...and Trump hopes to pile up a massive win to add to his Iowa caucuses victory last week.
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2024 Republican candidates Donald Trump and Nikki Haley in Laconia and Salem, New Hampshire on Monday. |
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Donald Trump rolled into Tuesday's New Hampshire primary seeking to end the Republican race after only two nominating contests in record time. The former president made no secret of his desire to pile up a massive win to add to his Iowa caucuses victory last week that would leave his last remaining rival, Nikki Haley, reeling. "We started off with 13 (opponents) and now we are down to two people, and I think one person will be gone probably tomorrow," Trump said as he wrapped up his Granite State campaign at a rowdy rally in Laconia, New Hampshire on Monday night. You might wonder why he could claim the nomination after only two states weighed in. Well first, the rest of the GOP sees the writing on the wall, with key party officials racing to endorse him in hopes of credit from the famously transactional Trump. Furthermore, if Haley doesn't win in New Hampshire, where independent voters are allowed to vote in the GOP primary leading to a more moderate electorate, it's hard to see where she could beat Trump. Haley already looks shaky in her home state South Carolina, which has gone big for Trump in the last two elections and which holds the next big primary. Unless she can pull off a massive shock in New Hampshire's history of upsets, Haley will be on even thinner ice than that covering its frozen lakes, as a forecast warm snap drives away wintery weather. Haley spent all day insisting she wasn't going anywhere – however much Trump wants her gone. "I don't do what he tells me to do. I've never done what he tells me to do," Haley, who served under Trump as UN ambassador said. "I'm running against Donald Trump. And I'm not going to talk about an obituary. Just because y'all think we have to talk about it. I'm going to talk about running the tape and saving this country," Haley said. Everything depends on what the voters do. Watch and read CNN here to find out how New Hampshire votes. Meanwhile will have the full analysis tomorrow. |
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Turkey's parliament voted to approve Sweden's NATO membership bid, bringing it one step closer to joining the security alliance.
Twenty-four Israeli soldiers were killed in southern Gaza in the deadliest day for its troops inside the battered enclave since war with Hamas began.
And an Iranian protester with a mental health condition was executed over the death of a local official during mass demonstrations in 2022. Meanwhile in America, a federal appeals court ruled that Mexico can sue US gunmakers, after Mexico accused several brands of arming Mexican drug cartels and contributing to violence in the country.
The Los Angeles Times is laying off over 100 journalists. And disgraced lawmaker and accused fabulist George Santos appeared in federal court in New York. |
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A firetruck in Arnold, Missouri, seen spinning on ice on Monday. (Katelynn Voisey) |
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For Ukraine, help is not on the way |
A Ukrainian soldier sits near a trench candle at the frontline in Ukraine's snow-covered Serebryan forest on January 12.
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Ukraine's military supply situation is becoming increasingly perilous. And the help that it needs from the United States is stuck. On the front lines, Ukrainian troops are rationing the ammunition in their Western made weapons systems or are resorting to archaic Soviet era stock, even as relentless Russian attacks continue. Dozens of Bradley fighting vehicles have been damaged in fighting. "We have heard reports from the Ukrainian government that they have concerns … that they believe that units do not have the stocks and the stores of ammunition that they require," US assistant secretary of defense for international security affairs Dr. Celeste Wallander told reporters on Tuesday. The tens of billions of dollars in aid and supplies promised to Ukraine by President Joe Biden are blocked in Congress, where Republicans are using it as leverage to try to force the White House to adopt draconian immigration restrictions at the southern border. Even if the border imbroglio can be worked out, the chances of the Republican-led House passing significant aid for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky seem grim as scores of Republicans respond to Trump's opposition to more aid. Rookie House Speaker Mike Johnson could get a majority for a package if he used some Democratic votes – but he's unlikely to do that because it could cost him his job. And Senate Republican whip John Thune is arguing that all of Biden's proposed $61 billion package that does not fund lethal aid may need to be scaled back to try to open a narrow path to passage. Trump's fast rising power is very bad news for Kyiv. "The number one reason Republicans will not come out in favor of a supplemental to support Ukraine is that they don't want to offend candidate Trump and his supporters," Mike Quigley, the Democratic lawmaker who chairs the Congressional Ukraine Caucus, told CNN last week. If he wins the New Hampshire primary and becomes the effective GOP nominee on Tuesday night, nothing is going to get done by the House without the former president's endorsement. So New Hampshire Republicans aren't just voting for their own futures; Ukraine's is on the ballot as well. |
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