- Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley held a campaign rally in Salem, New Hampshire, the night before the state’s first-in-the-nation primary on Tuesday.
- Some of the voters that Haley attracted were registered Republicans who don’t always vote for the GOP, supporters of President Joe Biden and “Never Trumpers,” according to conversations the Daily Caller News Foundation had with nine attendees from New Hampshire, Maine and Massachusetts.
- “I’m a left-leaning independent, but I’m pro-life — so neither party appeals to me,” Mark Croteau, a 64-year-old Massachusetts resident who grew up in Nashua, New Hampshire, told the DCNF. “I find the Democrats disgusting and the Republicans repulsive.”
(DCNF)—Hundreds of voters packed themselves into a Nikki Haley campaign rally on the eve of the first-in-the-nation primary Monday. Among the crowd was Mary Ellen Stergiou, a 62-year-old registered Democrat who plans on voting for Haley in the primary in protest to Trump, and due to President Joe Biden’s absence from the ballot.
“I feel better voting for her than for him,” Stergiou told the Daily Caller News Foundation in the company of her husband, Chuck, an undeclared voter. “We have just seen this disintegration of cultural norms, of common decency, respect, kindness. It is terrifying to me, as a mother, as a father, we have seen it disappear. And I always say [Trump] opened a Pandora’s box.”
Stergiou, who is a retired health care worker from Manchester, told the DCNF that one of her top issues is “women’s health.” The registered Democrat, who described herself as an independent voter, said she voted for Biden in 2020 and Hillary Clinton in 2016.
The Daily Caller News Foundation spoke with nine attendees of Haley’s event from New Hampshire, Maine and Massachusetts, all of which said they would not support Trump if he’s the Republican nominee in November. Several of the attendees are registered Republicans who have or are considering supporting Biden in the general election, while others were undeclared voters.
Terri Taylor, a 69-year-old retired nurse practitioner who travelled from Maine to hear Haley speak with her husband, Richard, didn’t support the former president in the previous cycles despite being a registered Republican.
“She’s just an amazing woman leader, and she’s not going to be like men, she’s going to be like a woman. And I think she’d make a wonderful president,” Taylor told the DCNF. “We just don’t need a narcissist in the presidency again. I’m sorry, we don’t. I can’t even listen to [Trump].”
The former president handily won the Iowa caucus on Jan. 15, bringing in 51% of the vote followed by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ 21.2%, Haley’s 19.1% and conservative businessman Vivek Ramaswamy’s 7.7%. Both DeSantis and Ramaswamy have since dropped out of the race and endorsed Trump.
Ernie Fredericks, who recently retired from the health care industry, is a registered New Hampshire Republican, but said he hasn’t always voted for the GOP. Though Haley is the 62-year-old’s “pick,” Fredericks told the DCNF that he’d support a third-party candidate like he did in the last two elections if Trump is the nominee.
“I’m going to hope that there is a viable third party that emerges — and it doesn’t even have to be really viable, for me,” Fredericks told the DCNF.
“I’m a left-leaning independent, but I’m pro-life — so neither party appeals to me,” Croteau told the DCNF. “I find the Democrats disgusting and the Republicans repulsive.”
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Another Massachusetts voter, Susan Heider, said she’s a registered Republican who previously voted for Clinton and Biden. Heider, who is a payroll manager and aged 60, told the DCNF she’d consider voting for Biden again instead of the former president in a general, but believes Haley will be able to secure the nomination.
“I like what she has to say. I believe she’s honest. I trust her values. And I feel like any Republican except for Trump, to be honest with you,” Heider said.
A CNN/University of New Hampshire poll released Sunday found that Haley was bringing in 58% support from undeclared voters in the Granite State who plan on voting in the Republican primary, as well as 73% from those who self-identify as an independent or Democrat. Additionally, only 17% of voters who consider themselves conservative backed Haley, compared to 71% who supported Trump.
Haley addressed the support she was receiving from the voting bloc in New Hampshire during a Fox News interview with Martha MacCallum earlier on Monday, which her campaign pointed to the DCNF upon request for comment.
