The former South Carolina governor expressed confidence as she stopped into polling places in New Hampshire, saying she had “outworked and outsmarted” the rest of Trump’s opponents.
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Nikki Haley, the former governor of South Carolina, visiting a polling site at Winnacunnet High School in Hampton, N.H., on Tuesday morning.
Nikki Haley, in her final appearances before polls close in New Hampshire Tuesday night, rejected claims that Republican voters had already solidly united behind former President Donald J. Trump, and pledged not to end her 2024 presidential bid no matter how the state’s first-in-the-nation primary turned out.
“I didn’t get here because of luck,” she said at a polling site in Hampton, N.H., while flanked by supporters, including Gov. Chris Sununu, her top surrogate in the state. “I got here because I outworked and outsmarted all the rest of those fellas. So I’m running against Donald Trump, and I’m not going to talk about an obituary.”
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“If Trump beats you by double digits here in New Hampshire, do you think that your campaign has a future?” “You know, when we come in and we start the day, and there were 13, 14 candidates in this race, I didn’t get here because of luck. I got here because I outworked and outsmarted all the rest of those fellas.”
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Asked for her response to Mr. Trump’s remarks at his rally a day earlier, in which he suggested she would likely drop out after New Hampshire, she smiled.
“I don’t do what he tells me to do,” she said. “I’ve never done what he tells me.”
In her closing pitch to voters, Ms. Haley, the former governor of South Carolina and a United Nations ambassador under Mr. Trump, has cast herself as an underdog who has come from behind before and is willing to take on her own party’s political class. Her supporters and allies have projected confidence.
“I’m not worried because I’ve seen this movie before,” Katon Dawson, a former chairman of the South Carolina Republican Party who now serves as an adviser to the Haley campaign in that state, said in an interview.
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