Former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley suffered utter humiliation as “None of These Candidates” won in the Nevada primary on Tuesday night. Former president Donald Trump was not included in the ballot.
Haley competed against Mike Pence and Tim Scott, who have longed dropped out of the race. However, voters were given an option to choose “None of these Candidates.”
Trump’s lone rival ended the early voting in Nevada with a sorry state. Furthermore, this reflected the Nevada GOP’s stance that they wanted anyone but Haley based on their landslide vote.
Republican leading nominee Trump trolls Haley on Truth Social with a post, “A bad night for Nikki Haley. Losing by almost 30 points in Nevada to “None of these Candidates.” Watch, she’ll soon claim victory!”
However, Haley’s campaign team claims “Nevada is not and has never been our focus” and shrugged off the state’s primary results.
Haley hasn’t been in Nevada since late October.
Trump’s campaign adviser, Chris LaCivita, dubbed Haley’s campaign as “Nikki Haley Delusional Tour” and warned, “More embarrassment coming in South Carolina.”
For Nevada, Trump’s name will appear on the ballot in the presidential caucus scheduled on Thursday.
The two confusing nomination process started in 2021 when the Democrats controlled the state and approved legislation replacing the long-standing caucuses with a primary election.
Republicans in Nevada opposed the move but the court dismissed their case. However, it allowed the Republicans to conduct their caucuses.
The state GOP ruled that any candidate who registered their names on the state primaries would be ineligible to participate in the caucuses.
Republican presidential nominees refused to participate in the caucus as they believed it favors Trump.
Haley earlier criticized the caucus as “rigged.” However, her loss against the “none of the above” option suggests that she has worse problems than the “rigged” election process.
Nevada GOP Chair Michael McDonald and its national committee members endorse Trump.
For the Nevada GOPers, they were allowed to participate in both elections.
The scheduled contests open the campaign activities in Nevada, one of the key states for the general election in November.
Trump has been actively calling his Nevada supporters to attend the caucuses and cast their votes.
“Your primary vote doesn’t mean anything. It’s your caucus vote,” Trump said at a rally in Las Vegas.
“So in your state, you have both the primary and a caucus. Don’t worry about the primary; just do the caucus thing.”
