Former President Donald Trump on Saturday insisted that Nikki Haley, his last remaining competition for the GOP presidential nomination, can't defeat him because she won't be able to defeat President Joe Biden for the White House.
"She doesn't have Republican support," Trump said in his caucus-boosting rally in Las Vegas, which aired live on Newsmax and simulcast on the Newsmax2 online streaming platform. "You know what else she doesn't have? She doesn't have MAGA."
But Democrats want Haley to win, Trump said, "because they know she's the easiest person to beat. She doesn't have Republican support. Nikki Haley supports the 23% national sales tax, and she wants to gut Medicare and Social Security, raising the retirement age of Social Security, too."
Nevada is considered a critical battleground state, but Trump won't be facing Haley in the nominating caucuses on Feb. 8. Instead, she is running in the Feb. 6 primary. But the caucuses are necessary because the winner of them, and not the primary, will earn the state's convention delegates.
Trump on Saturday also slammed Haley, a former South Carolina governor who served as U.N. ambassador under him, as being "almost a radical-left Democrat."
"She made a corrupt deal to sell out to the radical left, taking the Democrat money from donors and recruiting all the votes in the primaries that you just saw," said Trump, referring to the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary. "She got killed in both of them. ... She got absolutely beaten badly. And she tried to cancel out Republicans, and she sort of did. She only got 25% of the Republican vote in Iowa, when she came in a distant third, a distant third."
Trump added that after Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis dropped out of the race and backed him, he's "retired" his nickname of "Ron DeSanctimonious" for him.
Haley, said Trump, came in a "distant third" to DeSantis in Iowa and still lost in New Hampshire, where "we won by a lot, by a landslide."
"She didn't come to Nevada because they looked at a poll, and I was at 97%," said Trump. "If you want to save America, then get everyone you know out to vote in the Nevada caucuses. ... Don't go on Tuesday, Feb. 6. That's two days earlier. Don't do it. Don't use a mail-in ballot. Don't do anything. It's a meaningless event."
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Sandy Fitzgerald has more than three decades in journalism and serves as a general assignment writer for Newsmax covering news, media, and politics.
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