Republican presidential candidate former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley speaks at a Bus Stop Tour campaign event at The George Hotel in Georgetown, S.C., Thursday, Feb. 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
Nikki Haley had a plan: Keep it close in the early primaries, then beat Donald Trump in her home state of South Carolina. Instead, Trump is poised for a lopsided win Saturday that would not only cement his presumed GOP presidential nomination, but also underscore the extent to which he has taken over the Republican Party.Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley campaigns in Georgetown, S.C., Thursday ahead of Saturday's primary.
She gives the former president credit for a booming economy that helped her get her start as a realtor; she sold a bunch of homes in 2019. "I was rocking it," McLaughlin said. But that's dried up now, with high interest rates. Though she's not expected to win in South Carolina, her campaign insists it will keep fighting, touting a seven-figure advertising spend for the Super Tuesday states voting on March 5.
Her supporters reminisced about Haley's achievements as governor during Thursday's rally in Georgetown. "Our country was a tinderbox," said Wilson, who has endorsed Haley. "Charleston didn't burn. Unlike other places in the country." "She's a candidate that is well-suited for 2004 in the Republican Party. And maybe not so much for 2024," he said. "She was governor at a different time. And I think that the Republican Party and the South Carolina electorate has changed in many ways."
Instead, she said, Trump should be siding with the U.S.'s friends, who rushed to its defence after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. The better Trump does on Saturday, his son said, the faster Haley will drop out, and the faster Trump can focus on his real fight: "Going after Joe Biden."At recent campaign events, Haley has joked about speculation around why she's stayed in the race: For a shot at the vice-presidency? Or to build her long-term political brand? In response, she claimed not to care about her political future.
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