(Washington) Donald Trump wants to win the Republican nomination for the presidential election by “intimidating” his party, said Sunday his only rival, Nikki Haley, who accused the leaders of the Republican apparatus of wanting to nominate him too early.
The candidate decided to stay in the race after her defeats in the Iowa caucus and the New Hampshire primary. And this despite the insistence of Donald Trump, supported by party leaders, to want to declare the race over in his favor.
“He cannot impose himself through intimidation for the nomination” as Republican candidate in the November election, against outgoing President Joe Biden, declared Nikki Haley on the show Meet The Press on NBC.
“You cannot do this after only two states”, out of the fifty which must decide, added the former American ambassador to the UN – appointed at the time by Donald Trump – and ex-governor of South Carolina .
Nikki Haley criticized the National Party Committee (RNC), which organizes the Republican primaries, for showing its support too early for the former president of the United States, the overwhelming favorite after his two victories.
Tuesday when the results were announced in New Hampshire, the leader of the party, Ronna McDaniel, assured that the voters’ choice was “very clear”.
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Nikki Haley
“We must rally around who will be our candidate, and that will be Donald Trump,” she added.
“I don’t think that’s the position that the RNC should take… Trump went too far when he pushed them to do this,” assured Nikki Haley.
The candidate suggested that she intended to stay in the race at least until “Super Tuesday” on March 5, a crucial meeting where voters in 16 US states and territories will decide. The next Republican primary will take place on February 24 in South Carolina.
Here again the polls show Nikki Haley largely beaten, but for the former governor, a defeat in her state would not remove her from the race. She said she simply had to do better than in New Hampshire, where she lost by 11 points.
She also refuted wanting to stay in the race in the hope that Donald Trump’s numerous legal troubles, or his state of health, at 77, would open up a space for him.