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

Here’s John Bowden’s analysis on why Trump’s challenger is hanging on in there when, to the casual observer, all hope appears to be lost.

A reminder that the second defamation trial of Donald Trump brought against him by writer E Jean Carroll will now resume on Thursday and not Wednesday as previously scheduled.

Judge Lewis Kaplan will continue presiding over the case in Lower Manhattan at 9.30am on 25 January.

Here’s our earlier reporting on the initial postponement.

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.