Nikki Haley on Saturday launches a two-week bus tour in South Carolina, main as much as her dwelling state’s Feb. 24 Republican presidential major, the following contest on the GOP nominating calendar.
“I’m so excited for the Beast of the Southeast Bus Tour,” the previous two-term South Carolina governor who later served as U.N. ambassador in former President Donald Trump’s administration stated on social media Friday.
Haley faces an uphill climb for the GOP nomination towards her former boss, who’s the commanding frontrunner as he bids a 3rd straight time for the White Home.
Trump can even be within the Palmetto state this weekend, returning to marketing campaign in South Carolina for the primary time in two months.
TRUMP HITS THE JACKPOT IN LAS VEGAS
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at a caucus night time rally in Las Vegas Feb. 8, 2024. (AP Photograph/Mark J. Terrill)
After sweeping Nevada’s GOP presidential caucus Thursday, Trump had his eyes on South Carolina.
“Is there any manner we are able to name the election,” a buoyant Trump requested supporters at a victory celebration in Las Vegas, pointing to his double-digit lead within the newest polls within the upcoming major.
The Nevada caucus victory by the previous president was by no means doubtful. Trump was the one main candidate in a contest run by a pleasant state social gathering wherein solely registered Republicans may vote.
Trump’s convincing win in Nevada, the place 26 delegates have been at stake, got here hours after he received a landslide victory in a presidential caucus run by the U.S. Virgin Islands GOP.
And Thursday’s caucus in Nevada additionally got here two days after he was a winner in Nevada’s state-run Republican presidential major, despite the fact that he wasn’t on the poll.
Trump’s absence from the first poll wasn’t sufficient to supply a path to victory for Haley, who misplaced to a “none of those candidates” possibility by a greater than two-to-one margin in a major the place no GOP conference delegates have been at stake.
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Voters casting ballots within the major could not write in Trump’s title, however they might vote for “none of those candidates.” And Trump supporters Fox Information interviewed outdoors of polling stations stated that’s how they voted.
Republican voters wait in line to enter a GOP presidential caucus web site at Lois & Jerry Tarkanian Center College in Las Vegas Feb. 8, 2024 (Fox Information/Monica Oroz )
“So I might wish to congratulate not one of the above,” Trump stated on Thursday night time as he mocked Haley. “I used to be one in all them.”
Haley, who hadn’t campaigned in Nevada since October, downplayed this week’s major and caucus within the Silver State, saying in a Fox Information Digital interview in Los Angeles Wednesday that they weren’t “something we have been taking a look at” and charging that the caucus was “rigged” for Trump.
Trump received a majority of the vote within the Jan. 15 Iowa caucuses, and he topped Haley by 11 factors every week later within the New Hampshire major, when the nomination battle become a two-candidate race.
Haley, dealing with calls from some Republicans to finish her White Home bid, instructed supporters in California this week, “I’m on this for the lengthy haul.”
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Whereas South Carolina is dwelling for Haley, the previous president enjoys the backing of the state’s governor, almost the complete congressional delegation and scores of state lawmakers and native officers.
Veteran South Carolina-based Republican marketing consultant Dave Wilson pointed to Trump’s “groundswell” within the state and highlighted the previous president’s “floor forces.”
Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley waves to a crowd throughout a marketing campaign occasion at New Realm Brewing Co. Feb. 4, 2024, in Charleston, S.C. (AP Photograph/Sean Rayford)
Wilson additionally famous that “Nikki Haley is reintroducing herself to South Carolina” as a result of “nearly 1,000,000 individuals have moved into the statae since she was governor.”
However pointing to her undefeated electoral document, Wilson stated, “By no means underestimate Nikki Haley. By no means depend Nikki Haley out.”
Haley, wanting forward, reiterated that “our focus is on South Carolina, Michigan, Tremendous Tuesday.”
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Michigan holds its major Tuesday, Feb. 27, three days after the South Carolina Republican major. Fifteen states, together with the behemoths of California and Texas, maintain contests every week in a while Tremendous Tuesday.
Haley’s two marketing campaign stops on Wednesday in California have been her first thus far in any of the Tremendous Tuesday states.
Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley, a former U.N. ambassador and South Carolina governor, indicators autographs following a marketing campaign rally at American Legion Hollywood Put up 43 Feb. 7, 2024 in Los Angeles. (Fox Information/Paul Steinhauser)
The journey additionally included a collection of fundraisers. And as Fox Information Digital first reported on Wednesday, Haley hauled in $1.7 million in fundraising throughout her two days in California.
Haley instructed Fox Information Digital that, in terms of marketing campaign funds, “we now have been sensible.”
And she or he touted that you do not find yourself being “the final one standing towards Donald Trump if you happen to don’t handle your cash effectively. So, sure, we’re centered on ensuring we now have the assets.”
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