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GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley advised potential voters at a rally in Rock Hill, South Carolina on Sunday she “won’t ever hand over” on her bid for commander in chief so long as 70% of People say they don’t need former President Trump or President Biden in workplace.
Haley is campaigning forward of the Feb. 24 South Carolina major, the place she is going to face off in opposition to Trump.
Regardless of serving as Trump’s former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, the previous South Carolina governor didn’t maintain again on her makes an attempt to persuade the folks of her state that she would make a greater president than Trump.
“We had 14 folks within the race. We defeated a dozen of the fellas. I simply bought yet another I’ve bought to catch as much as,” Haley mentioned. “All people’s telling me, why don’t you simply get out. I’ll by no means hand over.”
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FILE – Republican presidential candidate former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley speaks at a marketing campaign occasion in Spartanburg, S.C., Monday, Feb. 5, 2024. Haley is launching a bus tour forward of South Carolina’s Feb. 24 Republican presidential major, hoping that the two-week endeavor will present the previous governor’s dedication to her residence state forward of its first-in-the-South vote. (AP Picture/Matt Kelley, File)
She advised these in attendance that going into Iowa, she polled at 2% and completed nearly second at 20%, then in New Hampshire, she completed at 43% of the vote.
After the New Hampshire outcomes got here in, Haley mentioned, Trump had “a mood tantrum,” including that he was unhinged as a result of he didn’t know she would get 43% of the vote.
“All he did was discuss revenge and my gown,” Haley advised the group. “Then the following day, he goes and says anyone that helps her is barred completely from MAGA.”
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Haley requested the group to consider Trump’s menace to bar folks from MAGA, saying main into an election, you attempt to convey folks into your nook and never push them out.
Like a lot of her speeches, she additionally pointed to Trump’s push for the Republican Nationwide Committee to call him the presumptive nominee after two states voted.
“We don’t anoint kings in America,” Haley mentioned. “Then we went and noticed his marketing campaign disclosures, and that’s after we noticed he spent $50 million of his marketing campaign contributions on his private court docket circumstances.”
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Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley and former President Donald Trump. (Al Drago/Bloomberg by way of Getty Photos)
Quite than discuss in regards to the American folks or points just like the $34 trillion in debt the nation is dealing with, Haley accused Trump of speaking about being a sufferer and getting his revenge.
“All he did was discuss himself, and that’s an issue,” she mentioned. “This isn’t about him.”
Haley additionally took digs on the Republican Occasion, inserting the blame for the nation’s $34 trillion debt not simply on Biden, but additionally Republicans, blaming Trump for placing the nation into $8 trillion debt in simply 4 years, and pointing to the $2.2 trillion COVID stimulus invoice that was handed “with no accountability.”
She mentioned Republicans expanded welfare, left 80 million People on Medicaid and 42 million People on meals stamps.
“Did Republicans attempt to make it proper,” Haley requested. “No, they doubled down and opened pet tasks and earmarks for the primary time in 10 years, passing for 7,000 of them final 12 months. Within the 2024 appropriations funds, Republicans put in $7.4 billion price of pet tasks. Democrats put in $2.8 billion. Now, you inform me who the massive spenders are.”
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Republican presidential candidate, former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley speaks at a rally in Dallas, Thursday, Feb. 15, 2024. (AP Picture/Tony Gutierrez)
The previous South Carolina governor additionally accused Trump of claiming any NATO nation that doesn’t pull their weight wouldn’t be defended by the U.S., doubling down that he would encourage Russian President Vladimir Putin to invade these international locations.
She accused Trump of siding with a “thug” and a dictator who arrests American journalists and maintain them hostage.
Haley additionally advised the group her opponent mocked her husband’s navy service, saying once you mock one navy member you mock all navy members, including that Trump has by no means been round a veteran, nor has he ever needed to lie on the bottom.
“The closest he’s come to hurt’s method is a golf ball hitting him on his golf course,” she mentioned.
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In her closing plea to these in attendance, Haley advised the group to vote early, volunteer and donate.
And when she mentioned she would by no means hand over, she went on to elucidate why.
“Why would I hand over when 70% of People have mentioned they don’t need Trump or Biden on this election? Why would I hand over when 59% of People say Donald Trump is simply too outdated and Joe Biden is simply too outdated,” she requested. “Why would I hand over when the vast majority of People disapprove of Joe Biden and a majority of People disapprove of Donald Trump? It’s time we lastly have a brand new generational conservative chief.”
Greg Wehner is a breaking information reporter for Fox Information Digital.
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Haley vows to ‘by no means hand over’ as she makes closing push forward of South Carolina major
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