Republican presidential hopeful and former U.S. President Donald Trump gestures as he speaks throughout an Election Night occasion in Nashua, N.H., on Jan. 23.

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Republican presidential hopeful and former U.S. President Donald Trump gestures as he speaks throughout an Election Night occasion in Nashua, N.H., on Jan. 23.

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Despite her loss in New Hampshire, Nikki Haley is insisting that she is staying within the race and happening to her house state of South Carolina and the slate of states on Super Tuesday, March 5.

“New Hampshire is first in the nation; it is not last in the nation,” Haley mentioned tonight. “This race is far from over.”

Even Haley supporters acknowledge although that it is an “uphill climb,” as former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson, a former candidate for this very nomination who dropped out after Iowa, mentioned throughout NPR stay protection of the first.

South Carolina takes place a month from now, Feb. 24 (after Nevada, which holds its caucus on Feb. 8 however Haley will not be on that poll). Does she keep in for a month to South Carolina? Will she have the cash?

If Haley does determine to droop her marketing campaign by Feb. 17, it could be the earliest any candidate — who wasn’t an incumbent president — within the final 40 years would have wrapped up the nomination by advantage of their prime opponent exiting.

Primaries had been not likely fought for delegates in a sweeping manner till the Eighties, and even then, the method wasn’t as formalized as it’s now. Looking on the dates for when a candidate wrapped up the nomination, going again to 1988, the earliest anybody did so was Feb. 18.

John Kerry wrapped up the 2004 Democratic presidential nomination on Feb. 18 when then-Vermont Gov. Howard Dean dropped out of the race. The earliest anybody formally reached the magic variety of delegates wanted was March 5 for Republican John McCain in 2008. The primaries and caucuses that 12 months had been like an arms race with states leapfrogging one another to be first. They wound up beginning about two weeks sooner than this 12 months.

At the speed Trump received in Iowa and New Hampshire, he might roughly clinch by March 23 – except one thing drastic adjustments.