Presidential candidate Nikki Haley wouldn’t predict an upset over Donald Trump in Tuesday’s voting, where she’s polling 15 points behind the former president.
Presidential candidate Nikki Haley wouldn’t predict an upset over rival Donald Trump in New Hampshire days before the Tuesday primary, bit said she’s hoping to be “stronger” than she was in Iowa.
“In Iowa I wanted to be strong. We did that. We started at 2%, we ended at 20%,” Haley told The Post during a campaign stop Sunday afternoon.
“In New Hampshire, I want to be even stronger than that, and in South Carolina I want to be even stronger than that,” the former UN ambassador added.
“We’ll find out what ‘strong’ and ‘stronger’ is on Election Day, but that’s the goal. That’s always been the goal.”
Haley is averaging 15 points behind Trump in the Granite State, 50.3% to 35.3%, per RealClearPolitics.
The margin is the closest a candidate has gotten to the former president in months, but could be affected by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis dropping out of the race on Sunday shortly after Haley’s remarks.
Haley’s campaign has long maintained that the fight for 2024 has been a “two person” race between her and Trump, even after she got third place in Iowa. Her camp has also stressed that she will succeed with enough “momentum” built up over several of the early states.
But her comments on Sunday seem to lower expectations put forth by her top backer in New Hampshire.
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