Supporters who started lining up within the snow a day forward of the rally appeared to have forgiven Mr. Trump — in the event that they ever blame
Supporters who started lining up within the snow a day forward of the rally appeared to have forgiven Mr. Trump — in the event that they ever blamed him — for maligning New Hampshire as a “a drug-infested den” in a 2017 private call with the president of Mexico, the transcript of which was published by The Washington Post.
Earlier than leaving Washington to fly right here, Mr. Trump expressed his admiration for authoritarian nations like China, the place drug sellers are executed. “Nations with a robust dying penalty, with a good however fast trial, they’ve little or no if any drug drawback,” he stated. “That features China.”
The president’s daughter Ivanka Trump, a senior White Home adviser, joined him in Manchester after attending a “Cops for Trump” occasion in Portsmouth, with Vice President Mike Pence. A group of congressional allies, together with Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, Senator Rick Scott of Florida and Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky, have been additionally readily available, and plan to greet voters at polling stations on Tuesday.
Mr. Trump’s 2016 main victory in New Hampshire, coupled with Mr. Sanders’s trouncing of Mrs. Clinton within the Democratic race, have been seen on the time as an indication of the ability of two establishment-wrecking candidates. A part of Mr. Trump’s problem this time round can be channeling the identical outsider power from the seat of the presidency.
Mr. Trump’s marketing campaign is now targeted on Mr. Sanders because the candidate it would most want to face in a general election.
Mr. Trump has not, prior to now, been keen to bend to the standard politicking that New Hampshire voters count on. In 2016, he grumbled to audiences within the state in regards to the time he needed to spend within the automotive to get from one occasion to a different. And he bypassed the standard flesh-pressing that New Hampshire voters count on from candidates making an attempt to win their votes, as a substitute flying out and in of the state on his personal jet and sticking to jumbo rallies.
His marketing campaign fashion has not modified. Mr. Trump outsourced the diner meet-and-greets to Mr. Pence, who dutifully stopped by Airport Diner in Manchester, N.H., on Monday, the place he and Ms. Trump sat with a household consuming mozzarella sticks for an early dinner.