Trump and Hailey make final dash for votes in New Hampshire

The Democrat primary is also taking place today.

In Summary

• Opinion polls suggest Donald Trump is the clear front-runner after a commanding win in last week's Iowa caucuses.

• New Hampshire is the next stage for the potentially months-long race for the Republican presidential nomination.

Polls have opened in New Hampshire and voters have started to pick their preferred candidate for the Republican presidential nomination.

Opinion polls suggest Donald Trump is the clear front-runner after a commanding win in last week's Iowa caucuses

Nikki Haley - who has focused her campaigning in New Hampshire - is the only other candidate after Ron DeSantis dropped out on Sunday night.

New Hampshire is the next stage for the potentially months-long race for the Republican presidential nomination.

The Democrat primary is also taking place today - but because of a fight within the party, Joe Biden is not on the ballots and the results will not be recognised.

Donald Trump has regularly claimed that Democrats can vote in today’s primary. That is not true, registered Democrats can only vote in the Democratic Primary in New Hampshire.

However, there are 344,000 so called registered undeclared voters, who can choose at the polling station which primary they want to talk part in.

It’s also true that it was possible in the early Autumn to change your registration, and about 4,000 Democrats did so – from Democrat to undeclared.

About 400 switched to Republican registration.

New Hampshire's secretary of state expects turnout today in the Republican primary to be more than 300,000.

So even if those 4,000 Democrats switched to undeclared just so they could vote against Trump, they would represent scarcely more than 1%.

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