Brandon Livesay
US reporter

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Voters sided with Donald Trump, Nikki Haley refused to call it quits, and Joe Biden is preparing for a rematch of the 2020 election.

A lot happened in the past 24 hours in the New Hampshire primary, but those headlines all feel strangely familiar.

So where do we go from here?

The Republican presidential nomination is still a race between Trump and Haley, but Haley will need an incredible change in momentum to have any chance at reeling in the former president's huge lead.

The next major test is the South Carolina primary on 24 February.

If you want some extra analysis on what happened in New Hampshire, our correspondent Anthony Zurcher has written this detailed article.

And Holly Honderich has looked at who could be Trump's vice president if he wins it all.

That's a wrap of our live coverage. Thanks for following along with us.

If you're just joining us, here's a brief recap of what's happened and where things stand:

• After winning the New Hampshire primary, Donald Trump has lashed out angrily at Nikki Haley for staying in the race
• Trump's surrogates and other senior Republicans have been making the rounds on US media, calling on the party to unify behind Trump and for Haley to abandon her campaign
• Haley and her allies have vowed to continue fighting, arguing that she has the best chance of beating Joe Biden in a general election
• Trump is now turning his sights to Nevada, where he is the only major figure to remain for the state's 8 February contest
• The Haley campaign is turning its efforts to fundraising and drumming up support ahead of South Carolina's primary later in February

Bernd Debusmann Jr
US Reporter

Donald Trump's next campaign event is schedule for 27 January in Las Vegas, Nevada - which is gearing up for its own Republican caucus on February 8.

His caucus victory is essentially assured - he is the only major candidate in the contest.

That's because Nikki Haley is registered to run in Nevada's state-administered presidential primary - which, according to Nevada's Republican party rules, makes her ineligible for the caucus.

So Trump and Haley aren't actually competing with one another in Nevada, despite being the only two Republican candidates left. And Haley will skip campaigning in Nevada to focus on South Carolina.

The state's Republican party has come under intense criticism for its decision to hold a caucus, with some accusing it of doing so to help Trump's re-election bid.

Others have warned that the two-tiered contest may confuse voters, particularly as Trump will not appear on the primary ballot.

Morgan Gisholt Minard
Reporting from Manchester, New Hampshire

Republican pollster Frank Luntz tells the BBC he wouldn’t be surprised to see Nikki Haley drop out of the race in the next 48-72 hours.

New Hampshire was her best shot, he says.

“Donald Trump’s support is so hardcore, so passionate, so driven by him, that [voters] aren’t looking for anyone else,” he says.

“Make no mistake, Nikki Haley is a better candidate against Joe Biden. But first she has to get through Donald Trump, and that doesn't look likely at all.

"She draws independents, she draws moderates, she draws people who voted for Joe Biden in 2020 but want to change. He does not," Lutz says, adding: "but she can't get to the election until she gets past the primary. And I don't know how she does that.”

In a month’s time, voters in Haley’s home state of South Carolina will turn out, but Trump is currently beating her there in polls by a two-to-one margin.

“I don’t even want to talk about what comes after that. Because it’s not going to matter. Donald Trump may have the election sewed up in the next 48 hours. But if not now, he’ll have it sewed up in the next 48 days," Lutz says.

Trump shares AI-generated image of himself prayingpublished at 16:12 Greenwich Mean Time 24 January

16:12 GMT 24 January

On his social media platform Truth Social, Donald Trump has shared an image of himself praying in a church.

It is easily recognisable that the image is generated by AI, as Trump has six fingers on his right hand.

While AI-generated images are becoming much more realistic, the technology still struggles with the number of human fingers or toes, realistic hair lines, accurate facial tones and backgrounds in images that it generates.

But the technology is rapidly improving, and telling the difference between whether an image is real or fake will become increasingly difficult - even for experts.

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Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel has called on the party's members to rally around Donald Trump.

Speaking to CNN earlier this morning, McDaniel said that while she believes Nikki Haley ran "a great campaign", her loss in New Hampshire to Trump is a "very clear" message from voters.

"We need to unite around our eventual nominee, which is Donald Trump, and we need to make sure we beat Joe Biden," she said. "We need to do everything we can to unite so that we can defeat him."

McDaniel did not give a direct answer when asked if she believes that Haley should drop out of the race, saying only that she needs to "reflect" on "the most important thing going forward".

Donald Trump has had time to rethink his approach since he was last in office.

The former US president now takes the counsel of trusted loyalists with serious Republican campaigning credentials.

Meanwhile, the team of big egos who were part of his team in 2016 have moved to the periphery. But who is the 2024 team behind Trump? Is he listening to them? And will this alter the Trump we see this year?

