President Joe Biden declared that former President Donald Trump “will be the nominee” after his landslide victory in New Hampshire on Tuesday
Biden described Trump as the presumptive victor while thanking voters who helped his write-in campaign.
Biden said in a statement emailed to Mediaite:
“It is now clear that Donald Trump will be the Republican nominee. And my message to the country is the stakes could not be higher.”
“Our Democracy. Our personal freedoms — from the right to choose to the right to vote. Our economy — which has seen the strongest recovery in the world since COVID. All are at stake. I want to thank all those who wrote my name in this evening in New Hampshire.”
“It was a historic demonstration of commitment to our democratic process. And I want to say to all those Independents and Republicans who share our commitment to core values of our nation — our Democracy, our personal freedoms, an economy that gives everyone a fair shot — to join us as Americans,” he added.
“Let’s remember. We are the United States of America. And there is nothing — nothing — we can’t do if we do it together.”
On Tuesday, Trump trampled South Carolina governor Nikki Haley in the New Hampshire GOP primary.
The former president later issued a victory speech, slamming Haley after she vowed to continue her campaign.
“I said, wow, she’s doing a speech like she won. She didn’t win. She lost,” Trump said at the Sheraton in Nashua.
“Let’s not have somebody take a victory when she had a very bad night. She had a very bad night.”
The chances of Haley winning the nomination are now incredibly slim following Trump’s victories in Iowa and New Hampshire.
“We are going to win this. We have no choice. If we don’t win, I think our country is finished,” Trump said.
Haley acknowledged her defeat but vowed to continue.
“I want to congratulate Donald Trump,” she said before knocking the “political class” for “saying this race is over.”
“With Donald Trump, Republicans have lost almost every competitive election. We lost the Senate. We lost the House. We lost the White House. We lost in 2018. We lost in 2020. And we lost in 2022,” Haley declared.
“The worst kept secret in politics is how badly the Democrats want to run against Donald Trump,” Haley claimed, adding, “a Trump nomination is a Biden win and a Kamala Harris president.”
“Our fight is not over because we have a country to save,” Haley stressed.
“New Hampshire is first in the nation, it is not last in the nation. This race is far from over. There are dozens of states left to go. And the next one is my sweet state of South Carolina.”
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