Donald Trump dissed his remaining primary challenger, Nikki Haley, when he didn’t mention her even once during his victory speech just seconds after South Carolina primary polls closed on Saturday.
The former president didn’t waste his breath in his brief 20-minute remarks at the South Carolina State Fairgrounds after decimating Haley in her home state during Saturday’s primary election.
Instead, he focused his attention on the November general election, telling his voters that he would like them to be held tomorrow.
Trump said November 5, 2024 will be the “most important date in history.”
“Nine months is a long time,” he said of the time left before this year’s presidential election. “I just wish we could do it faster.”
Former President Donald Trump did not once mention his remaining primary challenger, Nikki Haley, during his remarks about the party’s election night victory Saturday in Columbia, South Carolina.
The former UN ambassador. Haley suffered an embarrassing defeat on Saturday when she was declared the loser in her home state just seconds after polls closed in South Carolina at 7:00 p.m.
“You know, in certain countries, you can announce the date of your elections,” he added. ‘If I had the right to do it, I would do it tomorrow. I would say that tomorrow we will have elections.
Trump does not want to lose the momentum he feels he has after his broad victories and multiple accusations that, according to him, are political persecution.
‘South Carolina – thank you very much. Go home, rest. We have a lot of work ahead of us,’ she urged.
Trump took another step toward a general election rematch with Joe Biden by decimating Nikki Haley in her home state in the South Carolina Republican primary.
The results came in just seconds after the polls closed, dealing another blow to Haley.
“This was a little sooner than we expected,” Trump told supporters in Columbia on Saturday.
Haley’s loss on Saturday marks the first time a Republican candidate has lost his home state primary in more than 50 years. The previous one was Richard Nixon, who lost the California primary to Ronald Reagan, who was also from California.
But Haley said during a state of the race speech Tuesday that she was “far” from ending her candidacy despite her disappointing primary performance so far and dismal polls showing her trailing Trump in the polls. national and state elections by wide margins.
The former South Carolina governor said she plans to stay in the 2024 Republican primary until Super Tuesday on March 5, when 15 states and a staggering 874 delegates will be up for grabs on that day alone.
Trump took the stage to declare victory in the South Carolina primary in Columbia on Saturday night.
Trump acknowledged during his remarks that the crowd at his election night party in the South Carolina state capital was “very opinionated,” even toward some of the former president’s honored guests.
At the mention of South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, the crowd booed even though Trump told them he is a good person.
Some voters in South Carolina told DailyMail.com on Saturday that Haley ruined any future career ambitions by entering the 2024 race and insist her career in politics, especially in the Palmetto State, is “over.”
Haley takes her mother Raj Kaur Randhawa to vote on Kiawah Island, where her name appeared on the South Carolina primary ballot on Saturday, February 24.
Voters line up to cast their ballots in the South Carolina Republican presidential primary on John’s Island, South Carolina, on Saturday, February 24.
Trump won 51 percent in Iowa against Haley, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy and a few other longshots. Then in New Hampshire last month, he won 54.3 percent in a race essentially between him and Haley after the rest of the primary candidates dropped out, with most supporting Trump.
The former president then took 99.1 percent of the vote in the Nevada caucus earlier this month, which Haley did not participate in after opting to run in the state’s primary, where she surprisingly lost to the ballot option “none of these candidates.” .’
Trump held a rally in Rock Hill, South Carolina, on Friday, where approximately 6,000 supporters attended to hear his final appeal before the primary.
He also spoke at the Black Conservative Federation Gala in Columbia later on Friday, before heading to National Harbor, Maryland, to deliver CPAC remarks outside Washington, DC on Saturday morning.