Nikki Haley ignores embarrassing Nevada primary loss and slams Trump instead
Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley took to social media to excoriate former President Donald Trump just one day after a historic loss during the first-in-the-West Nevada primary.
Haley was the only major candidate in Tuesday’s Republican primary but lost the election to the “none of these candidates” option. It marked the first time a Democratic or Republican presidential candidate lost to “none of these candidates” since Nevada introduced the option in 1975.
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As of Wednesday morning, “none of these candidates” had 63.2% of the vote, while Haley had 30.5% with 88% of the vote counted. Trump opted to run in the state GOP-run caucuses on Thursday, in which he is guaranteed to win the 26 delegates up for grabs.
In her first post on X since losing, Haley did not mention the loss. Instead, she chose to criticize Trump’s “chaos,” a frequent campaign quip she has referenced while running for president.
“Republicans keep doing the same thing and getting the same result: chaos,” Haley wrote Wednesday morning on X. “That’s the definition of insanity.”
The former two-term South Carolina governor then blamed the GOP for a series of embarrassments on Tuesday, including reports that Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel will step down from her position, the collapse of a Senate border deal, and the failure of the House GOP to vote to impeach Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas.
Haley also knocked Trump after a federal appeals court ruled he is not immune from prosecution over allegations he attempted to overturn the 2020 presidential election.
“A vote for Trump is a vote for more chaos,” Haley added.
Republicans keep doing the same thing and getting the same result: chaos. That’s the definition of insanity.
This week:
RNC imploded
GOP House can’t pass ANYTHING
Trump lost another court case & threw another temper tantrum
A vote for Trump is a vote for more chaos.
— Nikki Haley (@NikkiHaley) February 7, 2024 Haley’s campaign put out a terse statement early Wednesday after losing the Nevada primary that largely focused on Trump.
“Even Donald Trump knows that when you play penny slots the house wins,” spokeswoman Olivia Perez-Cubas said. “We didn’t bother to play a game rigged for Trump. We’re full steam ahead in South Carolina and beyond.”
Haley skipped campaigning in the Silver State to do so in South Carolina, where she trails Trump in polls by double digits, ahead of its Feb. 24 primary.
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Her campaign followed up later Wednesday with the announcement of its Massachusetts leadership team in preparation for Super Tuesday on March 5.
Again, the campaign did not acknowledge the Nevada loss, which comes on the heels of Haley losing both the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary to Trump last month.
Julia Johnson contributed to this story.
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