North America correspondent Anthony Zurcher and US special correspondent Katty Kay break it all down in the latest episode of The Global Story, which you can listen to here.

Why it could matter that independents chose Haley in New Hampshirepublished at 15:15 Greenwich Mean Time 24 January

15:15 GMT 24 January

Kayla Epstein
Reporting from New Hampshire

In his first interview since dropping out of the race, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis had a warning for Trump.

“People come up to me who… have been conservative their whole life, say that they don't want to vote for Trump again," he told the The Steve Deace show on Tuesday before polls closed. “'He’s got to figure out a way to solve that.”

What DeSantis is hinting at, is that while Trump has his supporters locked down, he might have issues with voters not enthralled by his brand of politics.

Trump won the New Hampshire Republican primary by energising his base, but granular data shows he under-performed with independent voters.

Six in 10 of independent voters chose Nikki Haley on Tuesday night, according to an exit poll by CBS News, external.

It wasn't enough for her to win, and let's be clear: Trump did better than Haley with registered Republicans.

But 73% of voters who considered themselves “moderate” chose Haley, as did 65% of people who did not identify with Trump’s “Make America Great Again” movement.

This could matter beyond New Hampshire. In a general election, you have to make your pitch to everybody, not just your base.

And swing voters can make or break a presidential campaign.

Bernd Debusmann Jr
US Reporter

Despite his win in New Hampshire, Donald Trump has barely been able to contain his anger at the continued opposition of Nikki Haley as he works to secure the Republican nomination.

In a fiery victory speech last night in New Hampshire, Trump referred to her as an "imposter" who "went up on the stage before, and like, claimed a victory".

Trump added that despite a "bad night" Haley is "still hanging around".

"I don't get too angry. I get even," he warned.

Chris LaCivita, a senior Republican strategist helping the Trump campaign, also mocked her as "delusional".

Trump has also repeatedly attacked Haley on his Truth Social social media platform after his victory, calling her "birdbrain" and re-posting criticism of her from conservative media outlets.

Bernd Debusmann Jr
US Reporter

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After her second-place finish in the New Hampshire primary, Nikki Haley is reportedly focusing on meeting with wealthy donors ahead of the South Carolina primary.

According to a Bloomberg report, external, Haley's fundraising efforts will begin with a New Hampshire event being planned by billionaires Stanley Druckenmiller, Henry Kravis, Ken Langone and Cliff Asness.

Tickets for the event reportedly start at $3,300 (£2,585) and go as high as $33,200.

After the event, Haley will reportedly also meet with other donors in Florida, California and Texas.

The Haley campaign took in a total of $24m in the fourth quarter of 2023.

In November, Haley was also endorsed by the Charles Koch-affiliated Americans for Prosperity Action, the first-time the well-funded group has publicly supported a Republican candidate in the primaries.

Bernd Debusmann Jr
US Reporter

Now that the primary in New Hampshire is over, both Nikki Haley and Donald Trump are pivoting their attention elsewhere.

On Wednesday, Haley is headed back to South Carolina, the state in which she was twice elected Governor and where she will face off against Donald Trump again in February.

Her efforts to woo voters will continue tonight with a rally in Charleston. Her campaign is already airing ads in the state which say: “Biden too old. Trump too much chaos".

Trump, for his part, is turning his focus this week to New York, where court proceedings for his defamation case are expected to resume on Thursday. It is unclear if he will testify.

Then Trump will be campaigning in Nevada, which is the next vote on the Republican calendar. But the two candidates will not face each other in a head-to-head match-up there, Haley is skipping Nevada.

That makes South Carolina's 24 February primary their next major contest.

New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu, a Nikki Haley supporter, has just been chatting to Fox about why she is staying in the race.

Sununu says Haley has the strongest chances of beating Joe Biden in the 2024 election, saying Donald Trump would be in a "nail-biter" if he is the nominee.

He says despite Trump's clear win in New Hampshire, Haley is the Republican party's best bet moving forward.

He also says that if Vivek Ramaswamy and Ron DeSantis did not drop out of the race, "there's an argument" that Haley could have won New Hampshire - insinuating their supporters went on to back Trump.

Sununu says the Haley campaign will continue to fight and points out there are more primaries to come.

Natalie Sherman
New York business reporter

Donald Trump's media company, Trump Media, has been flirting with financial demise for years.

But investors are newly willing to bet on its prospects, as the former president proves his popularity among Republicans in the primaries.

Shares in Digital World Acquisition Corp, the publicly traded company that has proposed to merge with Truth Social, have more than doubled since the start of the year, shooting up after his win in the Iowa caucus and again over the weekend as another potential rival, Florida governor Ron DeSantis, dropped out.

