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Donald Trump turned on former White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany, calling her a “RINO” after she criticized his victory speech in New Hampshire.
Trump rips Nikki Haley
After winning the New Hampshire primary on Tuesday, Trump used much of his speech to attack rival Nikki Haley, blasting her as a “charlatan” and adding: “I don't get angry so much, I even get even.”
“We hit her hard,” Trump said of Haley, according to the Daily Mail. “Ron [DeSantis] Hit her too. He came in second and left. She came in third place and is still touring.
“In life, you can't let people run away from bulls,” he added. “You can't do that. When I saw her, in her fancy dress, maybe it wasn't that, I said, 'What are you doing? We won.'
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McEnany's advice to Trump: Respond
This didn't sit well with McEnany, who gave Trump some advice while commentating on Fox News.
“President Trump, I'm going home tonight. I'm going to the victory party. I'm going to celebrate. I've made history again. But then I'm going to go home and look under the hood,” she said.
She continued: “And when you look at Fox News Channel's voter analysis data, you find that 32% of Republicans say: We will not vote for Trump.” “So I go home, and if I’m Trump, I celebrate. And then I say, ‘I have to unify this party.’ I have to win independents. That’s how I beat Biden.”
But Trump was having none of that.
“I don't need any advice from Reno Kayleigh McEnany on Fox,” he responded on social media.
He added: “I just had a huge victory over a very unsuccessful candidate, Birdbrain, and she (McEnany) is telling me what I can do better.” “Save your advice for Nikki!”
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McEnany says Trump is the 'presumptive nominee'
Trump said this despite McEnany's admission that he was the “presumptive nominee.”
“I would suggest adopting a general election tone is what you do at this point, and that's why I'm saying this,” she said. “This was actually a fairly good night for Joe Biden. When you look at our voter analysis, only 10% said, “I wouldn't vote for Joe Biden if he was the nominee.” He won a large number of voters who said he was old, and he won a majority of voters who were upset about the Gaza war.”
“When you look at the Republican Party, seven out of 10 Nikki Haley voters said, ‘I won’t vote for Trump.’” “There was a poll in Des Moines, 43 percent said, ‘No, I won’t vote for Trump,’” McEnany added. “If I were Trump, I would sit back and focus exclusively on the general election. I'm taking the position of the presumptive nominee. I'm focused on, one, uniting the party, and two, winning independents, which Nikki Haley won 55-39%. That's what I'll do.”
McEnany was Trump's final press secretary during his time in office, and after spending so much time with the former president, she shouldn't have been surprised that he felt the need to get back at her if he took what she was saying as disparaging.
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