After Trump’s New Hampshire win, MAGA demands Haley drop out: “You lost”

Supporters of Donald Trump slammed his Republican rival, former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley, after she refused to drop out of the race despite losing to the former president in the New Hampshire Republican primary election.

As the polls closed in the Granite State at 8 p.m., the Associated Press (AP) called the race instantly, with 19 percent of the votes tallied. Trump, with 54.3 percent, defeated Haley, who received 44.7 percent, according to the outlet’s projections. Despite losing to the former president, Haley refused to suspend her campaign, saying, “This race is far from over.”

Haley’s perseverance seemed to anger some of Trump’s supporters, who took to social media to blast the MAGA leader’s lone rival.

Trump has long been the GOP front-runner in the polls, which also suggested that he would have no issue winning last week’s Iowa caucuses, where he was the overwhelming victor. While New Hampshire’s first-in-the-nation primary was expected to be a closer race, Trump was still predicted to come out on top.

Newsweek reached out via email on Tuesday night to representatives for Haley and Trump for comment.

Despite earning his second victory, the former president appeared agitated as he assailed Haley in his victory speech in Nashua, New Hampshire.

“Who the hell was the imposter that went up on the stage before and claimed a victory?” Trump said, also accusing her of “doing a speech like she won” the state.

Haley, in a speech shortly after the race was called in Trump’s favor, acknowledged the former president’s victory but remained defiant, pledging to stay in the race and questioning Trump’s mental fitness.

“He thinks he’d do better [on a mental test] than me. Maybe he would, maybe he wouldn’t. But if he thinks that, then he should have no problem standing on a debate stage with me,” Haley said.

Haley, who served as governor of South Carolina, said voters in her home state “don’t want a coronation” of the Republican primary.

“The political class is falling all over themselves, saying this race is over. I have news for all of them. New Hampshire is first in the nation—it is not the last in the nation,” Haley said.

Trump’s allies demanded that Haley call it quits and pledge loyalty to the former president, while sticking to the path of former GOP candidates Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy after they exited the race.

Representative Byron Donalds, a Florida Republican, posted on X, formerly Twitter, that New Hampshire was Haley’s “best chance” to win a primary election.

“Tonight was a BIG night for President Trump,” Donalds said in the post. New Hampshire was Nikki Haley’s best chance to win a state & she’s already down nearly DOUBLE DIGITS. NV, SC & FL also will not go well for her. This thing is OVER & we ALL know it.”

Conservative commentator Charlie Kirk said Haley staying in the race is helping Democratic President Joe Biden.

“There is no path for Nikki to be the nominee. There is a path to slow down Trump and help Biden. That is what she is doing by remaining in this race,” Kirk, founder of Turning Point USA, wrote on X.

Former Trump adviser Stephen Miller accused Haley of having Democrats vote for her in New Hampshire.

“Nikki Haley getting Democrats to vote in the Republican primary—and still losing by a substantial margin—only magnifies the severity and totality of her loss. (Only 47% of NH GOP primary voters were Republicans),” Miller posted on X.

The former president’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., also accused Haley of working with Democrats to try to secure a win.

“Nikki Haley’s swamp money and dirty tricks (teaming up with the Democrats) were no match for the great MAGA patriots in New Hampshire. We love you New Hampshire,” Trump Jr. wrote in an X post.

X user Del posted that Haley “needs to learn how to read a room. Ma’am YOU LOST.”