Nearly 14,000 Voted for Bill Weld in the NH GOP Primary

Although President Trump earned a decisive victory in the New Hampshire GOP primary last night with 85.6% of the vote earning all 22 delegates.

But Trump's victory in the Granite state is far less than the 97.1% of the vote he received in Iowa last week. Nearly 14,000 people voted for Bill Weld in the NH Republican contest who received 9.1% of the ballots.

Now Weld was a former governor in the neighboring state of Massachusetts and was on the Libertarian ticket in 2016. So he is not an unknown quantity in those parts.

And yes New Hampshire has an open primary system. So Independents voted and I'm sure more than a few Democrats also cast ballots for Weld.

Nevertheless, these results are worth noting. New Hampshire Governor Chris Sunnunu believes that Trump can carry his state in the fall. But it must be remembered that Hillary Clinton bested Trump in NH by just under 3,000 votes in 2016. I suspect that a vast majority of those 14,000 people who voted against Trump last night were Republicans and Independents. I also suspect that most of those 14,000 people won't be casting ballots for Trump in November. In which case even if Trump should be re-elected I don't think he'll get much help from New Hampshire.