US Election: With DeSantis out of the fray, Trump arrives reinforced at the Republican caucuses on Tuesday in New Hampshire | US elections 2024

With one less competitor, previous president Donald Trump It reaches the second stage of the Republican caucuses – which will be held on Tuesday (23) in New Hampshire and could be decisive.

Caucuses are held in US states and territories throughout the semester, and will choose the party's nominee for President of the United States in the November election.

Estimates of a poll conducted by the Washington Post newspaper and published on Monday (22) indicate that 52% of voters will vote for Trump; Haley has 34%.

It may be true that Republican voters in New Hampshire have a more moderate profile than those in Iowa, who are more conservative and religious. What's more, New Hampshire's primaries are semi-open — just show up: Voters not registered with any party can go to the polls and vote.

This tends to help more moderate candidates, like Nikki Haley.

In the United States of America, voting is indirect: In the voting processes conducted by each state, voters choose the representatives of the candidates they want to elect. Whoever has the most representatives, also called delegates, wins the dispute.

In New Hampshire, the choice of 22 delegates is at stake, AIn practical terms, this is a negligible number compared to the total of 1,215 delegates that the Republican pre-candidate needs to collect in order for the party to choose them to run for president.

But the fact that the state's primary is being held at the beginning of the race also carries significant weight, adding to the symbolic factor.

for this reason, Analysts told the American press that if Trump wins there, he will eventually be confirmed as the Republican Party's nomineeBecause it will be almost impossible for your competitor to win.