{"id":605898,"date":"2024-01-24T08:07:48","date_gmt":"2024-01-24T05:07:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/nikki-haley-refuses-to-quit-insisting-she-can-still-beat-trump\/"},"modified":"2024-01-24T08:07:48","modified_gmt":"2024-01-24T05:07:48","slug":"nikki-haley-refuses-to-quit-insisting-she-can-still-beat-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/nikki-haley-refuses-to-quit-insisting-she-can-still-beat-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"#Nikki Haley refuses to quit, insisting she can still beat Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>CONCORD, N.H. \u2014 From inside a hotel ballroom, with supporters whistling, screaming and bouncing campaign signs around her, Nikki Haley wasn\u2019t about to let this be her last stand.<\/p>\n<p>She had come too far to let it all go in one night, even as the pundits, the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a> and now another state\u2019s voters were nudging her toward the exits just hours earlier.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday night, fresh from a loss that followed a third-place finish in Iowa, Haley said she had too much fight in her to throw in the towel, despite Donald Trump\u2019s attempts to turn his sights on a <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a> election contest.<\/p>\n<p>On the night of her <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2024-election\/trump-aims-new-hampshire-primary-election-victory-rcna134578\" data-ylk=\"slk:second-place finish;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">second-place finish<\/a> in New Hampshire, Haley, the former United Nations ambassador and governor of South Carolina, pledged to plow forward to her home state, insisting she still had a path. <strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a> for all of them. New Hampshire is first in the nation. It is not the last,\u201d Haley said to cheers. \u201cThis race is far from over. There are dozens of states left to go, and the next one is my sweet state of South Carolina.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"caas-figure\">\n<div class=\"caas-figure-with-pb\" style=\"max-height: 828px\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"caas-img-container caas-img-loader\" style=\"padding-bottom:67%\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"caas-img caas-lazy has-preview\" alt=\"Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley speaks at her New Hampshire primary election night party in Concord on Jan. 22, 2024. (Matt Nighswander \/ NBC News)\" src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/NdkwTnNwv6noJx4u.Mep2w--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTEyNDI7aD04Mjg-\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/aol_nbc_universal_184\/98ab569770c43ec1653d3c9234d045e4\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley speaks at her New Hampshire primary election night party in Concord on Jan. 22, 2024. (Matt Nighswander \/ NBC News)\" src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/NdkwTnNwv6noJx4u.Mep2w--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTEyNDI7aD04Mjg-\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/aol_nbc_universal_184\/98ab569770c43ec1653d3c9234d045e4\" class=\"caas-img\"><\/noscript><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"caption-collapse\">Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley speaks at her New Hampshire primary election night party in Concord on Jan. 22, 2024. (Matt Nighswander \/ NBC News)<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Haley leaned into an argument that her path to beating Trump is one that\u2019s incremental \u2014 building along the way from polling at 2% at the start of the race nearly a year ago to becoming the last person standing against Trump and winning nearly half the vote in New Hampshire. She also took the chance to throw bombs at Trump and his electability.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith Donald Trump, Republicans have lost almost every competitive election. We lost the Senate. We lost the House. We lost the White House. We lost in 2018. We lost in 2020, and we lost in 2022,\u201d Haley said. \u201cThe worst-kept secret in politics is how badly the Democrats want to run against Donald Trump. They know Trump is the only Republican in the country who Joe Biden can defeat.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Long before the results were in, Haley world insisted it had every expectation of moving forward. Allies say the campaign has operated frugally since last year and still has gas in the tank.<\/p>\n<p>As of Tuesday night, she had fundraising <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trip<\/a>s planned for New York, California and Florida. An outside super PAC, Americans for Prosperity \u2014 which has provided on-the-ground support for Haley \u2014 said it didn\u2019t need to see an outright win in New Hampshire to keep moving forward; it was more important to promote a Republican who was electable enough to beat Biden and lift GOP candidates competing in lower-level races on the ballot.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAside from her really having a poor showing, we would continue. We are already laying the groundwork not just in South Carolina but in many of those Super Tuesday states,&#8221; Drew Klein, a senior adviser to AFP Action, said before the results. &#8220;We\u2019re planning now to move on to South Carolina and continue our efforts in that state and continue moving forward.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Haley still had a rally in Charleston planned for Wednesday and had already started spending money on a previously announced $4 million ad buy there.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNikki Haley shocked the world before. She did it numerous times in South Carolina politics,\u201d said Alex Stroman, the executive director of the South Carolina Republican Party. A strong Haley showing, he said, \u201csets it up for there to be 32 days of barnstorming the state. South Carolina is not New Hampshire and not Iowa; it is truly a microcosm of what the Republican Party looks like.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And he \u2014 as well as the campaign itself \u2014 noted that the state has open primaries, which means Democrats can vote in the election. Trump had railed against Haley in the run-up to New Hampshire, accusing her of <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2024-election\/nikki-haley-fights-prove-conservative-credentials-anti-trump-moderates-rcna135170\" data-ylk=\"slk:drawing Democratic support;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">drawing Democratic support<\/a> in a GOP primary.<\/p>\n<p>Haley\u2019s supporters, however, have stuck with her, saying she has demonstrated she could beat the odds in a crowded race against others who were polling higher and funded better.