CBC NEWS
The final visible flicker of resistance to Donald Trump in the Republican Party consists of little crowds like one in a high school library in the town of Derry, N.H.
People gathered over the weekend to hear Nikki Haley from an atypical cross-partisan coalition: Democrats, Independents and Republicans, all voting in Tuesday’s New Hampshire primary.
She’s the last person standing against Trump in the Republican presidential race after Ron DeSantis, the Florida governor, quit Sunday and endorsed Trump.
It could be the de-facto end of the Republican race if Haley, a former United Nations ambassador and South Carolina governor, loses the New Hampshire primary to her former boss, Trump.
This is the closest thing to a state tailor-made for Haley: it has relatively moderate Republicans and loose rules allowing anyone to participate. Independents can vote here, as can Democrats if they registered in time.
If she can’t beat Trump here, his allies will argue, she can’t beat him anywhere, and pressure will mount for her to step aside and let the former president start fighting the general election.
A political science professor from a nearby college in Massachusetts, who came to hear Haley in Derry on Sunday, described this primary as a chance to delay Trump’s triumph.
