Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley won the Republican primary in the District of Columbia, marking her first victory of the 2024 campaign.
Her victory on Sunday temporarily halts Trump’s sweep of the GOP voting contests, though the former president is expected to gain several hundred more delegates in this week’s Super Tuesday races.
Despite her early losses, Haley has stated that she intends to remain in the race at least through those contests, though she has declined to name any primary that she believes she will win.
Following last week’s loss in her home state of South Carolina, Haley remained adamant that voters in the states that followed deserved an alternative to Trump despite his early campaign dominance.
“Some of you — perhaps a few of you in the media — came here today to see if I’m dropping out of the race,” she said. “Well, I’m not. Far from it,” said Haley following the South Carolina primary.
Haley also rejected the idea that she would make an independent bid for the White House while meeting with reporters on Friday in Washington, D.C., where it appears liberal Republicans may hand her the first victory of the primary campaign.
During the session, she claimed she is a “happy warrior” and that her campaign has been “where people want to be heard.”
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By that, Haley said, she meant Republicans who feel they’ve been drowned out and dismissed by Trump’s MAGA army.
As the Times reported, Haley “hopes to convince voters she’s someone who can lead the country in a better direction while casting herself as a ‘pro-America’ candidate who’s an alternative to the former president.”
“Everybody pretty much assumes that this is an anti-Trump movement, and it is actually not,” Haley told reporters. “This is a movement where people want to be heard.”
Continuing, Haley said Trump’s position is “if you’re not with me, you’re against me.”
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Against that backdrop, the Times noted, Haley “wants to help the Republican Party expand its appeal to more moderate voters who may recoil from President Trump’s tough-talking style of politics, which she suggested fuels division.”
“This is about the fact that I think America is better than this. And I think that the Republican Party is better than this, and I think we can do more than this,” she told the journalists.
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