Nikki Haley is Donald Trump’s sole remaining challenger (File/Reuters)

Washington:

Donald Trump needs to “bully” his method to the Republican presidential nomination, his sole remaining challenger Nikki Haley mentioned Sunday, as she accused the get together management of in search of to declare him the nominee prematurely.

Haley misplaced the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire main however has vowed to remain within the contest, regardless of Trump’s insistence — backed by some prime Republican Celebration leaders — that the race is over.

“He cannot bully his approach via the nomination,” Haley mentioned on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”

Haley famous that the nominating course of was nonetheless in its earliest phases — Republicans have voted solely in Iowa and New Hampshire to date — and instructed that Trump had pressured the Republican Nationwide Committee (RNC) to again him a lot too quickly.

“You’ll be able to’t do this based mostly on simply two states,” she mentioned.

The previous South Carolina governor took explicit purpose on the RNC for throwing the nationwide get together’s help — and assets — behind Trump quickly after the New Hampshire vote.

The voters’ will was “very clear,” RNC chair Ronna McDaniel informed Fox Information on Tuesday. “We have to unite round our eventual nominee, which goes to be Donald Trump.”

However with 48 states but to vote, Haley informed NBC, “I do not suppose that is the place of the RNC… I believe that Trump overstepped when he pushed them to do it.”

Haley instructed that she anticipated to remain within the race no less than till so-called Tremendous Tuesday on March 5, when voters in 16 states and US territories forged ballots in what is usually a decisive train.

The following Republican main is in Haley’s residence state of South Carolina, on February 24. However most Republican legislators there have thrown their weight behind Trump, and polls counsel he might defeat the previous governor by an amazing margin.

Haley intimated on NBC that even a loss there wouldn’t essentially knock her out of the race, saying she merely wanted to do higher than she had in New Hampshire, the place she misplaced to Trump by 11 factors.

“We’ll carry on going and see the place this will get us,” she mentioned. “I take it one state at a time.”

Haley additionally brushed apart recommendations she may be staying within the race in hopes that Trump’s many authorized issues, or maybe his well being, would possibly go away a gap for a challenger.

“I’ve by no means stayed on this race due to courtroom instances,” she mentioned.

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