Trump calls Haley an ‘imposter’ in wild New Hampshire victory speech

Donald Trump slammed Nikki Haley for staying within the Republican presidential race as he claimed victory in New Hampshire on Tuesday night time, calling her an ‘imposter’ and claiming she had a ‘very dangerous night time.’

‘We beat her so badly,’ he advised his cheering supporters.

He additionally identified Haley got here in third in final week’s Iowa caucuses. And he famous Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who got here in second in Iowa, has already left the race and endorsed him.

‘Ron beat her additionally. He got here in second and he left. She got here in third and he or she’s nonetheless hanging round,’ he complained.

‘In life you’ll be able to’t let folks get away with bulls***,’ he mentioned. ‘You simply cannot do this. When I watched her, the flamboyant gown, it in all probability wasn’t so I mentioned, what’s she doing? We gained.’ 

Trump ranted in his speech regardless of having gained the New Hampshire Republican main and tightened his grip on the GOP presidential nomination. His supporters cheered him on, calling Haley ‘birdbrain,’ whereas Haley’s marketing campaign mentioned his ‘rant’ was proof voters wished to maneuver on from his ‘chaos.’

‘This shouldn’t be your typical victory speech, however let’s not have anyone take a victory when she had a really dangerous night time. She had a really dangerous night time,’ the previous president mentioned of Haley, who outperformed polls that had predicted she would lose by a wider margin.

The former president, 77, is now inching nearer to a re-match with Joe Biden within the November 2024 common election after successful his second contest within the area of eight days.

The Associated Press known as the race shortly after polls closed at 8 p.m. ET. The victory got here a few week after his win within the Iowa caucuses. Trump is the primary GOP candidate in virtually 50 years to comb each contests, a sign of his iron grip on the Republican get together. Meanwhile President Joe Biden gained the Democratic contest regardless of not being on the poll in New Hampshire.

But Trump spend nearly all of his victory speech railing towards Haley in feedback that had been a exceptional flip in tone from his Iowa speech final week, the place he known as for unity amongst Republicans.

Instead, he blamed New Hampshire’s Republican Gov. Chris Sununu for letting Democrats vote within the Republican main.

The majority of New Hampshire voters are impartial and might vote in whichever main they select. State regulation permits voters registered to at least one get together to change to an impartial in an effort to vote in both main they like. But there was an October deadline to make the change.

Haley gained impartial voters on Tuesday. 

‘You have a governor who frankly would not know what the hell he is doing on this state,’ Trump complained. ‘In the Republican main they settle for Democrats too.’

‘They’re solely voting as a result of they need me to look as dangerous as doable, as a result of, should you bear in mind, we gained in 2016, and should you actually bear in mind and also you need to play it straight, we additionally gained in 2020.’

He would not let up on Haley, nevertheless, calling her an ‘imposter’ who claimed victory. 

‘I mentioned, I can go up and say to all people, thanks for the victory, it is great, or I can go up and say, who the hell was the imposter that went up on the stage earlier than and, like, claimed a victory? She did very poorly, really. She needed to win. The governor mentioned she’s going to win, then she failed badly.’

Haley, in her remarks in New Hampshire, congratulated Trump on his victory however vowed to remain within the Republican presidential race. 

And her marketing campaign mentioned Trump’s ‘rant’ was why voters wished another choice.

‘Two states have now voted within the presidential race, and Donald Trump barely acquired half of the vote – not precisely a ringing endorsement for a former president demanding a coronation,’ mentioned Haley communications director Nachama Soloveichik. 

‘His offended rant was stuffed with grievances and provided the American folks nothing about his imaginative and prescient for our nation’s future. This is why so many citizens need to transfer on from Trump’s chaos and are rallying to Nikki Haley’s new technology of conservative management.’ 

Trump would not let up on Haley, nevertheless. She had served as his ambassador to the U.N. throughout his presidency. 

‘I do not get too offended , I get even,’ Trump mentioned.

The former president additionally warned Haley she would not win and, if she did, she too would come below authorities investigations. Trump has falsely claimed to be the sufferer of federal witch hunt due to the courtroom instances towards him.

‘Just slightly word to Nikki, she’s not going to win. But if she did, she can be below investigation by these folks in quarter-hour,’ he mentioned, including ‘so would Ron [DeSantis] have been, however he determined to get out. He determined to get out.’

He completed his remarks with this: ‘We are going to win this. We haven’t any selection. If we do not win, I feel our nation is completed. I do. I imagine our nation is completed.’

Trump and his group have been utilizing his victories to stress Nikki Haley to drop out of the presidential race. 

Trump’s marketing campaign used his victory to name on Haley to drop out, accusing her of  serving to Joe Biden and Kamala Harris by staying within the race. 

‘Nikki Haley mentioned she’s working to cease the re-election of Harris-Biden. Yet, with no viable path to victory, day by day she stays on this race is one other day she delivers to the Harris-Biden marketing campaign. It’s time for unity, it is time to take the combat to the Democrats, and for Nikki Haley: it is time to drop out,’ mentioned Taylor Budowich, CEO of Make America Great Again Inc., in a press release.

Haley, nevertheless, has vowed to combat on, declaring after Trump’s win that the race is ‘not over.’

‘I need to congratulate Donald Trump on his victory tonight. He earned it, and I need to acknowledge that. You have all heard the chatter among the many political class. They are falling throughout themselves, saying this race is over,’ she mentioned at her main night time get together.