They were trading at about $50 per share when markets closed yesterday, up from about $17 at the start of year (that's still far below the more than $90 they fetched in 2021 when the plans were first announced).

The merger with Digital World would provide Trump Media with some badly needed cash.

It had been stalled by a number of government investigations but those have been resolved, and Digital World said recently it had set a deadline to complete the deal by June.

Dean Phillips is a name that had a bit of a spike in Google's search trends yesterday. He's a Democrat from Minnesota who is running against Joe Biden.

In New Hampshire's primary, he had about 20% of the votes to Biden's 51%. But it's more complicated than that. Biden wasn't officially on the ballot because of drama between the Democratic National Committee and New Hampshire (you can read about that here).

Phillips was just on Fox and Friends to plead his case as a viable option in the 2024 presidential election.

"It's time for a new generation... that's my proposition. And I do think the country is ready for it. I just think that political duopoly is preventing what most Americans want," he says.

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We just heard from Maryland's Governor Wes Moore, a key surrogate and alley of US President Joe Biden.

Speaking to CNN, Moore said it has now become clear to the Democratic Party establishment that "Nikki Haley is not going to be the Republican nominee", setting up a rematch of the 2020 election between Biden and Donald Trump.

"[She] spent the past few weeks campaigning heavily, and lost... to a person who didn't really campaign," he said.

He added that he believes Biden's own write-in victory in New Hampshire bodes well for his electoral campaign.

"The people of New Hampshire saw what people around the country are seeing... that the policies of President Biden are working," he said.

"I feel very good about his re-election prospects."

South Carolina Senator and Donald Trump supporter Tim Scott is doing the rounds on morning TV.

He's currently on CBS Mornings, where he says the campaign was no longer against Nikki Haley, and that the priority is shifting to the November election.

"We should start focusing our attention on the contrast between four years of Joe Biden versus Donald Trump," he said.

When asked if he wanted to be Trump's running mate and potential vice president, he refused to directly answer the question.

Host Gayle King asked him the same question repeatedly, but he would not be drawn into the discussion.

Scott is also scheduled to appear on Fox and Friends later.

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As his victory became clear overnight, Donald Trump took to his Truth Social social media to take aim at Nikki Haley, angry at her continued opposition to his nomination.

In a series of posts on Tuesday night and Wednesday morning, Trump repeatedly referred to Haley as "birdbrain" - a nickname he has often repeated since last year.

"A very bad night for Nikki 'Birdbrain' Haley, but not as bad as last week in Iowa, where she came in a DISTANT THIRD," he wrote in one post. "Next week, in the Nevada Caucus, she didn't want to play because of her bad polling."

Haley is essentiall skipping Nevada to campaign in South Carolina, where she was once governor.

In another post on Wednesday morning - after Haley vowed that "this race is far from over" - Trump again mocked Haley.

"Can somebody please explain to Nikki Haley that she lost - and lost really badly," he wrote. "She also lost Iowa, BIG, last week. They were, as certain non-fake media says, "CRUSHING DEFEATS."

Bernd Debusmann Jr
US reporter

Image source, Getty Images

Good morning from the US, where most people are just waking up after the New Hampshire primary.

If you're just joining us, let's have a quick look and what happened last night.

• Donald Trump has won New Hampshire's presidential primary - his second victory after trouncing his Republican competitors in Iowa last week.
• With just over 90% of the votes in, Trump has about a 12-point lead over former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley.
• US President Joe Biden say it is "now clear" that Trump will be the Republican nominee, setting up a rematch of the 2020 presidential race.
• Haley, however, has vowed to fight on, telling supporters that "this race is far from over".
• Trump has reacted angrily, taking to social media to mock Haley for "crushing defeats" in Iowa and New Hampshire.

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Katty Kay
US special correspondent

The presidential election is not just being watched in the US, but around the world.

The US is currently involved in two hot wars, Ukraine and Gaza. Meanwhile, US-China relations have deteriorated and tensions in the Asia Pacific region have risen.

Closer to home, Central American nations are under the spotlight as a growing number of migrants are trying to get to the US through a border which seems more porous by the day. And there have been US-led air strikes against the Houthis in Yemen.

There is almost no area of the world where American leadership doesn't matter.

The prospect of Republican Donald Trump returning to office, with his America First foreign policy agenda, adds more uncertainty to an already tumultuous picture.

Some countries look forward to his return. But many of America's allies are more fearful about the possible comeback of an unorthodox president they found hard to deal with the first time around.

• Read the full story here

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