Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., told Newsmax on Monday there is no reason the race for the Republican presidential nomination should continue, and encouraged former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley to drop out so the party can start focusing voters' attention to the failures of the Biden administration.
"There's no reason for the race to continue on down to [the] South Carolina [primary]," Mace, who has had a sometimes-rocky relationship with Trump, told "Rob Schmitt Tonight." "I've been talking to voters all across the state of South Carolina and Donald Trump is going to crush it. It's nothing against Nikki Haley. She was a great governor. She has run a great race.
"But the people are rallying around Donald Trump, and the sooner we have a two-man race between Donald Trump and Joe Biden, the sooner we can save our country because people do not want four more years of weakness in the White House. They want four more years of strength, peace, prosperity, and patriotism, and that's what they see in Donald Trump."
Mace endorsed Trump on Monday in a post on X, a day before the New Hampshire primary, which is Haley's best shot of defeating Trump. She trails the former president in the FiveThirtyEight average of polling by 14.2 percentage points, the closest anyone is to Trump in any state. In South Carolina, which holds its GOP primary Feb. 24, Haley trails Trump by 36.1 percentage points in the polling average.
Mace's endorsement is another blow to Haley by lawmakers from her home state. Trump also has been endorsed by Gov. Henry McMaster, Sens. Tim Scott and Lindsey Graham, and Reps. Joe Wilson, William Timmons, and Russell Fry.
Mace said she hopes a Trump victory in New Hampshire will lead to Haley ending her campaign.
"I hope that it does because it's time for us to unite," she said. "We saw [Trump] crush it in Iowa. He's going to kill it in New Hampshire, and he is doing a fantastic job statewide in South Carolina. He's crushing it in South Carolina. The sooner we move on to the general election, the sooner we can save our country. At the end of the day, that's what this is about.
"If you look at the wide-open borders, the skyrocketing inflation, wars around the world because of weakness in the White House, we need someone who's going to be a strong leader, who will see peace through strength because none of this would be happening under Donald Trump. It didn't. By every barometer, by every measurement, life was better under Donald Trump, no matter who you were, and that's what Americans want to get back to."
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