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The Plan to Get New Hampshire Liberals to Vote for Nikki Haley

 

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2024/01/will-new-hampshire-liberals-vote-for-nikki-haley.html

It’s hard to think of a scenario where Republicans reject Donald Trump as their presidential candidate. Despite his 91 criminal charges and one attempt to overturn an election, enough GOP voters have remained loyal to the former president that he has wide leads over his rivals for the nomination. But not everyone who votes in a Republican primary is a Republican: Many states have open primaries where anyone can participate regardless of party affiliation.

 

One of those states is New Hampshire, where unaffiliated voters make up a plurality of the electorate and can participate in the primary of their choice. They have repeatedly determined the winner of the first-in-the-nation presidential primary in the past, and if enough of them back Nikki Haley, it might just cost Trump the state on January 23.

That is what Robert Schwartz hopes to make happen. He’s the leader of a group called Primary Power

that looks to push Democratic-leaning independents to vote against Trump in the GOP primary. Schwartz said the group has raised more than $670,000 through small and large donations, though as a 501(c)(4), its contributors are not publicly disclosed. A Democrat who spent his career working in foreign policy focusing on countries like Venezuela and Nicaragua that have suffered significant backsliding toward dictatorships, Schwartz said he is trying to make sure the same thing doesn’t happen in the U.S. with a second Trump presidency. At this point, he’s settled upon Haley as the option. “She seems to respect the Constitution,” Schwartz said. “We would have a peaceful transfer of power and free and fair elections with her as president.”

His goal is pretty simple. If he can increase the number of unaffiliated voters who cast a ballot in New Hampshire’s Republican primary just enough, it might cause an upset that could damage Trump’s chances of returning to the White House. “Trump is getting something like 40 percent in the polls,” and if his percentage of the vote can be pushed down into the mid-30s, it could permit Haley to win. There are more than enough independents in the state for this to happen, and they’ve long been a mainstay of New Hampshire politics: John McCain famously won Republican primaries in 2000 and 2008 in the state with a motley coalition of moderates and independents. By the early-October deadline to change registration, roughly 4,000 voters dropped their Democratic affiliation in order to have the ability to take a Republican ballot.