself as “scrappy” and “a fighter”.

    She has already announced a campaign stop in Charleston, South Carolina, tomorrow. Clearly her final New Hampshire speech is designed to send the message that she isn’t giving up.

    But behind closed doors her team and her donors will be frantically deciding whether it is worth continuing this campaign.

    If Haley couldn’t defeat Trump in New Hampshire, with all its moderate Republicans and independent voters, how can she expect to fare better in more conservative territory?

    She spent the vast majority of her time in Iowa and New Hampshire - not to mention tens of millions of dollars - and came up short. The conservative voters in upcoming states will only make things more difficult.

    It would be especially embarrassing for Haley if she is defeated in her home state of South Carolina – the next significant primary contest - on 24 February.

    Losing in the place where she once served as governor would be hard to recover from. To protect her future political ambitions, Haley may well choose to retire from this race before she faces Palmetto state voters.

  11. Trump attacks Biden as 'worst president'published at 02:48 Greenwich Mean Time 24 January

    Media caption,

    Trump digs at Haley after winning New Hampshire

    More now from Donald Trump's victory speech, where he criticises his likely Democratic opponent, Joe Biden, as faring more poorly in his term than the worst 10 presidents combined.

    Trump, 77, claims Biden, 81, cannot put two sentences together or find his own way off a stage.

    The former president also takes aim at those backing Biden over him, suggesting "they must hate our country".

    "If we don't win, this country is finished," he says.

    He makes a few parting shots at Nikki Haley, and says he's looking forward to the next two contests in the Republican primary, especially the one in Haley's home state of South Carolina.

  12. Trump: Haley's had a very bad nightpublished at 02:31 Greenwich Mean Time 24 January

    Trump takes the stage in New HampshireImage source, Reuters
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    Trump also used his victory speech to repeat his false claim that he won the 2020 election

    Donald Trump takes the stage in Nashua, New Hampshire to cheers of "USA!"

    The former president calls New Hampshire a "fantastic" state. He says Nikki Haley has "had a very bad night" - but is "still hanging around" and taking victory laps despite losing.

    "She pretended she won Iowa," he says. "I looked around and said, didn't she come in third?"

    Trump also attacks Haley's chief supporter, New Hampshire's sitting governor John Sununu, mocking him for claiming Haley would win in his state.

  13. Big smiles and relief for Trump fanspublished at 02:21 Greenwich Mean Time 24 January

    Kayla Epstein
    Reporting from New Hampshire

    Don Spellman, Leslie Spellman, Kate Upham, Lou Upham
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    Don Spellman, Leslie Spellman, Kate Upham and Lou Upham said they were relieved by the primary results.

    Here at this Republican watch party in Manchester, New Hampshire, I spoke to a quartet of Rhode Island residents and Donald Trump super fans who drove up here for a recent rally. They're thrilled the former president won.

    “I’m not surprised, but relieved,” says Leslie Spellman, who's wearing a red, white, and blue scarf.

    The group sees the win in New Hampshire as the final hurdle Trump had to clear to the nomination, and "now we just roll on and take America back", Spellman says.

    Her friend, Lou Upham, says the group’s next trip will be to Washington, DC - for Trump’s inauguration next year.

  14. 'The race is over!' - Trump posts online ahead of victory speechpublished at 02:15 Greenwich Mean Time 24 January

    We'll shortly be hearing from Donald Trump, who's going to speak to his supporters after his victory any moment now.

    But he's already been posting on his Truth Social platform, where he mocked Nikki Haley as "DELUSIONAL".

    "Haley said she had to WIN in New Hampshire. SHE DIDN’T!!!" he said in another post.

    And a fundraising email just sent to supporters by the Trump campaign reads: "The race is over!! I just won the New Hampshire primary, and I delivered BACK TO BACK landslide victories."

    You can watch along to Trump by clicking the Play button above.

  15. Biden: Trump has all but locked up his nominationpublished at 02:10 Greenwich Mean Time 24 January

    We've just heard from President Joe Biden's re-election campaign, who says the result in New Hampshire is evidence that "Donald Trump has all but locked up the GOP nomination, and the election denying, anti-freedom MAGA movement has completed its takeover of the Republican Party".

    "Trump is offering Americans the same extreme agenda that has cost Republicans election after election: promising to undermine American democracy, reward the wealthy on the backs of the middle class, and ban abortion nationwide," Biden's campaign manager Julie Chavez Rodriguez says in a statement.

