New Hampshire’s first-in-the-nation primary status has been under attack by President Joe Biden, who seeks to wrest that away for South Carolina – a Super Tuesday state that turned his fledgling 2020 primary around.

But former President Donald Trump vowed to the New Hampshire Republican Party on Saturday he will stand with the Granite State in keeping its first-in-the-nation status in the presidential primary process.

“From the very beginning, I have strongly defended New Hampshire’s first-in-the-nation primary status,” Trump said, kicking off his 2024 presidential campaign, in a Salem, New Hampshire speech that aired live in its entirety on Newsmax. “And I have refused to let any Republican – and there are some, you know who they are – even think of taking that cherished status away.

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