Maggie Haberman Rips Trump’s ‘Astonishing’ Scorched-Earth Victory Speech: ‘You Would Have Thought He Lost!’
New York Times correspondent and CNN analyst Maggie Haberman ripped former President Donald Trump’s “astonishing” New Hampshire victory speech, calling it “the most scorched-earth victory speech I have ever seen.”
Trump was declared the victor in Tuesday night’s New Hampshire primary, and delivered what Tapper described as an “angry” victory speech in which he lashed out at ex-Amb. Nikki Haley and others.
On Wednesday night’s edition of CNN’s The Source with Kaitlan Collins, anchor Kaitlan Collins asked Haberman if Trump and his campaign see the “vulnerabilities” exposed by the NH election, but Haberman made a point of steering around to a critique of Trump’s speech:
COLLINS: Does the campaign see, does he see the vulnerabilities that were also exposed, last night? Not for Republican primary, but for the general election?
HABERMAN: Some folks do. I just want to take a pause, for one sec, though, to your point that he won last night. It was the most scorched-earth victory speech I have ever seen. I mean, it was — it was astonishing! You would have thought he lost, based on the speech that he gave.
And look, Nikki Haley, absolutely, seized the moment, and went ahead of him, while the voting was still tighter. It’s not new in politics. This is just sort of a thing people do. Bill Clinton very famously did it in 1992, in New Hampshire. He called himself the Comeback Kid, he did not win. So this–
COLLINS: And she congratulated him on his win.
HABERMAN: And she said he won. She was clearly very aware of that. So, I just think that’s worth noting, because it was quite something, number one.
Number two, they’re not sure what to make of these numbers, because remember, it’s the — the unaffiliated voters, many of them, are still pretty Democrat-leaning. And so, they’re not sure what a harbinger this is, for the rest of the country.
What they are aware of is the number of Republicans, who say a criminal conviction would be a problem, for them, in terms of seeing him as fit for office. And so, it really, a lot of this comes down to the court cases. And I think that is just going to be the story of this election.
COLLINS: Yes, absolutely.
Watch above via CNN’s The Source with Kaitlan Collins.