‘It’s not over!,’ she declared as her supporters cheered. 

‘New Hampshire is first within the nation. It shouldn’t be the final within the nation. This race is much from over. There are dozens of states left to go.’

According to the CNN exit ballot, Nikki Haley gained ikndependents voters 61%-37% over Trump. She has used her power amongst them to argue there’s a robust portion of the get together that wishes a substitute for the previous president. 

Earlier Tuesday, earlier than polls closed, the previous president shrugged it off.

‘I do not care if she stays in. Let her do no matter she desires, it would not matter,’ Trump mentioned of Haley when he campaigned in Londonderry on Tuesday afternoon.

However, after the outcomes got here in and Haley vowed to proceed, Trump took to his Truth Social account to rail towards his GOP rival.

He raged in a sequence of publish, utilizing the all caps to make his level: ‘Haley mentioned she needed to WIN in New Hampshire. SHE DIDN’T!!!.’

‘DELUSIONAL!!!’ 

‘SHE CAME IN THIRD LAST WEEK!’ 

‘SHE JUST LOST NEVADA, WHICH IS UP NEXT!’ 

Due to a quirk within the Nevada caucus guidelines, on Trump and Ron DeSantis, who has already dropped out of the race, are on the poll in that state. The subsequent aggressive race is Haley’s dwelling state of South Carolina.  

Donald Trump Jr. argued on Monday that Haley would not have a path ahead and will drop out. Other Trump surrogates have additionally pushed for her to exit.  

‘I feel we will see the tip of the first, hopefully later tonight,’ Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene mentioned Tuesday morning as she campaigned for Trump on the Red Arrow Diner in Manchester. ‘It’d be a good selection for Nikki Haley if she drops out after this election. It’s shouldn’t be going to go effectively for her.’

And the Biden marketing campaign used Trump’s victory to declare him the nominee.

‘Tonight’s outcomes verify Donald Trump has all however locked up the GOP nomination, and the election denying, anti-freedom MAGA motion has accomplished its takeover of the Republican Party,’ Campaign Manager Julie Chavez Rodriguez mentioned in a press release.

‘While we work towards November 2024, one factor is more and more clear right now: Donald Trump is headed straight right into a common election matchup the place he’ll face the one particular person to have ever crushed him on the poll field: Joe Biden,’ she mentioned.

The majority of polls closed in New Hampshire at 7 p.m. and all polls closed at 8 pm. As quickly because the screens at Trump’s main get together revealed his win, his supporters went wild, chanting ‘USA, USA’ and throwing their purple MAGA caps into the air.

Trump is holding his election night time get together on the Sheraton resort in Nashua, N.H. Ahead of polls closing, the temper was jovial with marketing campaign workers mingling with company. There was an open bar and snack meals. 

Eric Trump and his spouse Lara joined the marketing campaign group for dinner within the resort restaurant.  They bumped into Vivek Ramaswamy on their approach out and stopped for a powpow. Kari Lake is working the press space, speaking up Trump’s marketing campaign. Former Rep. George Santos was in line on the bar. Senator Tim Scott was working the room.

Other company took footage in entrance of backdrop of flags as big TV screens performed out the cable information nets whereas the countdown to outcomes was on. 

About 40% of New Hampshire’s registered voters aren’t affiliated by get together, they usually can vote in both main. 

With Tuesday night time’s win and his victory in Iowa caucuses final Monday, Trump set a brand new document.

He grew to become the primary Republican presidential candidate to prevail in open races in Iowa and New Hampshire since each states started main the election calendar in 1976.

The wins present his maintain on the get together and casts extra doubt on Haley’s means to dent it at the same time as an Associated Press exit ballot discovered that extra voters in New Hampshire had doubts about Trump than did voters in Iowa.

About half of New Hampshire Republican voters mentioned they had been very or considerably involved that Trump is just too excessive to win the final election. Only about one-third mentioned the identical about Haley. 

Trump led within the polls by double digits within the run-up to Election Day. But Haley argues there’s a massive swath of impartial voters on the market who do not need to vote for the previous president.

‘Roughly 50 % of Republican main voters need a substitute for Donald Trump. Seventy-five % of the nation desires an choice aside from Donald Trump and Joe Biden,’ her marketing campaign wrote in a memo on Tuesday morning. 

They level to the Iowa caucuses as proof of their argument.

The 110,000 voters who participated within the 2024 Iowa caucuses accounted for slightly below 15% of the state’s 752,000 registered Republicans, in line with the outcomes. And it is a far decrease quantity than the 186,000 who got here out in 2016. 

But Trump’s double wins are resulting in a rising sense of inevitability that the 2024 common election shall be a repeat of the 2020 contest: Trump vs. Biden. Polls present most Americans do not need a rematch even because the nation marches towards one. 

After he gained the Iowa caucuses – by 30 factors – former President Trump known as on the Republican Party to come back collectively behind his candidacy.

Many GOP presidential contenders bowed out of the race and endorsed him: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, South Carolina Senator Tim Scott, North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum and Vivek Ramaswamy. 

Trump will head west after the first to marketing campaign in Nevada. He’s additionally nonetheless coping with the Jean Carroll defamation trial in New York.

Haley has introduced she’s going to maintain a marketing campaign occasion in Charleston on Wednesday, the day after New Hampshire’s main, forward of South Carolina’s main. Haley’s dwelling state holds its nominating contest in a month on February twenty fourth.