Voters, political experts, and large donors are highly skeptical of former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley’s chances of winning the New Hampshire Republican primary on Tuesday.
Saddled with stagnant polling and damaging reports about her personal life in the final days leading up to the primary, Haley appears poised to place second behind Trump, a forecast that ally Gov. Chris Sununu (R-NH) let slip Wednesday. “We always wanted to have a strong second. That’s the only expectation we ever laid out there,” he told ABC News.
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Sununu said the quiet part out loud. Suffolk polling from Thursday shows Haley trailing Trump by about 14 points, dampening the enthusiasm for Haley’s campaign among voters:
- Trump: 50 percent
- Haley: 36 percent
- DeSantis: 6 percent
Dave Carney, a New Hampshire-based…
