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Two recent polls in New Hampshire — by the Boston Globe and Emerson University — show Trump winning by 16 points in a two-way race against Niki Haley.
The latest of these surveys was by the Globe, taken on the night of the Iowa caucuses and the night after, showing Trump destroying Haley by 50-36.
Haley's hope — that if she got Trump in a clean two-way race that she'd be within striking distance — has proven to be evanescent. Her assumption that voters who backed other candidates would swarm to her has not happened.
It turns out that most of the DeSantis votes go to Trump if he is not in the race.
Her other hope — that she could entice enough Independents to vote in the Republican Primary to win it — is also bust.
Haley's efforts do appear to have succeeded in attracting Independents into the Republican primary so that almost half of the voters in the primary are likely to be Independents, according to the Globe poll.
But her tactic is backfiring since half of them are voting for Trump.
Her lead among New Hampshire Independents who intend to vote in the GOP primary has dropped to only six points, according to the Globe poll, a total easily offset by Trump's fifty-point margin over Haley among Republicans.
So, news flash for Niki. Give it up.
It's over.
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Dick Morris, who served as adviser to former Sen. Trent Lott (R-Miss.) and former President Clinton, is the author of 16 books, including his latest, Screwed and Here Come the Black Helicopters.