- Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley continues her presidential campaign after Tuesday’s defeat in Nevada
- Nevada Republicans chose “none of these candidates” over Haley, a symbolic voter for former President Donald Trump
- Haley has skipped campaigning in Nevada due to the strange dynamics of the primaries and is instead focusing her efforts on Super Tuesday states
Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley is ignoring her embarrassing loss to “none of these candidates” in Tuesday’s Nevada primaries and pushing ahead with her bid for the White House, looking ahead to Super Tuesday.
Skipping the campaign in Nevada, Haley will take her campaign west on Wednesday, headlining her first California rally in Los Angeles.
California is the state with the most delegates where voters will go to the polls on Super Tuesday, March 5, and if Haley keeps former President Donald Trump under 50 percent, she will earn a share of those delegates.
In addition, Haley’s campaign announced members of her leadership team in Massachusetts on Wednesday, highlighting efforts in another Super Tuesday state.
Super Tuesday appears to be Haley’s last chance to halt Trump’s rise to the Republican nomination as a number of states adopt a version of winner-takes-all rules that would make the ex-president’s lead insurmountable.
Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley is campaigning in South Carolina on Monday. She skipped the Nevada campaign because she was ineligible for delegates as a primary participant, but was still embarrassed there when a majority voted for no one above her.
A woman votes during the Nevada primaries on Tuesday. Haley’s campaign has not commented on the former U.N. ambassador’s poor performance in the state, though her campaign manager said beforehand that not an “ounce” of energy was spent there because the process was “rigged” for Trump
Haley’s home state of South Carolina will vote for that on February 24 – with the former governor there behind Trump.
Michigan’s GOP primary will be held three days later on February 27.
And then 15 states and one territory will vote on Super Tuesday.
Currently, Trump has 33 delegates to Haley’s 17, but he is poised to gain another 26 during the Republican caucus in Nevada on Thursday evening, while Haley will earn none.
Due to a rift between the state legislature and the Nevada Republican Party, Republican voters in Nevada were able to cast ballots in two elections this week: Tuesday’s primary and Thursday’s caucus.
The Trump-aligned Republican Party in Nevada is banning Republican candidates from participating in the primaries if they want their names on the ballot — and only the winner of the caucus would be eligible to earn delegates.
Months ago, Haley decided to participate in the primaries — while Trump put his name on the ballot.
When all other candidates dropped out, Haley remained the only viable candidate on Tuesday’s primary ballot. However, Trump voters could cast a symbolic vote for the ex-president by choosing “none of these candidates.”
That option won — 63.2 percent to Haley’s 30.5 percent, with voters telling DailyMail.com on Tuesday that they also planned to attend the Nevada caucus on Thursday evening and then also vote for Trump.
On Monday, Haley’s campaign manager told reporters to take Nevada’s results with a grain of salt.
“We haven’t spent a cent or an ounce of energy on Nevada,” campaign manager Beth Ankney said. “We are not going to pay $55,000 to a Trump entity to participate in a trial rigged for Trump. Nevada is not and never has been our focus.”
The campaign has since stopped short of acknowledging Nevada’s results, with a spokesperson ignoring a request for comment from DailyMail.com.
Ahead of the New Hampshire primary, the Haley campaign kicked DailyMail.com reporters out of a campaign event and barred in-person coverage of future campaign events after DailyMail.com reported on alleged affairs Haley had during her time in the South Carolina State Legislature. .
On Wednesday, Trump’s team enjoyed it.
“It’s been a while since the political world was treated to such a humiliating, embarrassing and utterly overwhelming defeat than Nikki Haley suffered yesterday in Nevada,” Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung said in a statement, calling the loss “brutal.”