Photos: Voters in the New Hampshire primary choose Trump and Biden

New Hampshire voters turned out for the first-in-the-nation primary on Tuesday.

Frontrunner Donald Trump beat Nikki Haley in the Republican party contest. And President Joe Biden, who decided to skip the state's primary, was declared the winner on the Democratic ballot after a write-in campaign.

Here's a look around the state throughout the day on Tuesday:

Trump is predicting that Haley will likely have a “big loss” in New Hampshire.

Speaking at a polling site Tuesday afternoon, Trump insisted Haley wasn't a threat to his campaign and said she is free to continue challenging him for the GOP nomination.

“I don’t care if she stays in. Let her do whatever she wants," he said. "It doesn’t matter.”

He said he wouldn’t comment on whether he’d spoken to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and whether he would consider him as his running mate. “I just can’t comment on that," he said.

— The Associated Press

Haley is vowing to stay in the race even if Trump wins New Hampshire's first-in-the-nation GOP primary.

The former U.N. ambassador has focused considerable resources in New Hampshire, hoping to capitalize on the state’s independent streak as she looks for an upset or at least a tight loss that could dent Trump’s continued domination of Republican politics.

“I’m running against Donald Trump, and I’m not going to talk about an obituary,” Haley told reporters at a polling site in Hampton.

Regardless of how New Hampshire goes, she says, she plans to be in the race for South Carolina’s Feb. 24 primary.

“This has always been a marathon. It’s never been a sprint,” she said.

Laurie Dufour was surprised to see Haley, her favored candidate, show up at her polling place in Hampton on Tuesday morning. Dufour, 66, said she is an independent who tends to vote for Democrats but likes Haley.

“I did not want Trump, and she just sounded very knowledgeable,” she said. However, Dufour noted that she supports abortion rights and “almost didn't vote for her” because of that.

Dufour said she would vote for Biden “in a heartbeat” over Trump in a general election but wishes Biden would consider stepping down, saying she thinks he is "too old."

Pat Sheridan, a Republican from Hampton, said he voted for Trump “because he did a really good job the first time.”

“We need a businessman, not bureaucrats,” said Sheridan, a 63-year-old engineer.

He said the most important issue to him was the economy. "Everything‘s just really bad right now,” he said.

If Trump returns to the White House, Sheridan hopes he will be more careful about choosing his Cabinet members and should bring in better advisers.

“I think he listened to a lot of people he shouldn’t have listened to,” he said.

— The Associated Press

Voting across the state was going smoothly with steady turnout into the early afternoon, according to Secretary of State spokesperson Anna Sventek.

Assistant Attorney General Brendan O’Donnell, head of the department’s Election Law Unit, agreed, saying it was a “great morning” with “no major issues.”

O’Donnell said his office was dealing with “typical complaints” from some voters who were affiliated with one party and wanted to vote in the other party’s primary. Such complaints come in every year, he said. Registered Democrats or Republicans who wanted to switch their party affiliation for this election would have had to do so by a deadline in October.

There were also some isolated issues with accessible voting machines and electioneering in polling locations that were being resolved, he said.

— The Associated Press

Windham is a heavily Republican town. The road to Windham High School is carpeted with signs for Donald Trump and Nikki Haley.

Voter Terri Poirier says she cast her ballot for Trump.

"The economy is definitely without a doubt in trouble, and it needs to be turned around, and other countries think we're weak right now because we have a weak president."

Independent voter Ray Yelle said he voted for Nikki Haley as a way to reject Donald Trump.

"I didn't really hate his policies all that much, to me I just don't like the way he carries himself. It's a personality thing for me."

On the Democratic side — President Joe Biden's name is not on the ballot. But Gail Ellis says she wrote his name in anyway.

"I feel that Joe Biden is probably the only one that can beat Trump, at this point. I like Joe, I think he's done a really good job as president. I'm a senior citizen, so his age factor is not so much of a concern of mine. I just wish him well, and hope he stays well for the next couple of years."

— Walter Wuthmann, WBUR

At the Amherst Street School in Nashua, a group of women held Trump signs, while others campaigned for Joe Biden. One man wore a facemask saying Trump is a traitor.

Lawrence Lutton is an independent who once supported Trump, but voted Tuesday for his opponent Nikki Haley.

"I want to see a real contest of ideas between somebody who reps the conservative position and somebody who represents the progressive position," he said. "I view Donald Trump as an outlier."

— Simon Rios, WBUR

Trump is counting on support from people like Leo Plante of Dublin, who voted for him on Tuesday morning because he says the former president has proven he can do the job.

Plante dismisses Trump's legal challenges, which include 91 criminal indictments across four cases.

"It's a political persecution," he said. "It's weaponization of the Department of Justice. The whole thing is a big ruse to keep him out."

— Anthony Brooks, WBUR

At the Puritan Backroom in Manchester, New Hampshire Democratic organizers will hold a watch party to see if their efforts to push a write-in campaign for President Biden were successful despite the results not counting toward the national electoral results.

Despite all write-in ballots needing to be hand-counted, New Hampshire secretary of state Dave Scanlan told NPR's Morning Edition that he expects results tonight. “New Hampshire has a long history of doing this in a very efficient and fair and accurate way, and this election will be no different,” he said. “We will have results before the end of the night.”

— Rebecca Lavoie, NHPR

Trump, who's been leading in most polls, is counting on conservative Republicans like Sharon Wilson of Madison. She said the former president has already proven he can do the job.

"He has done what he has said. I mean, he has kept us out of war. He has common sense," Wilson said. "I think he is the man of the hour."

— Anthony Brooks, WBUR

The six registered voters of tiny Dixville Notch in New Hampshire all cast their ballots for Nikki Haley at midnight on Tuesday, giving her a clean sweep over former President Donald Trump and all the other candidates. The resort town was the first place in the nation to vote in the 2024 primaries.

— The Associated Press