Defeat to Donald Trump looms over Nikki Haley. So why stay in the race? - BBC News

The Republican presidential candidate has vowed not to quit despite a likely loss in her home state of South Carolina.

3 hours agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingRelated TopicsUS election 2024Image source, Getty ImagesBy Holly Honderichin Columbia, South CarolinaRepublican presidential candidate Nikki Haley is staring down another resounding loss to Donald Trump, this time in her home state of South Carolina. But Ms Haley has vowed not to quit, raising speculation about the ambitions of her long shot campaign.

Three days before the state primary, a crowd of Republican voters in Augusta, South Carolina, packed shoulder-to-shoulder in to the sunny top floor of a municipal building for a Nikki Haley campaign event.

As the state's former governor, Ms Haley gave the gathering an assured and newly combative stump speech. She made frequent and pointed jabs at her rival and the Republican frontrunner, former President Donald Trump - a tactic she had long avoided.

"He was literally unhinged," she said at one point, remarking on his victory speech after the New Hampshire primary. "He's obsessed with himself," she added later.

In this room at least, Ms Haley's pitch and criticism of the former president were landing. Her jokes received loud laughs, the applause breaks were long, and at least a dozen voters in attendance told the BBC they were all in on Ms Haley.

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