'I get even': Trump targets Haley after she pledges to keep fighting him following 2 losses

«I don't get too angry, I get even,» former President Donald Trump sniped on Tuesday night during his New Hampshire victory speech shortly after his former U.N Ambassador Nikki Haley, whom he'd just beaten by double digits, vowed to fight on against him for the 2024 Republican nomination.

«Who the hell was the imposter that went up on the stage before and like claimed a victory? She did very poorly,» Trump said at his election watch party in Nashua, New Hampshire, after it became clear that he had fended off Haley's challenge in the state where, so far, she has polled the best and where her allies had once predicted a «landslide.»

«She's doing like a speech like she won,» Trump continued. «She didn't win. She lost.»

That tone was a stark difference from his election night speech last week in Iowa, where he won a majority of the vote against three rivals but went on to praise his opponents, complimenting them on running good campaigns.

Two of those three hopefuls, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, quickly ended their White House bids and endorsed Trump. But not Haley. And on Tuesday night, she boasted of improving on the number of votes she got in Iowa (19%) compared to New Hampshire (43%).

Next up, she said, is South Carolina's primary a month away.

«South Carolina voters don't want a coronation. They want an election. And we're going to give them one,» she said. «Because we are just getting started.»

Haley, as Trump noted, has not yet won a primary or in the caucuses and polls show she faces huge challenges in winning over GOP voters elsewhere in the country. He currently leads her by more than 30 points in South Carolina, according to 538.

On Tuesday night, though, she called herself a «fighter» and