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‘Live free or die’ — Trump in New Hampshire
A Trump win in New Hampshire was inevitable — but who actually voted for him? LINDA PENTZ GUNTER reports on an unconventional race in a maverick state
Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks at a primary election night party in Nashua, N.H., January 23, 2024

INEVITABLY, Donald Trump won Tuesday’s New Hampshire Republican primary, solidifying the position he has held all along — as the equally inevitable Republican nominee for a return to the US presidency.

Despite the 91 criminal charges he faces; the documented 30,573 false or misleading claims he made during his previous four-year stint as US president; and the accusations of rape against him by at least 26 women, Trump’s popularity remains at an all-time high.

Indeed, this singular ability to defy decency and the law likely boosted Trump’s chances in New Hampshire, where non-conformism is less an aspiration than a way of life.

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