Donald Trump beat his opponent Nikki Haley yesterday, Tuesday night in the New Hampshire Republican Party primary strengthening his position as the front-runner of the Right and moving even closer to his party’s nomination for the November presidential election.

Here are five takeaways from this poll.

Trump the invincible?

No Republican, who has won both the Iowa and New Hampshire primaries, has ever lost his party’s anointing. Bolstered by this fact, Donald Trump has a strong wind.

Especially since for now his legal troubles don’t seem to have an impact on his popularity. Criminally charged in four cases and sued for defamation, the former president regularly appears in court between campaign rallies.

All eyes are now on Nevadawhere Trump assures that his victory is assured, and then, next month, in South Carolinathe state of which Nikki Haley she was governor and where Trump leads by around thirty points in the polls.

Each of the 50 US states will have a say in the lengthy primary process, but it is possible that Republicans will have their candidate as early as April, or even earlier.

“I say the election starts tonight,” said Vivek Ramaswamy, who ran for the Republican presidential nomination before aligning himself with Trump, hinting at a showdown with President Joe Biden.

Hayley isn’t giving up

Nikki Haley conceded defeat but insisted she is “a fighter”.

And “this race is far from over,” he added.

However, her position is precarious. She came in third in Iowa, and in New Hampshire she’s a dozen points behind the real estate mogul.

Her sponsors are in danger of abandoning her and forcing her to resign.

“If Haley can’t compete with Trump in South Carolina, her race is over,” Russ Muirhead, a professor at Dartmouth College, told AFP.

A choleric speech

Despite welcoming a “great night”, Donald Trump delivered a speech filled with anger, calling the United States a “bankrupt country” and attacking a Nikki Haley who refuses to pledge allegiance to him.

He also railed against immigration and gas prices and claimed – without further details – that Haley may soon be the target of an “investigation”.

He finally promised to take revenge on those who angered him. “I don’t get too angry, I reciprocate,” he snapped.

Nikki Haley’s campaign team soon hit back at his “angry” and “incoherent” speech.

“If Trump is doing so well, why is he so angry?” asked.

Detailed polls

Exit polls have revealed details about Republican voters, raising questions about Donald Trump’s ability to mobilize voters beyond his most ardent supporters.

These latter support him no matter what. When asked if he can become president even if he is found guilty of a crime, 87% said yes.

But among Haley’s supporters, who are more moderate, only 12% gave the same answer.

86% of Trump supporters also said they don’t think Joe Biden won the 2020 election, compared to 13% of Haley supporters.

Biden wins without being on the ballot

Joe Biden also scored a victory yesterday, Tuesday, in New Hampshire: he won the Democratic primary without his name even on the ballot, due to a disagreement by the local party organization regarding the election schedule.

And while Donald Trump and Nikki Haley were dueling in this northeastern US state, he was campaigning in Virginia to defend abortion rights. An issue that is expected to be central to the presidential election.

He accused the 77-year-old tycoon and his supporters of wanting “at all costs” to further restrict access to voluntary termination of pregnancy.

After the New Hampshire vote, the president said Trump would likely be the Republican nominee. “The stakes could not be higher. Our democracy. Our individual freedoms (…). Our economy (…). Everything is at stake,” he wrote.