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHer catch phrase is \u2018slow and steady wins the race.\u2019 We\u2019re going to keep chipping away, adding voters, adding donors each day in each primary,\u201d said Bill Strong, a donor and member of Haley\u2019s campaign executive committee.<\/p>\n<p>With a third-place finish in Iowa followed by a second-place showing \u2014 out of two candidates \u2014 Haley still has an uphill battle.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has already locked down support of ranking Republicans in her home state, including Gov. Henry McMaster and a onetime GOP presidential contender, Sen. Tim Scott. Though there\u2019s a dearth of recent polls, those available laid out an uphill battle for Haley. In November, Trump led Haley 48% to 19% in a <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.winthrop.edu\/winthroppoll\/2023-november-winthroppoll-results.aspx\" data-ylk=\"slk:Winthrop University survey;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">Winthrop University survey<\/a>. Meanwhile, a Trump-aligned pollster released a survey claiming <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2024\/01\/19\/trump-nikki-haley-south-carolina-primary-poll-2024\" data-ylk=\"slk:a nearly 40-point lead;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">a nearly 40-point lead<\/a> in the state.<\/p>\n<p>Bill O&#8217;Brien, a Republican National Committeeman in New Hampshire who is neutral in the primary, said before the results came in that it would be tough for Haley to go on if she didn&#8217;t win one of the first two states.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI find it difficult to see an open avenue for her to go on to the nomination,\u201d O&#8217;Brien said, adding that he doesn&#8217;t think any other state &#8220;is going to be all that different.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Haley campaign has asserted that she has a path because more Super Tuesday states resemble New Hampshire than Iowa. O\u2019Brien, though, said it was a tough argument to make if she didn&#8217;t win New Hampshire.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday night, Trump&#8217;s allies attempted to move toward a general election posture and hit Haley for trying to move on.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNikki Haley said she\u2019s running to stop the re-election of Harris-Biden. Yet, without a viable path to victory, every day she stays in this race is another day she delivers to the Harris-Biden campaign,\u201d Taylor Budowich, the CEO of Make America Great Again Inc., said in a statement. \u201cIt\u2019s time for unity, it\u2019s time to take the fight to the Democrats, and for Nikki Haley: it\u2019s time to drop out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A senior Trump campaign official told NBC News that if Haley stays in the race, she will face a higher level of aggressiveness. The official said it would be focused on her record as governor and the idea that those who know her the best like her the least \u2014 but not personal attacks like the birther issue (which <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/donald-trump\/trump-promotes-baseless-birther-conspiracy-theory-nikki-haley-rcna133166\" data-ylk=\"slk:Trump has already brought up;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">Trump has already brought up<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Haley\u2019s supporters, led by her top surrogate \u2014 Gov. Chris Sununu \u2014 spent the closing days of the race in New Hampshire attempting to clap back at repeated suggestions that Haley had to win New Hampshire to move forward, accusing the media and the political elite of moving the goal posts for any measure of success.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRoughly 50 percent of Republican primary voters want an alternative to Donald Trump. Seventy-five percent of the country wants an option other than Donald Trump and Joe Biden. And while members of Congress, the press, and many of the weak-kneed fellas who ran for president are giving up and giving in \u2014 we aren\u2019t going anywhere,\u201d Haley campaign manager Betsy Ankney said in a memo released Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen it\u2019s on to Super Tuesday on March 5, where, despite the media narrative, there is significant fertile ground for Nikki. Eleven of the 16 Super Tuesday states have open or semi-open primaries. Of the 874 delegates available on Super Tuesday, roughly two thirds are in states with open or semi-open primaries,&#8221; she added in the memo.<\/p>\n<p>The conventional storyline was that New Hampshire\u2019s outsize number of independent voters created ideal conditions for a Haley win, because those seeking an alternative to Trump would congregate around her. But Trump, according to <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcboston.com\/news\/local\/with-desantis-out-trump-widens-lead-over-haley-in-nh-new-tracking-poll-shows\/3255217\/\" data-ylk=\"slk:tracking polls;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">tracking polls<\/a>, was locking down the Republican base.<\/p>\n<p>NBC News exit polls Tuesday showed there was <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2024-election\/live-blog\/new-hampshire-primary-live-updates-rcna134576\" data-ylk=\"slk:a healthy turnout of independents;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">a healthy turnout of independents<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Though Haley <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2024-election\/new-hampshire-republicans-disappointed-nikki-haley-fighting-trump-rcna134328\" data-ylk=\"slk:was initially slow to ramp up;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">was initially slow to ramp up<\/a> events in New Hampshire right after the Iowa results, she quickly changed course and darted around the state, with Sununu vigorously stumping for her along the way. She presented a case that she would bring generational change to a Republican Party that needed to leave behind the \u201cchaos\u201d of the Trump years. She also leaned in on her electability, citing poll results showing she could definitively defeat Biden in a general election, while the same surveys showed a Biden-Trump race would be a toss-up.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, a day after Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis dropped out of the race, former U.S. Sen. John Sununu, the governor\u2019s brother, scoffed at the suggestion that Haley was running in ideal conditions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis has only been a two-person race for 18 hours. You\u2019re being ridiculous,\u201d he said in an interview. \u201cThere are many [Super Tuesday] states where she already has great name ID and a great ground <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a>. 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