The former president is aiming to drive his final remaining nomination opponent from the race and set up a months-long general election re-match with Democratic President Joe Biden
. Once a loyal GOP voter, the 66-year-old retired army officer couldn’t bring himself to support Donald Trump in the past two presidential elections, repelled by his divisive political style.
In the Greenville speech, she vowed to stay in the contest whatever Saturday’s result. She warned that Mr. Trump is getting “more unstable and more unhinged” and assailed the “herd mentality” that has seen her party line up behind him. “I feel no need to kiss the ring,” she said. Others said they never really bothered to form strong opinions on Ms. Haley because they knew where their vote was going no matter who ran. “Why should we have to look for anyone else? Trump is it,” said Jerry Blosser, 64, a retired school-operations worker from Greenville.
The campaign has become increasingly nasty, with Mr. Trump even taking aim at Ms. Haley’s husband, Michael, a veteran of the Afghanistan War currently deployed with the South Carolina National Guard in the Horn of Africa. In speeches, Mr. Trump has suggested that Mr. Haley went overseas to get away from his wife. “What happened to her husband? Where is he? He’s gone. He knew,” he said on one occasion.
The argument has garnered some purchase among moderate voters, including Democrats, who abhor Mr. Trump but are concerned about Mr. Biden’s age. Under South Carolina’s rules, Democratic supporters who didn’t vote in the party’s primary earlier this month can cast ballots in the Republican contest instead.
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