Nikki Haley is barnstorming across New Hampshire on Monday, vowing to stay in the GOP presidential race as another lawmaker from her home state endorsed Donald Trump and multiple polls show the former president with a double digit lead.
Haley and Trump found themselves in a one-on-one race for the Republican nomination after Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis dropped out of the race on Sunday and endorsed Trump.
The former president scored another back on Republican Rep. Nancy Mace endorsed Trump over Haley, who lives in her congressional district and supported her in 2022 against a Trump-backed challenger.
‘I don’t see eye to eye perfectly with any candidate. And until now I’ve stayed out of it,’ Mace said. ‘But the time has come to unite behind our nominee.’
Mace had stayed out of the race while two South Carolina politicians – Haley and Senator Tim Scott – were running. Scott endorsed Trump on Friday night.
Scott will return to the Trump campaign stage on Monday night when he, North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum and Vivek Ramaswamy appear join Trump at his rally in Laconia, N.H. All three former presidential candidates endorsed Trump when they exited the Republican race.
Nikki Haley is vowing to stay in the Republican presidential race
Haley has insisted she will stay in the race despite pressure from Team Trump to drop out if she loses on Tuesday.
‘Yesterday and today, I watched the entire political elite … and yesterday and today, I watched the entire media elite, say I should drop out and endorse Donald Trump,’ she said in New Hampshire on Monday.
‘Donald Trump won 56,000 out of 3 million voters in Iowa. He got 1.5% of the vote in Iowa.’
Daily Mail relies on video clips to report on Haley after she banned Daily Mail from covering her campaign after its exclusive report that Haley falsely denied cheating on her husband when she was accused of engaging in two extramarital affairs during her 2010 South Carolina gubernatorial campaign.
Trump campaign adviser Jason Miller told reporters at Trump’s rally in Manchester on Saturday that Haley needs to drop out of the race and support Trump. He said polls show she has no where to go to win the nomination.
‘There’s nowhere for Nikki Haley. There’s recent polling shows that she is down by 39 points in South Carolina,’ Miller said, pointing to the South Carolina officials who had endorsed Trump.
‘There’s nowhere for Haley to come. So after President Trump wins on Tuesday, Nikki Haley needs to drop out.’
![Donald Trump and his team have called on Nikki Haley to drop out if she loses to him in New Hampshire on Tuesday](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/01/22/16/80315139-12992513-image-a-14_1705942202275.jpg)
Donald Trump and his team have called on Nikki Haley to drop out if she loses to him in New Hampshire on Tuesday
![Republican Rep. Nancy Mace endorsed Trump over Haley, who lives in her congressional district in South Carolina](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/01/22/16/80315107-12992513-image-a-15_1705942208647.jpg)
Republican Rep. Nancy Mace endorsed Trump over Haley, who lives in her congressional district in South Carolina
![Nikki Haley campaigned for Rep. Nancy Mace in the 2022 election when Mace faced a primary challenge from a Trump-backed challenger](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/01/22/16/80316365-12992513-image-a-16_1705942233216.jpg)
Nikki Haley campaigned for Rep. Nancy Mace in the 2022 election when Mace faced a primary challenge from a Trump-backed challenger
New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu, who has endorsed Haley, on Sunday declined to say whether she intends to continue her campaign if she doesn’t win the primary in her home state of South Carolina, which holds the next contest in the GOP nomination process.
‘To be honest, not even looking at that right now. I’m looking at the next 72 hours,’ he said on NBC’s Meet the Press. ‘We’re going like gangbusters. She’s crisscrossing the state. She’s hitting every voter. She’s going everywhere.’
But when pressed, he simply said: ‘That’s a month away. I mean, it’s really a month away.’
Trump has taken swipes at Haley, touting the support he has from officials in her home state. At his campaign rally in Manchester on Saturday, he brought out South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster, the state’s lieutenant governor and a slew of other senior officials to show off his support.
‘Almost every politician from South Carolina is endorsing me. How do you do that if you’re governor?,’ Trump said of Haley, who served as governor of the state for six years.
Haley left the governor’s job to become Trump’s Ambassador to the United Nations when he was president.
![Nikki Haley served as Donald Trump's Ambassador to the U.N. - above the two in the Oval Office in October 2019](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/01/22/16/80316351-12992513-image-a-17_1705942241920.jpg)
Nikki Haley served as Donald Trump’s Ambassador to the U.N. – above the two in the Oval Office in October 2019
The former president told Fox News on Monday that he doesn’t see how Haley can win the Republican nomination.
‘I don’t see a path for her at all,’ he said of her presidential campaign.
And he said he was ‘very upset’ with her for running against him after he made her his ambassador to the U.N.
‘I would say with Nikki I haven’t done anything. I’m very upset with her,’ he said. ‘She worked for me like two and a half years. She was okay. Not great. She was okay. She said to everybody, in fact, when she left, I would never run against the president.’
South Carolina holds the next primary contest but it’s about a month away – on February 24th. Haley has announced she will hold a campaign event in Charleston on Wednesday, the day after New Hampshire’s primary.