Nikki Haley continues long shot campaign ahead of home state Primary

With two weeks before the South Carolina Republican Primary, Nikki Haley is trying to challenge Donald Trump on her home turf while the former President tries to quash his last major rival’s narrow path to the nomination.

Trump, turning his campaign focus to the Southern state days after an easy victory in Nevada, revved up a massive crowd of supporters at a Saturday afternoon rally in Conway, near Myrtle Beach, by touting his time in office, repeating his false claims that the 2020 election he lost was rigged, maligning a news media he sees as biased against him and lobbing attacks on Haley and President Joe Biden.

In his rally speech, Trump insulted Haley by using his derisive nickname for her, “Birdbrain,” and lavished praise on South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster, who endorsed him early. Trump claimed that he selected Haley to serve as his ambassador to the United Nations in 2017 and represent America on the world stage only because he was motivated to make McMaster — her second-in-command — the Governor of South Carolina.