Nikki Haley's campaign gears up as Trump world vows to go after her 'reputation and image' in New Hampshire
Haley's campaign says it is ready to take on Trump directly, depicting his campaign as one of “drama and chaos and vindictiveness and dysfunction.”
A new dynamic is unfolding in the presidential primaries with both Donald Trump's and Nikki Haley's campaigns shifting to one-on-one combat as the race charges to the next phase with an expected competitive contest in New Hampshire.
It could get ugly fast.
Team Trump is readying to unleash a level of vitriol against Haley, his former U.N. ambassador, that she hasn’t yet seen, according to several of the former president's advisers and allies.
“Nikki should get out while people still talk about her for 2028, or she’ll end up like all the 2016s that nobody thinks of as future presidents anymore,” a Trump campaign adviser said. “A protracted ground war will cost us our money, but it will cost Nikki her reputation and image.”
But Haley, too, is moving more aggressively against Trump, already characterizing the race as a choice between an aged politician drowning in old grievances and a new face who promises generational change and stability. Though she came in third in Iowa on Monday, she declared the contest a two-person race between herself and Trump.
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