Donald Trump Tells Supporter He Has 'Good-Looking Mom'

Former President Donald Trump told one of his supporters he has a "good-looking mom" while campaigning in New Hampshire.

Trump spoke to supporters in Londonderry on Tuesday as residents of the Granite State cast their votes in the crucial "first-in-the-nation" Republican primary election. Voters will pick between Trump and former U.N. Ambassador and South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, the last two remaining in the field. Polls showed Trump with a lead, but Haley's campaign has maintained confidence in her ability to compete with him amid her recent surge in polling.

In a video posted to X, formerly Twitter, by Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Georgia Republican and supporter of the former president, Trump was seen taking photographs with a supporter when he asked a woman near him how she was "related to" the supporter.

"You've got a good-looking mom," Trump told him, prompting laughter from the crowd.

Newsweek reached out to Trump's campaign for comment via email.

A poll conducted by Suffolk University, The Boston Globe and WBTS-CD from January 21 to 22 among 500 likely voters showed that Trump maintained a lead over Haley in the days leading up to the primary. Sixty percent of respondents said they planned to back Trump, while 38 percent said they would support Haley.

Haley has sought to convince New Hampshire voters she is a more electable alternative to Trump, pointing to several polls showing her leading President Joe Biden by a wider margin than Trump would in hypothetical general matchups. While Trump has sought to turn out his core base of supporters, Haley has appealed to more traditional conservatives and independent voters.

A Haley victory in New Hampshire would be viewed as an upset over the former president, who has largely maintained his support among Republican voters despite his legal woes and questions about whether he would be the stronger candidate against a Democrat.

Both Trump and Haley have spent recent days traversing New Hampshire, with Trump holding events in Laconia and Rochester, to make their final pitches to Republicans as to why they are the right candidate to lead the party in November.

The final days of the campaign have seen each candidate ramp up their attacks against each other, with Haley questioning Trump's fitness to serve and Trump attacking Haley as a "RINO," the acronym for "Republican in name only."

New Hampshire has the first primary election across the country but follows the Iowa caucuses, which saw Trump score a major victory against his rivals. Trump received 51 percent support in Iowa, while 21.3 percent of caucus-goers backed Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. Haley placed third, securing support from 19.1 percent of caucus-goers.

DeSantis has since dropped out of the race, throwing his support behind Trump.

Update 01/23/24 5:16 p.m. ET: This article was updated with additional information.