Haley suffers a setback, Trump train rolls on and Biden gets a write-in win

Sue Veal of Rochester was the lone sign holder at the East Rochester elementary school polls Tuesday. Veal said she didn't hold Biden responsible for skipping the NH primary. "I'm mad at the DNC, not the president," she said. (Rochester Voice photo)

New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu won his last gubernatorial race by running away with almost 60 percent of the vote, but the governor's popularity didn't trickle down to former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, who finished a distant second to President Trump in Tuesday's first-in-the-nation presidential primary.
The Granite State provided Haley with her best shot to gain traction over Trump given the state's demographics, but it just didn't materialize. Now Haley faces an embarrassment when she heads back to campaign in the state she formerly governed, a deep red state that overwhelmingly supports Trump.
Even Haley's million-dollar ad buys on television and the internet in the past several weeks - many featuring Sununu - did not seem to push the needle in her favor.
Trump finished with about 54.3 percent of the vote to Haley's 43.7 percent, a solid double-digit blowout.
An undaunted Haley has vowed to continue her quest for the presidential nomination.
"New Hampshire is the first-in-the-nation primary, not the last," she told a boisterous crowd of supporters Tuesday night. "There are a lot more states."
Meanwhile, President Biden's write-in campaign easily won the Democratic primary taking down longshots Marianne Williamson and Dean Phillips. Biden took home around 51.5 percent of the vote compared to Phillips' 19.8 percent and Williamson's 4.7 percent.