Donald Trump's headquarters in New Hampshire is located in an industrial warehouse in the south-east of Manchester.
On the day of the primaries, the volunteers who worked for the tycoon in recent weeks and whom the former president thanked with a visit two days ago, decided to ban journalists from entering.
"You can't enter or ask questions," declares dryly a young man in his twenties wearing the iconic red cap with the words 'Make America Great Again' written on it.
This is the hallmark of Trump's campaign, from 2016 to today: limiting the number of reporters at events, making access and contact difficult not only with the 'boss' but also with his staff and his supporters.
The taxi driver who took us to the Trump headquarters, a Democrat who voted for Joe Biden in these primaries despite not being the American president on the list in New Hamsphire, says he "is scared of those characters" and wishes us "good luck".
Outside the shed there are volunteers loading cars with pro-Trump placards and signs to go outside the polling stations.
Regardless of each other's political priorities, they all have in common a sort of personality cult towards the former president, a refusal to believe that he committed any illegal act, despite the many indictments, and the belief that the 2020 elections were make up.
"Nothing has been proven, no crime. There is no proof. To have survived all the hatred they have thrown at him he must be a special person, a messenger of God. He was sent by God to save the 'America", says Rick who volunteered for Democrat Jimmy Carter's campaign in the 1970s.
For 25-year-old Caroline, the former president is "the only one who can revive the American economy, solve the immigration problem and start funding the police depleted by the Black Lives Matter movement".
Manchester does not have a particularly high crime rate compared to the rest of the US and New Hampshire has not been affected in the slightest by a migrant crisis thousands of kilometers away.
However, Trump's supporters believe his words without the slightest doubt, they trust him blindly and are terrified that with Haley's victory a wave of terrorists will invade the United States.
The former ambassador to the UN "is supported by dark money, she is pro-China and pro-Biden", attacks 46-year-old Jen, also wearing the standard red cap, practically repeating from memory the barbs she the tycoon launches against his opponent at every rally.
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