Trump wants to sweep Nevada caucuses after Nikki Haley’s embarrassing loss to ‘nobody’ as senior adviser Kash Patel reveals how she was ‘kicked off’ by the ex-president even though he wasn’t on the ballot

Donald Trump is preparing for a second victory in Nevada as he heads to Las Vegas for the caucuses on Thursday, following his symbolic victory on Tuesday.

Republican voters in the Battle Born State chose “none of these candidates” by a percentage 32.9 percent higher than if they voted for Nikki Haley in the Nevada primary.

Even Donald Trump’s team was shocked by the number of voters in Nevada who were willing to cast their vote for no one over the former U.N. ambassador. Haley, the former president’s last primary competitor.

Kash Patel, a senior adviser to Trump, told DailyMail.com during an interview in Las Vegas on Wednesday that Haley “overstepped” by thinking she couldn’t campaign in Nevada at all and still win the primary on Tuesday.

“Maybe if you had shown up and done your best, you wouldn’t have been defeated by anyone,” Patel said of Haley’s campaign. ‘This is emblematic of the whole. Like: where are you going with that? You, the billion-dollar candidate, didn’t lose to anyone.”

“We convinced 45,000 people to circle ‘none of the above’ – that’s insane,” he praised. ‘That’s better than registering candidate levels.’

Without Trump on the ballot, Haley still managed to walk away in second place with 30.5 percent of the vote compared to the 63.3 percent who were given the “none of these candidates” option.

The state of Nevada decided to hold primaries this year after decades of caucuses, which led to a lot of confusion and dueling in primaries and caucus contests.

Rather than risk losing supporters to this year’s unrest, Patel and other Nevada Republicans launched an effort to educate voters on how to participate in both the primaries on Tuesday, February 6, and the caucuses on Thursday, 8 February.

Patel admitted that this feat was not easy – with many Nevada voters left confused about this process until Election Day.

A Republican voter who spoke to DailyMail.com outside a polling place in Clark County on Tuesday was upset to discover that Trump’s name was not on the ballot when he showed up to cast his vote.

“I don’t know why Trump’s name isn’t on the ballot, it’s confirmed,” said Robert Simonelli, 63, before walking back to the library where he decided not to vote for “none of these candidates.” .’

Haley was alone on the primary ballot Tuesday, while Trump will join the caucus on Thursday. The caucuses, the Nevada GOP has determined, are the only way to earn delegates for the nomination this year.

Nikki Haley did not make a single move in Nevada in the run-up to the primaries there. She did campaign in Los Angeles, California on Wednesday evening (photo)

Patel told DailyMail.com that Haley’s initial excuse for not meeting was so he wouldn’t have to cough up the $55,000 fee to attend – but the story quickly changed when the former South Carolina governor claimed the Nevada election was ‘rigged’ .

“We always knew Nevada was a scam,” Haley told Fox Business’ Charles Payne on Wednesday. ‘Trump rigged it from the very beginning, there are several stories in the press about that.’

She appeared to brag to the Fox Business host that she had not spent “a day or a dollar” in Nevada.

However, Haley did appear at a campaign rally in Los Angeles, California, on Wednesday evening, while making a trip out west – just ahead of the Nevada caucuses on Thursday.

“We weren’t worried about it, that’s why we didn’t talk about it,” Haley told Payne.

Trump is poised to walk away with all 26 of Nevada’s delegates on Thursday evening, leaving Haley even further behind in the South Carolina primary later this month.

Patel said Haley likely kept herself out of the caucuses because she thought a win in the primaries would make positive headlines and distract from Trump’s caucus win just two days later.

“Nikki Haley wanted ‘we won the primaries’ to be in the headlines in Nevada,” Patel surmised. “And they had it printed in the media and ready to go. And two days later, no one would watch the caucus anymore. They’d say, ‘What are you talking about?’

“It is the symbolic victory of the media,” he added.

But Haley didn’t even understand that.