Trump calls Haley an ‘imposter’ who had a ‘very bad night’ in wild New Hampshire victory speech: Furious ex-president asks why Democrats were allowed to vote and insists ‘I don’t get angry, I get even’ – as crowd chants ‘birdbrain’
- Trump and his team are pressuring Nikki Haley to drop out of the race
- ‘We are going to win this. We have no choice. If we don’t win, I think our country is finished. I do. I believe our country is finished,’ Trump said
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Donald Trump slammed Nikki Haley for staying in the Republican presidential race as he claimed victory in New Hampshire on Tuesday night, calling her an ‘imposter’ and claiming she had a ‘very bad night.’
‘We beat her so badly,’ he told his cheering supporters as he mocked the ‘fancy dress’ she wore to deliver a post-primary speech.
He also pointed out Haley came in third in last week’s Iowa caucuses. And he noted Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who came in second in Iowa, has already left the race and endorsed him.
‘Ron beat her also. He came in second and he left. She came in third and she’s still hanging around,’ he complained.
‘In life you can’t let people get away with bulls***,’ he said. ‘You just can’t do that. When I watched her, the fancy dress, it probably wasn’t so fancy, I said what is she doing? We won.’
Trump ranted in his speech despite having won the New Hampshire Republican primary and tightened his grip on the GOP presidential nomination. His supporters cheered him on, calling Haley ‘birdbrain,’ while Haley’s campaign said his ‘rant’ was proof voters wanted to move on from his ‘chaos.’
‘This is not your typical victory speech, but let’s not have somebody take a victory when she had a very bad night. She had a very bad night,’ the former president said of Haley, who outperformed polls that had predicted she would lose by a wider margin.
He mocked Haley’s finish behind him again on a post on Truth Social insisting she came in ‘last’ and ‘not second.’
The former president, 77, is now inching closer to a re-match with Joe Biden in the November 2024 general election after winning his second contest in the space of eight days.
The Associated Press called the race shortly after polls closed at 8 p.m. ET. The victory came about a week after his win in the Iowa caucuses. Trump is the first GOP candidate in almost 50 years to sweep both contests, an indication of his iron grip on the Republican party. Meanwhile President Joe Biden won the Democratic contest despite not being on the ballot in New Hampshire.
But Trump spend the majority of his victory speech railing against Haley in comments that were a remarkable turn in tone from his Iowa speech last week, where he called for unity among Republicans.
Instead, he blamed New Hampshire’s Republican Gov. Chris Sununu for letting Democrats vote in the Republican primary.
