The former US ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley will campaign today in New Hampshire, hoping to stop Donald Trump’s march for the Republican nomination in the run-up to the US presidential election, pulling off the upset with a victory in the primary election to be held tomorrow, Tuesday, in the state.

Eight days after his sweeping victory in Iowain the first U.S. primary for the Republican nomination, the former president aims to deliver a fatal blow to Haley’s campaign with another landslide victory.

The race for the Republican Party’s nomination has turned into a duel between the two candidates after Florida governor Ron DeSandis dropped out of the race on Sunday after months of battling with Haley to become the party’s top alternative candidate. Trump.

For Haley, New Hampshire represents perhaps her last chance to show that the Republican base intends to choose someone other than Trump, who maintains his lead among the party faithful despite the 91 felony charges he faces. He has pleaded not guilty to all the crimes he is accused of and claims to be the victim of politically motivated prosecutions.

The state’s large number of independent voters allowed to vote in tomorrow’s Republican primary makes New Hampshire a friendlier field for Haley afrom the more conservative Iowa.

However, Trump maintains a double-digit lead in most statewide polls. Although DeSandis only had a 6% approval rating, he said on his way out that he was backing Trump for the party’s nomination, and pollsters say his supporters are more likely to shift their support to Trump.

A victory for Haley in New Hampshire could give her campaign the boost — and funding — it needs ahead of the next GOP primary on February 24 in South Carolina, of which she has been a two-term governor. But a Trump victory will reinforce the sense of inevitability he seeks to create for his candidacy.

The winner of the Republican primary will face President Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic nominee, in November’s presidential election.

As the two Republican rivals square off in New Hampshire, Biden and his running mate Kamala Harris will launch a series of events aimed at flagging Republican-backed abortion restrictions, which are generally opposed by Democrats.

Today marks 51 years since Roe v. Wade, which established women’s right to abortion nationwide, until it was overturned by the Supreme Court in 2022, shocking Democratic voters.

Trump will appear at his trial

In a reminder of the myriad legal woes he faces, Trump will spend the morning in a New York courtroom where a federal judge is hearing a defamation suit against him by author Jean Carroll, who claims he raped her decades ago.

Trump, who has accused Carroll of making up the story she to promote her memoir, can testify for the first time today. As with the criminal cases against him, which he often uses to raise funds, in this civil trial Trump has portrayed the case as part of a larger conspiracy by liberal forces aimed at derailing his candidacy.

Last May, another court ordered Trump to pay $5 million in damages to Carroll, ruling that he sexually assaulted her in a department store and that he defamed her when she denied it happened. Trump called the decision a “disgrace”.

Later in the day he will travel to New Hampshire for a final campaign rally in the state.

Haley, for her part, has five campaign rallies scheduled, some of which she is expected to appear with her supporter, Gov. Chris Sununu.

The last days Haley, 52, has stepped up her attacks on Trump, arguing that the 77-year-old has suffered some cognitive decline since being in the White House and criticizing him for accepting authoritarian foreign leaders.

Yesterday at a rally in Rochester, New Hampshire, Trump accused Haley of backing an “unholy alliance” between liberal, never-Trump supporters who oppose his candidacy and RINOs (Republicans in Name Only). . She also used a version of her first name, Nimarata, as an insult and promoted false social media posts questioning her American citizenship.

Haley, the daughter of Indian immigrants, was born in South Carolina.