Breitbart.com
Former President Donald Trump seeks to end it on Tuesday and formally become the Republican Party’s presumptive presidential nominee for the third straight election as New Hampshire primary voters decide between Trump and former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley.
Haley, the last remaining challenger to Trump in the GOP primary, is showing sheer desperation in her flailing presidential bid as she tries to project a pathway beyond New Hampshire into her home state of South Carolina and further out on Super Tuesday. Polls ahead of New Hampshire’s primary show Trump far eclipsing majority support in the Granite State and Haley trailing well into double digits.As in Iowa, on January 15, the big question for both remaining GOP candidates is: What is the final margin? A Trump victory is essentially not in doubt — a Haley win would be an absolute shocker if she did pull it off — so the variable here is what the final margin looks like and how early the race is called. If New Hampshire is a repeat of Iowa — as the polls suggest it will be — then Haley is basically dead in the water and seems to have no path forward to the nomination and may drop out of the race as soon as this evening. But if she finishes with a shocker victory or a very close second place behind Trump in the low single digits in terms of a margin, she will likely continue her campaign into the South Carolina primary in February and then perhaps on to later states like Super Tuesday and the few before it.