After falling short against Trump in New Hampshire, Nikki Haley declares that the election is ‘far from over.’

After falling short against Trump in New Hampshire, Nikki Haley declares that the election is “far from over.”

According to polls, she will overcome President Joe Biden in November and outperform him in comparison to Trump. Her campaign makes the claim that she can win over undecided or independent voters.

Concord, New Hampshire — After losing to former President Donald Trump twice in a row in her quest to win the Republican nomination for president, Nikki Haley stood her ground and vowed to continue fighting on Tuesday.

“This race is far from over,” Haley informed her followers following the announcement of Trump’s victory in New Hampshire’s first-ever national primary.

Haley announced her intention to continue running two days after Florida Governor Ron DeSantis withdrew from the race and endorsed Trump, the most recent in a string of endorsements the former president has received. With 75% of the votes recorded, Haley was behind Trump in New Hampshire, 55% to 44%. Her chances are significantly worse in her home state of South Carolina, where Trump has enormous popularity.

However, Haley and her backers maintain that she still has a chance to win the GOP nominee. According to polls, she will overcome President Joe Biden in November and outperform him in comparison to Trump. Her team claims that she can win over independent or undecided voters who are disenchanted with both Biden and Trump and who are qualified to vote in numerous states’ open primaries.

She looked down at South Carolina.

Haley is currently focusing on South Carolina, the next state where voters will choose their presidential nominee. Haley was twice elected to office as governor of South Carolina. Haley hinted to the Super Tuesday primary in March, which would see voters from 16 states select their presidential candidate.

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In her concession speech, Haley stated that millions of voters would have a voice over the next two months and that “we should honor them and allow them to vote.”

Haley has now fallen to Trump twice in a week following her loss in New Hampshire. She finished third in last week’s Iowa caucuses, behind Trump and DeSantis.

Before the results of the New Hampshire primary were in, Haley’s campaign manager, Betsy Ankney, wrote a memo with a direct message to those who thought Haley ought to withdraw from the race.

We’re not leaving,” Ankney declared.

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Grabs at Trump and Biden

During her concession speech, Haley poked fun at Trump and Biden. She criticized Biden “for making one bad decision after another – when he’s making any decision at all.” With Donald Trump, according to her, “you have one bout of chaos after another – this court case, that controversy, this tweet, that senior moment.”

In addition, she made fun of the ages of the two men—Trump is 77 and Biden is 81—saying, “The party that wins this election will be the first to retire its 80-year-old candidate.”

Some Republicans argue that Haley’s decision to remain in the race may be justified in part due to Trump’s legal issues and the uncertainty they have created for the GOP contest. In four state and federal prosecutions, Trump has been indicted on 91 felony counts, including claims that he attempted to rig the 2020 election, which Biden won.

Republican strategist William F. B. O’Reilly, a native of New York, advised Haley, who held the position of U.N. ambassador under Trump, to continue campaigning through the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee in July, at the latest. When the party distributes its delegates to the contenders, it is when the contest will be declared formally over.

“With so much criminal litigation on the table for Trump, it would be ill-advised for Ambassador Haley to withdraw from the race after New Hampshire, win or lose,” he said. “The course of this contest could be completely altered by a single conviction. Why would she ever forfeit her position as the last-choice candidate?”

As the Trump cases wind down, Haley ought to keep highlighting her superior polling ratings over Biden, according to O’Reilly.

“The July convention in Milwaukee is a long way off,” he remarked. “Haley ought to be the obvious backup plan since she is still well-funded.”

Haley and Sununu dispute Trump’s “advanced age” on the day of the New Hampshire primary, saying, “We’ve seen him get confused.”

“Everyone needs to inhale deeply.”

Haley’s team released a three-page letter on Tuesday, outlining numerous reasons for continuing in the contest. The first was that surveys indicate most Americans would prefer to have an option other than Trump and Biden in November.

According to Ankney, independent voters have typically helped Republican candidates win, including Trump in 2016. Voting in the Republican primary is open to all individuals as long as they haven’t cast a ballot in the Democratic primary. South Carolina is the next state to hold elections and has no party registration requirements.

