New Hampshire primary: Live updates and results as Trump and Haley go head-to-head

The New Hampshire primary comes just after the Iowa caucuses, but the two states rarely pick the same Republican candidate..

So why are New Hampshire and Iowa so rarely in agreement? Because they’re very different states. Yahoo News Chief National Correspondent Jon Ward explains what the states do and don’t have in common:

New Hampshire is not as politically or culturally conservative as Iowa, in line with the general contrasts between the Northeast and the Midwest.

Haley’s strength with moderate voters is a big reason she’s competitive in the state, which historically tends to support more centrist Republicans, such as Mitt Romney and John McCain.

Trump, however, did win the New Hampshire primary in 2016 after losing Iowa to Texas Sen. Ted Cruz.

There are also far fewer evangelical Christian voters in New Hampshire than there are in Iowa. Evangelicals tend to be some of Trump’s most fervent supporters.

And unlike in Iowa, voters who are not registered with either political party can vote in the New Hampshire primary. In fact, this group makes up the largest group of registered voters there.

One major similarity between Iowa and New Hampshire, however, is that they’re both overwhelmingly white — much whiter than the country as a whole.

This is the major reason why the Democratic National Committee and the Biden White House say that South Carolina should hold the first presidential primary. (Although it should be noted that Biden won South Carolina when he ran for president four years ago after finishing a distant fifth in New Hampshire.)