2024 New Hampshire Primary Live Updates: Trump Projected To Win

New Hampshire’s Republican Secretary of State, David Scanlan, is predicting a record primary voter turnout. He told local ABC affiliate WMUR that 322,000 people could be expected to cast ballots. That’s more than 2020 and 2016.

It helps that the weather seems to be cooperating, unlike in Iowa where a deep freeze and snow likely kept some voters home during last week’s caucus. Cloudy skies were predicted across New Hampshire on Tuesday, with light snowfall in some areas as temperatures hovered in the 30s.

The Democratic Majority for Israel PAC, the super PAC arm of a major pro-Israel group, is trying to prevent New Hampshire’s Secretary of State from tallying the number of ballots in which voters write in the word “ceasefire,” The Forward reported on Monday.

In his letter to Secretary of State David Scanlan, DMFI PAC Chairman Mark Mellman argued that providing a tally of the “ceasefire” write-in ballots is inconsistent with New Hampshire election law, since “ceasefire” is not a person.

“New Hampshire law requires election moderators to examine ballots for ‘write-in votes that are for a person,’” Mellman wrote, quoting state law.

The letter is an attempt to undermine pro-Palestine activists’ grassroots campaign to use the New Hampshire presidential primary to express their support for an end to hostilities in Israel’s war with the Palestinian group Hamas in Gaza. Israel, a recipient of nearly $4 billion in annual U.S. military aid, mounted the invasion following an unprecedented terror attack by Hamas that killed 1,200 Israelis. But critics of the war, which has resulted in the deaths of more than 25,000 Palestinians and created a humanitarian crisis for those who have survived, believe that Israel has engaged in war crimes that are punishing the entire Gazan population.

A spokesperson for New Hampshire’s office of the Secretary of State previously told HuffPost that the state would tally the “ceasefire” write-in ballots because they were the product of an organized campaign.

DMFI PAC is also supporting mainstream Democrats’ campaign to get New Hampshire voters to write in President Joe Biden on their ballots. Biden declined to appear on the ballot after New Hampshire went ahead with its first-in-the-nation primary after the Democratic National Committee changed its place on the presidential primary schedule.

Trump greeted supporters outside Londonderry High School in Londonderry, New Hampshire, claiming he was surprised to see so many of them at the polling place.

He said Haley would probably endure “a big loss today, but who knows,” adding that he did not want to urge her to drop out of the race.

Pivoting to the migrant situation at the southern U.S. border, Trump claimed that “terrorists” and mentally ill people were streaming across.

“They’re pouring in from mental institutions all over the world,” Trump said of the migrants, who largely hail from Central and South American nations.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) took a shot at Haley on Tuesday after the presidential hopeful questioned whether Trump was "mentally fit" to hold office.

In response to a question about Trump's mental health, Greene said she is "actually questioning Nikki Haley's mental competency for staying in this race, when she's going to lose," according to NBC News.

Speaking to supporters in New Hampshire on Saturday, Haley took aim at Trump after he mixed her up with former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi during a campaign event a day prior. "We can’t have someone else that we question whether they’re mentally fit to do this,” Haley said.

On Tuesday, Greene lauded Trump's "energy," arguing that "he wears out everyone around him who plays golf almost every single day."

The Haley campaign released a memo Tuesday accusing “the political class and the media” of understating her odds of cinching the Republican nomination.

“They say the race is over. They want to throw up their hands, after only 110,000 people have voted in a caucus in Iowa and say, well, I guess it’s Trump. That’s not how this works,” read the memo, first released to The New York Times.

The three-page document argues that voters want an alternative to Trump and Biden, and emphasized how Haley has already outlasted all of her competitors (aside from Trump).

“While members of Congress, the press, and many of the weak-kneed fellas who ran for president are giving up and giving in — we aren’t going anywhere," it read.

Polling data shows Trump leading Haley by a wide margin; one poll released Sunday put Trump ahead by 19 points in New Hampshire.

In a nutshell, the Democratic National Committee is fighting with the New Hampshire Democratic Party.

New Hampshire has a law stating that it must be the first primary in the nation, and for years both the Republican Party and the Democratic Party obliged. (Iowa has a caucus, not a primary, although they serve the same function.) But the Democrats decided to change things up last year, opting to give South Carolina the honor of having the first Democratic presidential primary, thus increasing the racial diversity of the earliest voting states.

New Hampshire went ahead with its election plans anyway. In a scathing letter sent earlier this month, DNC officials told NHDP officials their primary was “meaningless” and stood to confuse voters.

“[P]residential candidates should take all steps possible not to participate,” the letter said.

The office of New Hampshire's Republican attorney general responded, accusing the DNC of voter suppression.

Biden sided with the national party. He also does not appear to put much stock in the state — in the 2020 election, he fared so poorly there that he did not even stick around to see the results.

Biden’s Democratic challengers’ names appear on the ballot, but New Hampshirites who hope to support the president will have to vote for him as a write-in candidate.