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Mr Trump carved out part of his victory speech to address Ms Haley, seemingly unhappy that she had not dropped out of the 2024 race, emphasising that she had a “very bad night.”

He blasted Ms Haley as an “imposter” who’s still “hanging around” despite coming third in the Iowa primary last week and failing to secure a win in New Hampshire.

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Rather than thank voters or commend Ms Haley’s performance – which is what the former UN ambassador did in her speech – Mr Trump said Ms Haley “failed badly” and mocked her for giving a speech.

Joined by former presidential candidates Vivek Ramaswamy and Tim Scott, Mr Trump invited Mr Ramaswamy to give his own remarks about Ms Haley, saying he was “the only person more angry, let’s say, than me”.

“But I don’t get too angry, I get even,” Mr Trump added – a commonly used threat by the former president.

Shortly after Donald Trump won in New Hampshire, Senator John Cornyn announced his support for him. Why does that matter? Because Cornyn is far from a Trumpist. In fact, the square-jawed Republican from Texas negotiated a gun bill alongside Democratic Senator Chris Murphy and then-Democratic Senator Kyrsten Sinema that Trump vehemently opposed. Cornyn’s support today shows that all Republicans — from the furthest right to the most moderate — are now falling into line behind the former president.

In fact, Trump continues to have Republican leaders get behind him save for one major voice: Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.

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,” Ms Haley told the crowd in Concord, New Hampshire. “There are dozens of states left to go … and the next one is my sweet state of South Carolina.”

She added: “I want to congratulate Donald Trump on his victory tonight, he earned it and I want to acknowledge that.”

“New Hampshire is first in the nation – it is not last in the nation.”

Clifford Robert, the attorney for Donald Trump Jr and Eric Trump in the civil fraud trial of the Trump Organization, has responded to a note from New York Attorney General Letitia James’s office regarding Martin Shkreli’s lifetime ban from the pharmaceutical industry following the case against him.

Prosecutors argue that it would not be unprecedented to apply the same punishment to the Trumps in the real estate industry.

Robert wrote in a new letter to Judge Arthur Engoron:

The Attorney General’s brazen attempt to compare this case to that of Martin Shkreli fully demonstrates her willingness to wield the power of her office recklessly in her crusade to destroy the front-running candidate for President of the United States. Indeed, this latest salvo reveals her desperation and obvious frustration with President Donald J. Trump’s (“President Trump”) ongoing ascent towards the White House. Left unchecked, the Attorney General’s conduct will cause irreparable damage to the legal system and the New York business community. The Court must and should therefore reject the Attorney General’s reliance on the Shkreli case as both misplaced and irresponsible.

The absurdity of the Attorney General’s latest effort would be almost comical but for the sobering future consequences of her shameless abuse of power. Citing the wholly inapposite Shkreli case, the Attorney General asks this Court to approve a baseless post hoc intervention into unquestionably successful and highly profitable business transactions between sophisticated corporate titans. Such shocking and tyrannical interference in the free markets for political gain places every New York business transaction at risk. This Court cannot and should not expose the legal system and the New York business community to such irreparable harm. The Attorney General is simply not allowed under Executive Law § 63(12) to scream “fraud” and impose the corporate death penalty without even bothering to bring forward one witness, one complaint or one victim!

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

Mr Trump’s decision to spread the lie that Democrats stole the election from him to whip his supporters into such a frenzy that they breached the US Capitol in an attempt to stop the certification of the 2020 presidential election offered Republicans — particularly ones who never particularly liked Mr Trump — the opportunity to get off the wagon. It gave them the chance to remove the virus of Trumpism, tell their voters it would not be allowed in the party, and keep the focus on weakening Joe Biden.

But the ex-president’s dominant win in the New Hampshire primary on 23 January, a week after a decisive win in Iowa, makes crystal clear what has been obvious all along – Donald Trump is going to be the 2024 Republican nominee. Despite more than 90 felony charges in four separate jurisdictions, Mr Trump retains an iron grip on the Republican Party. New Hampshire was Nikki Haley’s best shot at taking on Mr Trump, but the results were decisive and the Associated Press called the race for Mr Trump shortly after polls closed at 8pm.\

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

The former president, who is currently the 2024 Republican frontrunner, 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, Mr Trump’s margin of victory on Tuesday was much smaller.

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,” Ms Haley told the crowd in Concord, New Hampshire. “There are dozens of states left to go … and the next one is my sweet state of South Carolina.”

She added: “I want to congratulate Donald Trump on his victory tonight, he earned it and I want to acknowledge that.”

“New Hampshire is first in the nation – it is not last in the nation.”