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Trump Prepares Push Against Haley in New Hampshire

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President Donald J. Trump and U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley arrive Monday, Sept. 24, 2018, to the United Nations Headquarters in New York City, where they participated in the Global Call to Action on the World Drug Problem. (Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead)

In The New York Sun, Russell Payne reports that the campaign for President Donald Trump is working to tamp down progress made by Ambassador Nikki Haley in New Hampshire’s primary GOP primary race. Payne writes:

President Trump’s campaign is moving to head off Ambassador Nikki Haley in New Hampshire as the state emerges as the most likely venue for a candidate to muster a real challenge to the former president, in a primary election increasingly dominated by Mr. Trump.

Nationwide, Mr. Trump’s support among GOP voters has only grown. FiveThirtyEight’s polling average shows that support for Mr. Trump in the GOP primary has risen to about 63 percent from about 53 percent six months ago.

At New Hampshire, though, a recent poll from CBS News and YouGov suggests that Ms. Haley is within 15 points of the former president, trailing him 29 percent to 44 percent in the field.

While FiveThirtyEight’s average is less favorable to Ms. Haley, showing her trailing Mr. Trump 19 percent to 44 percent, she is closer to the former president at New Hampshire than Governor DeSantis is in Iowa, where he trails Mr. Trump 20 percent to 50 percent.

Although a 15-point lead would be a landslide victory in most elections, in this Republican primary, Ms. Haley is coming closer to challenging Mr. Trump in New Hampshire than any candidate has come since early 2023, when it appeared Mr. DeSantis might be able to credibly challenge him.

In response to Ms. Haley’s relatively favorable polling in the Granite State, a super PAC supporting Mr. Trump has launched a new ad campaign against Ms. Haley there.

The ad, which first aired early Tuesday, attacks Ms. Haley for apparently changing her position on a gas tax between 2013 and 2015, fashioning the former ambassador as “Nikki ‘high tax’ Haley.”

The ad, bought by MAGA Inc., is the first that Mr. Trump’s supporters have placed against another candidate in New Hampshire since June, and it may demonstrate that the former president wants to lock down the nomination by ensuring wins in Iowa and New Hampshire, according to a political scientist at John Jay College, Brian Arbour.

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