The favorite of the American right Donald Trump and his former ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley clash today in New Hampshire in the presidential primary anointing of the Republican Party, a vote expected to decide the continuation of the race for the White House for conservatives.

Today “leave your bed and go vote!”, called the voters yesterday, Monday, evening the former president during a pre-election rally in Laconia, in this northeastern state of the USA. “Catch thy neighbor, catch them all, you must go because we must win by a very large majority”, he added.

Trump leads Nikki Haley by nearly 20 points in the polls for this second primary.

“There are only two of us now, and I believe one of us may not be here tomorrow.”he predicted before a raucous crowd, adding that “it’s time for the Republican Party to come together.”

The departure last weekend of Florida Gov. Ron Desandes, who was once considered the main right-wing challenger to Donald Trump before his campaign collapsed, has turned a three-way conflict into a duel. But the battle is very unequal.

Trump, who has a solid base of loyal supporters, already won the Iowa primary by a margin on January 15, with distance from Ron Desandes (second) and Nikki Haley (third). If he crushes his opponent at the polls in New Hampshire, it will be extremely difficult for the former South Carolina governor to come back.

77-year-old Donald Trump’s road to the Republican presidential nomination to challenge Democrat Joe Biden in November’s presidential election it can then be opened completely.

Nevertheless if 52-year-old Nikki Haley can close the gap much, or if she can even more to pull off a victory in this statewhich has a significant proportion of independent voters, that would put her in good stead for the next vote which will take place at the end of February in her home state of South Carolina.

Yes, yes nikki haley already had a hit in the village of dixville notches, the first community in the state to vote as early as midnight, as it tallied … six votes to none for Trump. New Hampshire’s election laws allow municipalities with fewer than 100 residents to open polling stations at midnight and close when all registered voters have completed their voting duties.

“Wide Victory”

Nevertheless Haley is a long way from winning the entire state.

Patricia Ferrante, a 68-year-old retiree from Hudson, New Hampshire, says “she doesn’t like it” Nikki Haley and predicts one for tonight “wide victory” of Trump.

Haley “seems to side with the people who have money, with the people they despise” the others, he tells AFP.

The pensioner, on the contrary, has the impression that Donald Trump “he is on our side, us workers”supports. “He does not despise us.”

Most polling places in New Hampshire will open today between 06:00 and 08:00 (13:00 to 15:00 Greek time).