{"id":2169885,"date":"2024-02-07T00:32:02","date_gmt":"2024-02-07T05:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nikki-haley-loses-to-none-of-these-candidates-option-in-nevada-primary\/"},"modified":"2024-02-07T08:53:33","modified_gmt":"2024-02-07T13:53:33","slug":"nikki-haley-loses-to-none-of-these-candidates-option-in-nevada-primary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nikki-haley-loses-to-none-of-these-candidates-option-in-nevada-primary\/","title":{"rendered":"Nikki Haley loses to \u2018none of these candidates\u2019 option in Nevada primary"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnikki-haley-loses-to-none-of-these-candidates-option-in-nevada-primary%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2169885&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>LAS VEGAS, Nevada \u2014 Former U.S. Ambassador\u00a0to the United Nations\u00a0Nikki Haley\u00a0lost the Republican\u00a0first-in-the-West Nevada\u00a0primary to the \u201cnone of these candidates\u201d option, an embarrassing display as she seeks to win the GOP presidential over former President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>With about half of the ballots tallied, \u201cnone of these candidates\u201d had 60% of the vote, while Haley had 33% and former Vice President Mike Pence, who dropped out of the race last year, netted 4% of the vote. The Associated Press called the race shortly after midnight EST, two hours after the polls closed.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the loss, Haley did not lose or gain any delegates due to the state GOP awarding the 26 delegates according to results from Thursday caucuses, which will feature Trump as the only big-name candidate on the ballot.<\/p>\n<p>ELECTION 2024: FOLLOW LATEST COVERAGE<\/p>\n<p>In a decision that has stirred up some confusion, the early-nominating state is holding both a primary and caucuses this week.<\/p>\n<p>The state is running the Tuesday primary for both the Republican and Democratic parties. But only the caucuses, run by the state GOP, will be used to award delegates in the Republican presidential primary.<\/p>\n<p>It has led to much confusion among voters. Maura Bivens, a Nevada Republican club member, told the Washington Examiner she voted for Haley in the primary. \u201cI wanted to vote against Trump. And that\u2019s the only way I can choose,\u201d Bivens said. \u201cI really voted for Nikki Haley just to make a statement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But she was also unsure about voting in the caucuses.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hate to say \u2014 can I?\u201d Bivens said. \u201cIt shouldn\u2019t be this hard, especially since I\u2019m seeking it out. And I couldn\u2019t find where to go for my caucus.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another voter Jeff Wald echoed Bivens when he told the Washington Examiner that \u201cPeople have been given misinformation about what\u2019s going on, you know, between the caucus and the primary.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Haley\u2019s campaign forfeited competing in the caucuses and chose to compete in the state\u2019s non-binding primary ballot instead. Campaign manager Betsy Ankney accused the Trump campaign of rigging the results of the caucuses.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have not spent a dime nor an ounce of energy on Nevada.\u00a0We aren\u2019t going to pay $55,000 to a Trump entity to participate in a process that is rigged for Trump. Nevada is not and has never been our focus,\u201d Ankney said in a call with reporters on Monday.\u00a0\u201cI\u2019m truly not sure what the Trump team is up to out there, but they seem pretty spun up about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley speaks during a campaign event at New Realm Brewing Co. Sunday, Feb. 4, 2024, in Charleston, S.C. (AP Photo\/Sean Rayford) Haley is the only big-name candidate, excluding Trump, who is competing in the GOP primary. Former Vice President Mike Pence and Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) had opted to compete in the primary before they ultimately dropped out of the race.<\/p>\n<p>That made the former South Carolina governor\u2019s biggest competition on Tuesday the \u201cnone of these candidates\u201d option on the ballot.<\/p>\n<p>A survey released last week by Providence, a collaborative effort between Revere Solutions and DecipherAi, showed 59.2% of Nevada Republican primary would select \u201cnone of these candidates\u201d compared to 40.8% who would choose Haley in a hypothetical matchup.<\/p>\n<p>Amy Wood, a Republican nurse, said she voted for none of these candidates in the primary and will caucus for Trump on Thursday. \u201cI\u2019m gonna turn in my primary ballot so that it\u2019s still on the record that I voted in the primary,\u201d Wood said. \u201cBut I also want to make a statement that Nevada is important.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nevada Republican Lt. Gov. Stavros S. Anthony is also caucusing for Trump and voting for \u201cnone of these candidates\u201d in the primary.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve endorsed President Trump, and I\u2019m supporting President Trump and he\u2019s not on the primary ballot,\u201d he said. \u201cSo I\u2019m gonna participate by voting none of the above. And then when I go caucus on Thursday, I\u2019ll be caucusing for President Trump.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/p>\n<p>Haley has largely focused on campaigning in her home state of South Carolina, as she seeks to remain a viable candidate against Trump during the Palmetto State\u2019s Feb. 24 primary. The former president, however, is leading her 53.7% to 26.7%, according to a RealClearPolitics poll average of South Carolina.<\/p>\n<p>Trump trounced all his rivals during the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary last month.<\/p>\n<p>But a decisive victory in South Carolina could knock Haley out of the primary race. 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With about half of the ballots tallied, \u201cnone of these candidates\u201d had 60% of the vote, while Haley<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2841,"featured_media":2169886,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/AP24036018243063-1024x683.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Nikki Haley loses to \u2018none of these candidates\u2019 option in Nevada primary","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2169885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/AP24036018243063-1024x683.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Nikki Haley loses to \u2018none of these candidates\u2019 option in Nevada primary","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2169885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2841"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2169885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2169885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2169886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2169885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2169885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2169885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}