Nikki Haley refuses to quit even as Donald Trump looks set to win South Carolina primary

Indian-origin Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley has refused to quit the get together’s race to the White House even after the South Carolina primary, the place her rival, former president Donald Trump, is main far forward of her.

“I’m not afraid to say the exhausting truths out loud. I really feel no want to kiss the ring. And I’ve no worry of Trump’s retribution. I’m not on the lookout for something from him. My personal political future is of zero concern. So, I hear what the political class says. But I hear from the American individuals, too,” Haley mentioned in a serious political speech in South Carolina, the place the Republican primary is scheduled for February 24.

Haley, 52, additionally contended that most of the similar Republican politicians “who now publicly embrace Trump privately dread him” and had been “too afraid” to converse up, regardless of understanding he had been “a catastrophe” for the get together.

She argued that Americans deserved a alternative and never a “Soviet-style election”, which she described as just one candidate drawing 99 per cent of the vote.

I refuse to quit. South Carolina will vote on Saturday. But on Sunday, I’ll nonetheless be operating for president. I’m not going wherever. I’m campaigning day by day, till the final particular person votes, as a result of I imagine in a greater America and a brighter future for our youngsters. Nothing good in life comes simple. I’m prepared to take the cuts, the bruises, and the name-calling. Because the one means you get to the blessing is by going by the ache.

Nikki Haley, Republican candidate

“Dropping out could be the simple route. I’ve by no means taken the simple route. I’ve been the underdog in each race I’ve ever run. I’ve all the time been David taking up Goliath. And like David, I’m not simply combating somebody larger than me. I’m combating for one thing larger than myself,” she mentioned.

“We don’t anoint kings on this nation,” she mentioned. “We have elections. And Donald Trump, of all individuals, ought to know we don’t rig elections.”

Haley asserted that she was not operating to be the vice-president or to run once more for the presidency sooner or later.

“If I used to be operating for a bogus cause, I might have dropped out a very long time in the past. The remainder of the fellas already did that. They have their very own plans. I don’t decide them. But I’m nonetheless right here. I’m combating for what I do know is correct. And I don’t care what the get together leaders and political elites need. I’ll hold combating till the American individuals shut the door,” she mentioned.

“That day is just not as we speak. And it received’t be Saturday. Not by an extended shot. The presidential primaries have barely begun. Just three states have voted. Three. That’s it. After this weekend, we’ll be at 4. That’s not loads. In the ten days after South Carolina, one other 21 states and territories will vote,” Haley mentioned.

Later, in an e-mail to her supporters, Haley mentioned that she was not dropping out of the race. “Some individuals — maybe the media and political elites — thought I used to be dropping out of the race as we speak. Well, I’m not. Far from it,” she mentioned.

Haley, the previous governor of South Carolina and a United Nations ambassador below Trump, is trailing her former boss in her residence state by double digits.