GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley informed potential voters at a rally in Rock Hill, South Carolina on Sunday she “will never give up” on her bid for commander in chief so long as 70% of Americans say they don’t need former President Trump or President Biden in workplace.
Haley is campaigning forward of the Feb. 24 South Carolina main, the place she’s going to face off in opposition to Trump.
Despite 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 individuals of her state that she would make a greater president than Trump.
“We had 14 people in the race. We defeated a dozen of the fellas. I just got one more I’ve got to catch up to,” Haley mentioned. “Everybody’s telling me, why don’t you just get out. I will never give up.”
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She informed 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 temper 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 talk about revenge and my dress,” Haley informed the group. “Then the next day, he goes and says anybody that supports her is barred permanently from MAGA.”
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Haley requested the group to consider Trump’s menace to bar individuals from MAGA, saying main into an election, you attempt to convey individuals into your nook and never push them out.
Like a lot of her speeches, she additionally pointed to Trump’s push for the Republican National Committee to call him the presumptive nominee after two states voted.
“We don’t anoint kings in America,” Haley mentioned. “Then we went and saw his campaign disclosures, and that’s when we saw he spent $50 million of his campaign contributions on his personal court cases.”
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Rather than discuss in regards to the American individuals or points just like the $34 trillion in debt the nation is going through, Haley accused Trump of speaking about being a sufferer and getting his revenge.
“All he did was talk about himself, and that’s a problem,” she mentioned. “This isn’t about him.”
Haley additionally took digs on the Republican Party, inserting the blame for the nation’s $34 trillion debt not simply on Biden, but in addition 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 Americans on Medicaid and 42 million Americans on meals stamps.
“Did Republicans try to make it right,” Haley requested. “No, they doubled down and opened pet projects and earmarks for the first time in 10 years, passing for 7,000 of them last year. In the 2024 appropriations budget, Republicans put in $7.4 billion worth of pet projects. Democrats put in $2.8 billion. Now, you tell me who the big spenders are.”
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The former 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 nations.
She accused Trump of siding with a “thug” and a dictator who arrests American journalists and maintain them hostage.
Haley additionally informed the group her opponent mocked her husband’s navy service, saying whenever 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 harm’s way is a golf ball hitting him on his golf course,” she mentioned.
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In her ultimate plea to these in attendance, Haley informed 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 give up when 70% of Americans have said they don’t want Trump or Biden in this election? Why would I give up when 59% of Americans say Donald Trump is too old and Joe Biden is too old,” she requested. “Why would I give up when the majority of Americans disapprove of Joe Biden and a majority of Americans disapprove of Donald Trump? It is time we finally have a new generational conservative leader.”