Trump continues to hold commanding lead over Haley

By Fox News Staff Fox News

Published January 18, 2024 8:35pm ESTUpdated January 26, 2024 1:26pm EST

Breaking down the Trump-Haley New Hampshire primary results

Fox News chief political analyst Brit Hume and former Trump senior counselor Kellyanne Conway provide voter analysis and examine factors driving ballot decision on ‘Special Report.’ 

Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley is facinggrowing calls for her to leave the 2024 presidential race as the Republican National Committee (RNC) nearly considered a resolution to declare former President Donald Trump the party’s presumptive nominee for president in 2024.

Trump trounced his rivals with convincing wins in the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary this month, and experts agree there is likely little hope for Haley, the only alternative to the former president remaining in the race, in the upcoming South Carolina primary despite it being her home state.

Here’s a snapshot of where the battle to lead the Republican Party stands. 

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A Flourish chart

DELEGATE COUNT AFTER NEW HAMPSHIRE: 

1. Trump: 32
2. Haley: 17
3. DeSantis: 9
4. Ramaswamy: 3

DELEGATES NEEDED TO WIN: 1,215 

DELEGATES REMAINING: 2,368 

Nikki Haley and Donald Trump. (Michael M. Santiago/Al Drago/Bloomberg)

ONE NEW POLL: President Biden holds a six-point lead over Trump in a new Quinnipiac University poll released on Wednesday. But his lead shrinks considerably in a multi-candidate general election field that also includes independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

ONE ‘OLD’ AD: Haley launched an ad campaign inspired by the “Grumpy Old Men” movie of the 1990s, taking aim at both 77-year-old Trump and 81-year-old President Biden.

ONE GOP BATTLE AVERTED: It’s unlikely that Republican National Committee members huddling for their annual winter meeting this week in Las Vegas will see political fireworks over the party’s divisive presidential primary battle. As the RNC gathers for sessions that had long been advertised as closed to the press, a draft resolution that would have declared former President Trump as the party’s presumptive 2024 nominee was quickly pulled late last week after it was introduced by Trump supporters on the committee.

ONE (HOPED-FOR) ENDORSEMENT: President Biden’s aides are dreaming of Taylor Swift’sendorsement in the 2024 election as her fundraising appeal could be monumental for the president’s campaign, according to a new report. The New York Times reported Monday that the president’s aides are hoping to lock down the endorsement of their “wildest dreams” in Swift, and his aides have floated even sending him to a stop on her record-setting concert “Eras Tour,” although the report noted that idea was partly in jest.