1 of 1 Nikki Haley after losing the Republican presidential primary in South Carolina, in Charleston Photo: Portal/Evelyn Hockstein Nikki Haley after losing the Republican presidential primary in South Carolina, in Charleston Photo: Portal/Evelyn Hockstein
Nikki Haley's campaign said it was “honored” by the support of Americans during Super Tuesday for the primaries of the US elections this Tuesday (5). Despite the optimism in the statement, the campaign is under pressure behind the scenes to back off.
As of this report's last update, Haley had beaten Donald Trump in just one of the 15 states holding Republican primaries this Tuesday.
Following the Super Tuesday results, the candidate made no public appearances. Instead, campaign spokeswoman Olivia PerezCubas read a statement.
“Today we saw that there is still a large bloc of Republican voters in the states who express deep concerns about Donald Trump. This is not the unity our party needs to be successful,” said spokeswoman Olivia PerezCubas.
Former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley is the only candidate remaining in the race against Trump for the Republican Party's nomination for the White House.
However, Haley trails Trump in total Republican delegate points and has suffered a series of defeats in state primaries.
With few delegates won and poor performances against Trump, the former governor will likely face increased pressure to suspend her own campaign in the coming days, according to the Associated Press.
Additionally, Donald Trump is close to getting all 1,215 delegates needed to be officially nominated as the Republican candidate for the White House, making a lastminute turnaround difficult.
Elections in the USA: What is Super Tuesday and why is it important?
The vote on Super Tuesday has already been decisive, for example for former President Barack Obama in his dispute with Hillary Clinton in 2008 and for Donald Trump in the primary campaign in 2016. Both won the elections in those years. It was also fierce among Republicans in 2012 and among Democrats in 2020.
This was predicted by political analyst Sam Logan, founder of the Washington consulting firm Southern Pulse g1 that this year's Super Tuesday would be the least important in the last two decades.