'Rock star president': Trump supporters celebrate New Hampshire win

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00:00 Well, former U.S. President Donald Trump steamrolled to victory in New Hampshire Tuesday, cementing

00:04 his position as the shoo-in Republican nominee.

00:08 With about 80 percent of the votes counted, Trump was ahead of his rival, former South

00:12 Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, by about 11 percentage points.

00:16 Haley, though, still vowing to fight on and hedging her bets on the primary coming up

00:20 in her home state of South Carolina.

00:24 So this is a great evening.

00:25 And it is, you know, we are going to Nevada for a little while.

00:28 We're not going to have to do too much.

00:30 We have a great team there.

00:31 But it's a team that we can now send someplace else.

00:34 They did a fantastic job.

00:35 But we and it's a fantastic place, really a fantastic place.

00:40 But we'll be leaving there very quickly.

00:42 We'll head out to South Carolina, where I think we're going to win easily.

00:44 I think we're 50 points up, 5 0, 5 0, 50 points up on a person that was governor.

00:50 That tells you something.

00:52 I want to congratulate Donald Trump on his victory tonight.

00:56 He earned it.

00:57 And I want to acknowledge that.

01:00 Now you've all heard the chatter among the political class.

01:05 They're falling all over themselves, saying this race is over.

01:09 Well, I have news for all of them.

01:13 New Hampshire is first in the nation.

01:16 It is not the last in the nation.

01:20 Our correspondent, Fraser Jackson, has been following the campaign for us.

01:23 He was at Donald Trump's victory speech in New Hampshire last night and gave us the latest

01:27 from there.

01:29 Donald Trump defeated Nikki Haley in New Hampshire's primaries, the second state in a row that

01:34 he bested the former South Carolina governor.

01:37 We spent the evening at Trump's rally and spoke to some of his supporters to see why

01:41 he's the man for them.

01:43 Now we get our economy back.

01:45 When Donald Trump was in the White House, we had the best economy we've had in 50 years.

01:52 The border was closed.

01:54 No illegals crossing in and ending up who knows where.

01:58 His economic policies, that's what I voted for.

02:02 And I don't care if people don't like his personality.

02:07 I say too bad because that's what I love about him.

02:12 I love his personality.

02:14 He's real.

02:15 He's not a politician.

02:18 OK, here we go.

02:21 It's going to be on first day of his administration.

02:24 He's going to close those borders up and he's going to depart everybody and he's going to

02:27 drill, baby, drill.

02:29 Trump rally is the greatest show on earth.

02:33 That'll leave you a wonderful leader.

02:34 He's enormously entertaining and he's really funny.

02:36 He would've been a great standup comedian.

02:38 Donald Trump is our first rock star superhero president.

02:44 He's the real life Tony Stark.

02:45 He's president Iron Man.

02:48 Donald Trump then defeating Nikki Haley, but by a much smaller margin than he had in Iowa.

02:53 Nikki Haley hoping to capitalize on that momentum as she heads into the next caucus in Nevada

02:58 and her home state of South Carolina in around a month's time.

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