Chris Sununu Says Nikki Haley Can Win In South Carolina
New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu (R-N.H.) on Monday expressed confidence that former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley can win the South Carolina Republican major contest subsequent month regardless of polling exhibiting Donald Trump having a gentle lead within the state.
Sununu cited the truth that Haley has been elected governor twice within the Palmetto State as proof that she has the power to sway voters her means.
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“She’s won there before,” Sununu informed NewsNation’s “Elizabeth Vargas Reports.” “She knows how to do it. She can talk about successes there that Trump can’t talk about so she has all the possibility to make it happen.”
However, polls present Trump presently leads Haley by over 31% of the vote in South Carolina, in accordance with a mean of polls compiled by FiveThirtyEight.
Sununu, although, dismissed the numbers as irrelevant.
“Polls, schmolls,” he stated. “Nobody cares about the polls. They just care about the final result.”
The governor defined that Haley may gain advantage by encouraging conservative voters, who normally keep residence, to vote for her on Feb. 24, given the low turnout there.
“There’s a lot of opportunity there, a lot of campaigning to go and, again, she’s only kept surging and surging,” Sununu stated.
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Haley carried out higher than anticipated in New Hampshire however nonetheless misplaced to Trump by about 11 proportion factors. She informed NBC’s “Meet the Press” Sunday she is targeted on closing the hole with the previous president in her residence state even when she doesn’t handle to defeat him.
“What I do think I need to do is I need to show that I’m building momentum,” Haley stated. “I need to show that I’m stronger in South Carolina than New Hampshire. Does that have to be a win? I don’t think that necessarily has to be a win. But it certainly has to be better than what I did in New Hampshire, and it certainly has to be close.”
