- After the New Hampshire primary, presidential candidate Nikki Haley promised to stay in the race.
- A handful of state primaries remain until Super Tuesday, when 15 states hold theirs simultaneously.
- In a recent interview, Haley wouldn’t commit to running her campaign after the day of primaries.
Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley in a recent interview wouldn’t commit to keeping her campaign running post-Super Tuesday.
“Meet the Press” host Kristen Welker on Sunday pressed Haley about whether she’d remain in the race after the 15 state primaries on Super Tuesday in early March.
“As long as I keep growing per state, I am in this race,” the former UN Ambassador relied. “I have every intention of going to Super Tuesday. Through Super Tuesday, we’re going to keep on going and see where this gets us. That’s what we know we’re going to do right now. I take it one state at a time. I don’t think too far ahead.”
Haley’s comments came less than a week after she finished behind former President Donald Trump in New Hampshire’s primary race by around 11 percentage points. She vowed to stay in the race that night.
“This race is far from over,” Haley said. “There are dozens of states left to go.”
Next up on the GOP’s state primary calendar is Nevada, though Trump appears set to win all of the state’s delegates after Haley’s campaign chose not to run in the state-held primary rather than the party-run caucus.
After Nevada will be South Carolina, the state where Haley was born, raised, went to college, and served as governor.
But even with her local ties, it may not be enough to overtake the embattled former president.
According to a poll from Emerson College in early January, Haley trailed Trump by 29 percentage points, though the survey was taken before candidates Gov. Ron DeSantis, Vivek Ramaswamy, and former Gov. Chris Christie dropped out of the race.
After South Carolina, Haley will have only four states left to amass delegates against Trump before Super Tuesday on March 5.
If Haley can’t make a sizable dent against Trump on Super Tuesday, her likeliest pathway to the Oval Office likely won’t be the traditional one. Instead, she’d need to stay in the race in the hope she can obtain the nomination if Trump drops out amidst his many ongoing legal battles.