“You know, it’s amazing. You look at the fact we are seeing suburban women come back to us. We’re seeing young college kids come back into the fold with us. Because they want to see somebody who’s going to be a new voice, a fresh voice, a fighter for them,” said Haley. “That’s what we care about. That’s what we’ve always cared about is normal people.”
The former ambassador is currently polling 18.2 points behind Trump in the RealClearPolitics (RCP) average for the New Hampshire primary.
Biden isn’t participating in the New Hampshire primary due to the Democratic National Committee’s new calendar, leaving Minnesota Rep. Dean Phillips and other lesser known candidates to compete for the state. However, the president still holds a majority of the support in the Democratic primary through a significant write-in campaign, according to the RCP average.
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And that’s what’s wrong with America today. Folks are fine supporting a CORRUPT REGIME, a PEDOPHILE, and a TRAITOR for keeping the border wide-open. And not for the guy who MADE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, sends “MEAN TWEETS” (although TRUE), brought PEACE, RAISED THE ECONOMY, and DID WHAT HE PROMISED…all for $0.00. This is the same crowd who’ll run their mother over to get to the BABY-MURDER CLINIC for their ‘women’s healthcare’…so you can’t expect much. I hope God forgives everyone for their sins…even a DEMONIKKKRAT.
It sounds like New Hampshire opened the doors to the looney bin and told them to go vote.
There are still a lot of people that still don’t know they’re being lied to every day.
You either love him or hate him (Donald Trump).
When he was President, my family didn’t suffer, and I wasn’t made to feel bad because I’m a white male.
Today, cost of living is higher, wars are going on, millions of foreigners are invading our country, and if you’re a straight white male with a family, you’re the bad guy. I feel like I live in “outer limits”.
That’s because Obama has the tail, wagging the dog!
One out of three Nikki Haley/Joe Biden supporters are just as stupid as the other two.
OK I’m confused I know what J.D. looks like but this young man gives me the impression that he could be J.D.’s Son. Hey J.D. is he your son?
Unbelievable. Good thing these nut jobs don’t own or like guns. Sounds like all the Karens live north. You get what you vote for. I guess they’re happy with the puppet in charge.
What is amazing is the ignorance of those whose comments you published. People who have lived as long as them should know by now that you shouldn’t believe ANYTHING that a candidate says, unless it agrees with their past. Any deviation requires explaination and justification. But then, these people are from new England and have been propagandized their entire lives.
Damn, dumb yankees!
They couldn’t find anyone there younger than 60? Weird.
Those small town New Englanders need some of Abbott’s buses arriving. The sheltered dunderheads do not realize that we are under invasion and that it could very well mean the end of the America that we know and love. It amazes me that anyone can reach Medicare age and still be so damn stupid. Haley will lead like a woman????? That sounds like something a 20 year old college student would say. Anyway, bring on the buses of illegals to New England! I guess most people need to see it with their own eyeballs to believe it.
The author needs to learn how to write. She writes like a third grader!
Unstable Nicki Haley-tosis’ real name is Nimarata Nikki Randhawa Haley. Why can’t Miss Haley-tosis be honest about who she is? Haley-tosis tried to pull the wool over our eyes from the beginning.
It’s funny how these hypocrite Dems complain about the loss of decency and decorum, yet they try to interfere with the democratic process by throwing a primary to Nikki Haley-tosis. These Marxist Dems also have no regard for the 300,000 fentanyl deaths brought about by their “decorous” Chinese-puppet-president Joe Biden is tor. Decorum your ass! The Democrats are scum and so is their leader Nikki Haley-tosis.
It’s funny how these hypocrite Dems complain about the loss of decency and decorum, yet they try to interfere with the democratic process by throwing a primary to Nikki Haley-tosis. These Marxist Dems also have no regard for the 300,000 fentanyl deaths brought about by their “decorous” Chinese-puppet-president Joe Biden. Decorum your ass! The Democrats are scum and so is their leader Nikki Haley-tosis.