Republican presidential hopeful Nikki Haley told supporters Monday night that she was the ‘last best hope’ to stop a Trump-Biden rematch after coming in third place in the Iowa caucuses.
The former U.N. ambassador said that despite Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis narrowly beating her for second place in Iowa, her trajectory in the next primaries still made her the more formidable GOP candidate to go head-to-head against former President Donald Trump.
Trump walloped all of his presidential rivals in Iowa – beating DeSantis by around 30 points and forcing entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy to bow out.
‘The pundits will analyze the results from every angle, we get that. But when you look at how we’re doing in New Hampshire, in South Carolina and beyond, I can safely say tonight, I will make this Republican primary a two-person race,’ Haley told a crowd gathered at the West Des Moines Marriott.
She more forcefully went after Trump onstage Monday, linking him to President Joe Biden and pointing out how both were around 80-years-old.
Republican presidential hopeful Nikki Haley told supporters Monday night that she was the ‘last best hope’ to stop a Trump-Biden rematch after coming in third place in the Iowa caucuses
‘Trump and Biden both put our country trillions of dollars in debt and our kids will. never forgive them for it,’ she said.
‘Trump and Biden both lack a vision for our country’s future, because both are consumed by the past by investigations, by vendettas by grievances,’ she continued. ‘America deserves better.’
She called it a ‘hard truth.’
And noted how she, too, had voted for Trump twice in the path.
But she also pointed out how ’70 percent of Americans don’t want another Trump-Biden rematch.’
‘Our campaign is the last best hope of stopping the Trump-Biden nightmare,’ she said.