By Christian Datoc | Colorado Springs Gazette
COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA — Nikki Haley has a message for former President Donald Trump: “I’m not going anywhere.”
Haley, Trump’s ambassador to the United Nations and the sole candidate standing in his way to a third straight Republican presidential nomination, is in the midst of a monthlong, all-or-nothing effort to win the primary in her home state of South Carolina. And she’s finally taking pointed shots at Trump’s age, character, and overall fitness for office along the way.
Haley spent the early months of her campaign focusing attacks on Trump for ballooning the national debt while in office. However, since coming in second place in New Hampshire, she has pulled a page out of President Joe Biden’s own playbook and started specifically blaming the former president for shepherding Republicans’ losses in the 2018, 2020, 2022, and 2023 elections, as well as highlighting his stated quest for “revenge” as the primary motivator behind his 2024 campaign.