Nikki Haley commits to staying in 2024 Republican race through Super Tuesday
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Nikki Haley vowed to stay in the Republican presidential primary race at least through Super Tuesday while chiding a tabled plan by the Republican National Committee that called for the party to coalesce around Donald Trump.
Haley said she expects to perform better in her home state of South Carolina than in the Iowa Republican caucus and last week’s New Hampshire primary.
“I think I need to do better than I did in New Hampshire,” she said on NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday. “So this is a building situation.”
Haley, whom Trump picked as US ambassador to the United Nations when he was president, stopped short of committing to remain in the race through the Republican nominating convention in July.
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“I have every intention of going to Super Tuesday,” she said.
“I take it one state at a time,” she added. “I don’t think too far ahead, but I’m not going anywhere.”