New Hampshire was viewed as a must-win for the Haley campaign after the former South Carolina governor spent more than $31,000,000 in the Granite State. She also devoted significant time and effort to rallies in the state.
Despite significant effort and help from Democrat voters, the race
was called for former President Trump less than a half hour after polls closed.
A CNN exit poll found that just 27 percent of Nikki Haley's New Hampshire Republican primary voters are actually Republicans.
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I think Nikki will stay in through the next primary, her home state of South Carolina.
So, if I can contextualize this, NH had an oddity in their voter registration. You can register Republican, you can register Democrat, and you can register Undeclared. If you are registered undeclared, you pick your ballot on primary day.
To further complicate this, a lot of people are upset that Biden/DNC are trying to usurp the first in the nation vote status and chose to vote accordingly by either voting for another Democrat or pulling the Republican ballot.
So, for example, I am undeclared, I chose a Democrat ballot, wrote in Biden, then to avoid being auto-registered by the party of the last ballot I took, I go to a table and re-declare my Undeclared status. I will vote for Biden in the final election.
My father, also Undeclared, pulled a Republican ballot and voted for Haley and promptly redeclared his Undeclared status. In the final election, he will also be voting for Biden regardless of the Republican nominee. He was upset at Biden and the DNC slight to our state and wanted to voice it by pulling the Republican ballot and voting for not Trump.
My husband, same deal, he pulled the Republican ballot (and wrote in “Walter Sobchak”) to voice his displeasure to the DNC. He will also vote for Biden in the final election.
So, despite the article being structured to seem like she pulled registered Democrats over to vote for her, the reality is she pulled a lot of Undeclared. And of those Undeclared, there’s a fair number who did the Republican ballot as part of a grassroots campaign to protest the DNC, not because they’ll ultimately vote that way.
The more interesting breakdown will be to see if there were more Republican ballots pulled than normal and, if so, how many were pulled to protest the DNC.