Nikki Haley pushed back on a reporter Monday who pressed her on her lack of success in the Republican presidential race thus far following her primary loss in her home state of South Carolina Saturday.
“Whether it is here in Michigan or any of the upcoming states that you are campaigning in — today, which state can you tell us that you can definitively win?” a reporter asked Haley before a rally in Grand Rapids.
“We have 21 states and territories that are getting ready to happen. Why don’t we wait and see what happens?” Haley replied. “We don’t have to have a crystal ball and say this is going to happen or that’s going to happen. We don’t live in Russia. We don’t anoint kings. We have elections. Let people vote.”
“But can you name a single state you can win?” the reporter followed up.
“I can name that 70% of Americans don’t want Donald Trump or Joe Biden. That’s a pretty big number. I can name that 40% of Republicans in all our early states don’t want Donald Trump. That’s a point that you need to talk about. Those things matter. 60% of Americans think Donald Trump and Joe Biden are too old. Talk about that,” the former UN ambassador pushed back. “Instead of talking about what we think is going to happen, let’s talk about what the American people have told us.”
