GOP mega-donor Andy Sabin told Republican nominee and Trump’s lone rival Nikki Haley to “walk away” from the 2024 presidential race on Wednesday.
The billionaire told the former South Carolina governor to take her cue from Kenny Rogers.
“You have to know when to hold them. You got to know when to fold them. You got to know when to walk away. It’s time for Nikki Haley to walk away,” says the metal magnate.
Sabin told Fox Business host Neil Cavuto that he donated more than $1.7 million to the GOP campaign trail.
He added that Haley won’t gain anything in continuing her campaign in South Carolina.
Sabin also noted that Haley was trailing Trump in the survey by 31 points.
“There’s absolutely no upside to her going to South Carolina. And there’s a tremendous downside,” he said.
The billionaire described Haley’s insistence to stay in the race despite her devastating record in Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary as “political suicide.”
“If you can’t win your own state, there’s no reason to go on,” Sabin quipped.
The metal magnate also hit Haley’s consultant and staffers for blatantly lying to her.
“They don’t want to lose their paychecks.”
“So they tell Nikki Haley what she wants to hear, not what she should hear, and what she should hear [is] there’s no viable path to continue. You can only harm yourself by going to South Carolina and losing by 30-plus points in your home state. It’s political suicide.”
“Why not save your money, instead of giving it to these consultants and her staff, for a rainy day?” Sabin remarked.
During an interview with CNBC, the billionaire magnate said that “[Trump] “may be the only choice I have”, recanting his previous statement blasting the former president and “ wouldn’t give him a f***ing nickel.“
Fox News Host Cavuto asked Sabin about his criticisms of Trump, to which the GOP funder said, “As long as he’s the Republican nominee, I’m going to support him. There is no reason — I hope Donald is listening — where he couldn’t be the best president we ever had.”
“He’s got great policies. Okay. But, for example, he doesn’t need to attack Haley. He won. What does he gain by attacking these people?”
According to the latest survey by the American Promise and the Tyson Group, Trump now has 58 percent support from South Carolina voters while Haley only had 31 percent.
Moreover, two-thirds, or 68 percent of the respondents remarked they held favorable views of Trump.
Meanwhile, the former UN ambassador justified her miserable polls with a remark on Sunday that she doesn’t need to win South Carolina, and insisted that she will remain in the contest, “as long as I keep growing per state, I am in this race.”