    Rodriguez also notes that Trump now appears to be "headed straight into a general election match-up where he’ll face the only person to have ever beaten him at the ballot box”.

    Biden is projected to win the Democrat primary, the BBC's US partner CBS is projecting.

  16. 'I'm disappointed' - independent voter on Trump's victorypublished at 01:52 Greenwich Mean Time 24 January

    Kayla Epstein
    Reporting from New Hampshire

    A lot had been made of the importance of independent voters, who in New Hampshire are free to vote in either party. Haley and her backers made a big push for them here.

    Frank Carpentino, 64, who watched the results come in at The Goat, a bar here in Manchester, is exactly the kind of voter Haley was trying to persuade.

    He’s an independent who voted for Donald Trump in 2016 and Joe Biden in 2020. He says he was disappointed by both men.

    As he pays his bill, he admits he is disappointed by this result. He was hoping for a longer night, and even a Haley win.

    Still, he holds out hope that - while Trump might win - the margin of victory will tighten. "It’ll be closer," he says.

  17. Analysis

    What does this mean for Haley?published at 01:49 Greenwich Mean Time 24 January

    Anthony Zurcher
    BBC North America correspondent

    New Hampshire was Nikki Haley’s best shot to disrupt Donald Trump's steady march toward the Republican presidential nomination. She came up short, even if she appears to have avoided a predicted Trump blowout.

    Haley spent tens of millions of dollars here, but the state’s independent voters and large proportion of college graduates weren’t enough to deliver victory.

    In a speech to supporters on Tuesday night, Haley said that the race “is far from over”, pointing to the primary in her home state of South Carolina a month away. To get there, however, she’ll need campaign contributions to keep flowing. Despite a better-than-expected finish, that is no guarantee, given that her long odds of winning the nomination just got longer.

    If she does stay afloat, she may not get a particularly warm homecoming. Trump has the endorsement of most of South Carolina’s Republican establishment, and he has a commanding lead in the polls.

    A drubbing on her old stomping grounds would be an ignominious way to end what has been as relatively successful campaign –a fate she may ultimately choose to avoid. But she has a month to try to turn that around.

  18. Independents came out in big numbers tonightpublished at 01:48 Greenwich Mean Time 24 January

    Sam Cabral
    US reporter

    We've got some more exit polling insights to bring you from our US partners at CBS News, who have projected a Trump win.

    The data indicates New Hampshire independents have come out in large numbers tonight - both in comparison to typical turnout in the state and to Iowa last week.

    Many of these independent voters are breaking for Trump's rival, Nikki Haley, by a nearly two-to-one margin.

    But it is important to note that while New Hampshire's electorate is not as conservative as Iowa's, Trump still leads by massive margins with very conservative voters: white evangelicals, those without a college degree and those who identify as part of the 'Make America Great Again' movement.

  19. Democrats want Trump as the candidate because he's beatable - Haleypublished at 01:44 Greenwich Mean Time 24 January

    Media caption,

    Haley congratulates Trump, but says race is not over

    More now from Nikki Haley, who was just speaking to her supporters. She congratulated her opponent, but also repeated her case that now is the time for Republicans to move on from the former president.

    "The worst kept secret in politics is how badly the Democrats want to run against Donald Trump," she told the crowd.

    "They know Trump is the only Republican in the country who Joe Biden can defeat."

    Haley also reiterated her argument that she is more electable than Trump, accusing him of "one bout of chaos after another" and claiming his mental acuity is declining with age.

    "Most Americans do not want a rematch between Biden and Trump," said Haley, 52. "The first party to retire their 80-year-old candidate will win."

  20. Haley: I'm a fighter and I'm scrappy - this race is far from overpublished at 01:30 Greenwich Mean Time 24 January

    Nikki Haley speaking in New HampshireImage source, Getty Images
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    Haley says Trump "earned" his victory "and I want to acknowledge that"

    Nikki Haley is speaking to supporters in New Hampshire, following projections that Trump has won the state.

    She congratulates Donald Trump for his victory, saying "he earned it and I want to acknowledge that".

    But she vows to fight on. "New Hampshire is first in the nation. It is not the last," she says.

    "This race is far from over. There are dozens of state left to go."

    The next contest, Haley notes with a smile, is her home state of South Carolina, where she served two terms as governor.

    "I'm a fighter and I'm scrappy, and now we're the last one standing next to Donald Trump," she says.

    "We have a way to go but we keep moving up."