Trump gloats in victory speech after winning New Hampshire primary: Live

In addition to being annoyed about his rival’s refusal to drop out last night, Trump was also infuriated by his own former White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany, now a Fox News host, who had the temerity to admit on air that the New Hampshire primary “was actually a fairly good night for Joe Biden”.

Speaking during the network’s coverage last night, she told co-anchor Bret Baier that Trump should be looking to adopt a more presidential tone in his public addresses from now on.

“I would suggest that adopting a general election tone is what you do at this point, and here’s why I say this.

“This was actually a fairly good night for Joe Biden. When you look at our voter analysis, only 10 per cent said, ‘I would not vote for Joe Biden if he’s the nominee.’

“He won a plurality of voters who said he was too old, he won a majority of voters who were upset about the Gaza war.”

Her old boss was sent into a rage by this and called her a “RINO” on Truth Social (a Republican In Name Only, for the uninitiated) and fumed: “Save your advice for Nikki!”

Former Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr has reacted with disbelief to footage of the band’s 1984 song “Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want” being played at a Trump rally in Laconia, New Hampshire, on Monday night.

“Ahh…right…OK. I never in a million years would’ve thought this could come to pass. Consider this s*** shut right down right now,” Marr wrote on X.

One of the candidate’s better arguments in her speech last night was that the front-runner is in fact a serial election loser whom the Democrats think Biden can beat.

Her staff have been on typically aggressive form in their messaging this morning too, hitting back at Trump’s attacks overnight.

Kelly Rissman has this on their retorts to the former president.

Speaking of loveable rogues, the disgraced former New York congressman was there too.

He told a member of the German press that he has no intention of lobbying to be Trump’s veep: “No! I don’t want to! I’m 35 years old, leave me alone!”

The former president’s attorney Alina Habba was seen at his New Hampshire victory party a day after she said she was feeling unwell and displayed possible Covid symptoms.

Habba is representing the former president in the New York civil defamation case brought by E Jean Carroll after he was found liable for sexually abusing her, which is currently set to resume on Thursday after Monday’s postponement.

Trump’s challenger insists that the party’s primary race is “far from over” despite her latest defeat, her defiant tone very much getting up the victor’s nose.

The former South Carolina governor remained upbeat at her primary night rally in New Hampshire on Tuesday, with predictions that she will pick up more delegates than expected from the Granite State.

“This race is far from over,” Haley told the crowd in Concord. “There are dozens of states left to go… and the next one is my sweet state of South Carolina.”

She told her supporters: “I’m a fighter and I’m scrappy.” And, if nothing else, she’s certainly proved that.

In case you overslept, here’s your reminder that former US president Donald Trump won the New Hampshire Republican primary on Tuesday night, taking another step towards securing his party’s nomination for the 2024 presidential election.

The Associated Press called shortly after polls closed in the state. With less than 20 per cent of results in by 8pm, Trump had already secured an insurmountable lead over his opponent Nikki Haley, with more than 54 per cent of the vote.

The former president, who is currently the 2024 Republican front-runner, was expected to perform well in the Granite State given his stronghold over the majority of the Republican Party. However, unlike his performance in Iowa last week, Trump’s margin of victory on Tuesday was much smaller.

With a larger-than-expected independent voter turnout, Haley performed well in more liberal-leaning counties like Dover, Concord and Keene – early data indicated.

Although she lost the primary, her campaign said they would continue campaigning to the next primary in her home state of South Carolina.

Here’s Ariana Baio with a full report.

In the days after the attack on the US Capitol, former president Donald Trump seemed on the verge of becoming a politician in exile.

Many Republicans directly blamed him, including Kevin McCarthy, who said “the president bears responsibility” for the attack.

Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell excoriated Trump by saying that “people who stormed this building believed they were acting on the wishes and instructions of their president”.But an awful lot has changed since then.

Here’s Eric Garcia on Trump’s stunning revival.

Clearly delighted to chalk up another victory, Donald Trump has spent the early hours of the morning flooding his social network with clips from Fox News glorifying his New Hampshire triumph and assuring their viewers the Republican presidential nomination is all but his.

However, he has also been expressing annoyance that Nikki Haley has refused to fold and announce the suspension of her campaign.

He also attacked her in his address in Nashua last night, calling her an “imposter” and declaring: “She’s doing a speech like she won. She didn’t win, she lost… Let’s not have somebody take a victory when she had a very bad night.”

Another observation: he appears to have pivotted to attacking her intelligence, calling her “Birdbrain” rather than the rather more racist “Nimbra” (see also SNL’s “Ron DeStupid” from last weekend’s opening monologue).

Supporters, including his son Eric Trump, have meanwhile been circulating this gloating tweet from favourite conservative poster Catturd.

Donald Trump threatened that Nikki Haley will be “under investigation” if she ends up beating him in the Republican presidential primary after defeating her in New Hampshire.

The former president appeared to threaten his former UN ambassador after she vowed to continue her fight for the 2024 GOP nomination.

“Just a little note to Nikki, she is not going to win, but if she did she would be under investigation by those people in 15 minutes, I could tell you five reasons why already, not big reasons, little stuff that she doesn’t want to talk about, but she will be under investigation in minutes,” said Trump to a crowd of his supporters on Tuesday night.

Here’s Graeme Massie with more.