“Against all odds, South Carolina elected Nikki governor twice,” wrote Ankney. “…because they experienced Nikki’s strong conservative record firsthand, the people of South Carolina KNOW it.”

Haley told her supporters Tuesday night that she thought it would be more difficult for Donald Trump to wrongly attack her because South Carolina is her home state.

Still, Haley might face a challenging campaign in the Palmetto State. In a poll conducted last week, Trump led Hillary by 40 points in that category.

Following South Carolina are Michigan and its open primary, the District of Columbia’s closed primary, and the caucuses in North Dakota and Idaho. The open or semi-open primaries will be held on Super Tuesday in 11 of the 16 states that will be holding elections. Approximately two thirds of the 874 delegates up for grabs on Super Tuesday are located in states like Virginia, Texas, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Carolina, and Vermont that have open or semi-open primaries.

Ankney’s memo stated, “After Super Tuesday, we will have a very good picture of where this race stands.” Millions of Americans in 26 states and territories will have cast ballots by then.

“Until then, everyone should inhale deeply,” she continued. In none of these states has the campaign even started yet. There are no advertisements running, and the candidates are not canvassing the area. In politics, a month can last a lifetime.

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“She is drawing nearer and nearer.”

Voters in New Hampshire believed that Haley ought to remain in the contest regardless of the outcome of the state’s election.

A retiree who supported Haley on Tuesday, Janet Kelliher, declared, “We can’t have Trump in office again.”

Although Kelliher stated that “there needs to be some kind of a choice come November,” she added she is unsure if she would support Haley in the general election.

Retiree Mary Donovan expressed her gratitude that Haley is continuing in the campaign, even if she would have preferred for her to have performed better in New Hampshire. She puts in a lot of work, according to Donovan. “She intends to exert every effort possible.”

Despite the defeat in New Hampshire, Concord resident Allie Cable said she still intends to back Haley and has great expectations for her campaign. “I think she’s going to have a lot of momentum even though it was a loss tonight,” she remarked.

Manchester instructor Norine Calvano, who is retired, stated that Haley ought to “absolutely” continue in the race. Calvano, an independent registered voter, supported the outgoing governor of South Carolina. She stated, “I believe she’s someone who’s going to bring things back to somewhat normal.”

Atlanta-based lawyer Suzi Zeising went to New Hampshire to volunteer for Haley’s campaign alongside her friend Leah Aldridge.

Zeising remarked, “I have never been this excited about a candidate.” She truly inspires me. She is, in my opinion, the clear top applicant for the position. I believe that the majority of Americans don’t really want to see another Trump-Biden bout. I believed from the start that the only way we could prevent it was if Nikki ran as the Republican candidate. And she is drawing nearer and nearer.

Aldridge, an attorney based in Atlanta, thinks Haley stands to gain from DeSantis’s withdrawal from the campaign. There are still 49% of voters in Iowa, she added, despite Trump only receiving 51% of the vote there. “Where are they going to go? I believe that a sizable portion of them have concluded that Nikki is their candidate and that Trump is not. This is the start of something really significant.

Alongside Haley on her Tuesday visit to the Hampton polls, New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu stated that Haley had surpassed expectations.

However, Republican strategist Sarah Longwell, who founded Republican Voters Against Trump, stated she does not believe Haley has a chance to win.

However, Republican strategist Sarah Longwell, who founded Republican Voters Against Trump, stated she does not believe Haley has a chance to win.

According to Longwell, “the math is not there for her to win a Republican primary.” “I don’t see a single state that she can win going forward,” she continued.

John Feehery, a partner with the boutique lobbying firm EFB Advocacy, located in Washington, D.C., advised Haley to continue running if she thinks she has a good chance of winning. Given that the race is a one-on-one competition, Haley ought to have a good chance of winning, he said.

Feehery stated, “My impression is that Trump is in a far stronger position, though.”

He remarked that didn’t imply she should leave school just yet. He replied, “You never know what can happen, so Haley might as well hang in there just in case something does happen to Trump.”

According to Feehery, one tactic would be to keep obtaining delegates from states that do not give the winner all of their delegates, and then see what transpires at the convention.