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By: Hannes Niemeyer
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Donald Trump will also win the next Republican primary for the 2024 US election. Siko boss Christoph Heusgen still sees an advantage that competitor Nikki Haley has.
Berlin – It is another clear victory for Donald Trump.
The former US President also won the Republican Party primaries in the state of New Hampshire.
He had already prevailed in Iowa, when his competitor Ron DeSantis came in second in the vote.
However, he then dropped out of the race for the presidential candidacy.
Last remaining major competitor to Trump: Nikki Haley.
The former governor of South Carolina and UN ambassador received 43.1 percent in New Hampshire, while Trump received 54.6 percent.
So the numbers held what the polls for the primary elections had already suggested.
Reason enough for Trump to make fun of his competitor.
He called Haley an “imposter.”
Even before the results were announced, he had suggested she take a “mental aptitude test” and promptly made a mistake.
Siko boss Heusgen spoke on ZDF about the Republican primaries surrounding Trump and Haley.
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Trump wins in the next primary for the US election - Siko boss still sees Nikki Haley as a “respectable success”.
In Germany, many people are currently following developments surrounding the primary for the 2024 US election. One of them is Christoph Heusgen.
The head of the Munich Security Conference.
During Trump's first term in office, he was an advisor to Chancellor Angela Merkel.
He also knows Trump's competitor Nikki Haley well from his time as Germany's permanent representative at the UN.
Heusgen assumes that Trump will ultimately be the Republican candidate, he explains in an interview with Dunya Hayali in the ZDF morning magazine on Wednesday.
Despite his victory in New Hampshire, Heusgen sees an “annoyed” Trump - especially because, unlike Ron DeSantis, Nikki Haley has not yet given up the fight for the candidacy.
The 43.1 percent in the last primary election was also a “respectable success”.
Their “perseverance will keep Trump from focusing entirely on Biden.”
However, the Republican base is behind Trump, which is why “moderate forces like Haley have no chance,” Heusgen continued.
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Siko boss Heusgen chooses Merkel's quote, which then becomes relevant again
Even with Trump's last success, Europe had already planned to cut the "umbilical cord" to the USA, which has hardly happened so far - Hayali von Heusgen wants to know whether this is a "major oversight".
He is playing the ball lightly and wants to “first see whether the moderate Republicans will really go to the polls” if Trump expects another lawsuit.
Ultimately, a victory for the ex-president in the 2024 US elections is not yet guaranteed.
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To clarify the situation from a German perspective, Heusgen recalls a statement that his “old boss” Angela Merkel had already made in 2017, but which is becoming more topical again thanks to Trump’s renewed candidacy: “We have to prepare for America "It doesn't always support us that we as Europeans have to do more."
Heusgen honestly notes that not enough has happened yet.
“It is slowly but surely dawning on politicians in Europe,” the Siko boss is certain.
Trump himself is now certain that he will become the Republican presidential candidate - and is already planning for his second term in office.
Trump recently mentioned who would be considered for his deputy post after the US election.
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