Nikki Haley IGNORES embarrassing loss to ‘none of these candidates’ in Nevada primary and plows ahead with her White House campaign with a California rally and a new leadership team announcement in Massachusetts

  • Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley is pressing on with her presidential campaign after Tuesday’s loss in Nevada
  • Nevada Republicans chose ‘none of these candidates’ over Haley, a symbolic voter for former President Donald Trump
  • Haley skipped campaigning in Nevada due to the odd primary-caucus dynamic and is instead focusing her efforts on Super Tuesday states

Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley is ignoring her embarrassing loss to ‘none of these candidates’ in Tuesday’s Nevada primary and is forging ahead with her White House bid, looking ahead to Super Tuesday.

While she skipped campaigning in Nevada, Haley is taking her campaign out west Wednesday, headlining her first California rally in Los Angeles. 

California is the most delegate-rich state where voters head to the polls on Super Tuesday, March 5, and if Haley keeps former President Donald Trump below 50 percent, she’ll earn a proportion of those delegates.

Additionally, Haley’s campaign announced Wednesday members of her leadership team in Massachusetts, highlighting efforts in another Super Tuesday state. 

Super Tuesday looks to be Haley’s last chance to stop Trump’s march to the Republican nomination, as a number of states have some version of winner-take-all rules, which would make the ex-president’s delegate lead insurmountable.

Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley campaigns in South Carolina on Monday. She skipped campaigning in Nevada, because as a primary participant she was ineligible to earn delegates, but still suffered embarrassment there when a majority voted for no one over her 

A woman is seen voting in Tuesday's Nevada primary. Haley's campaign hasn't responded to the former U.N. ambassador's poor showing in the state, though her campaign manager said beforehand  not an 'ounce' of energy was spent there as the process was 'rigged' for Trump

A woman is seen voting in Tuesday’s Nevada primary. Haley’s campaign hasn’t responded to the former U.N. ambassador’s poor showing in the state, though her campaign manager said beforehand  not an ‘ounce’ of energy was spent there as the process was ‘rigged’ for Trump

Before that Haley’s home state of South Carolina will vote on February 24 – with the former governor trailing Trump there. 

Michigan’s GOP primary will be held three days later on February 27. 

And then 15 states and one territory will vote on Super Tuesday. 

Currently Trump has 33 delegates to Haley’s 17, but he’s on the precipice of picking up another 26 in Thursday evening’s Nevada Republican caucus, while Haley won’t earn any.

Due to a rift between the state legislature and the Nevada Republican Party, Nevada Republican voters could cast ballots in two elections this week – Tuesday’s primary and Thursday’s caucus. 

The Trump-aligned Nevada GOP forbid Republican hopefuls from participating in the primary if they wanted their name on the caucus ballot – and only the caucus winner would be eligible to earn delegates. 

Months ago, Haley decided to participate in the primary – while Trump placed his name on the caucus ballot. 

When all the other candidates dropped out, that left Haley as the only viable candidate on Tuesday’s primary ballot, however Trump voters were able to cast a symbolic vote for the ex-president by choosing ‘none of these candidates.’ 

That option won – 63.2 percent to Haley’s 30.5 percent, with voters telling DailyMail.com Tuesday that they also planned to attend Thursday evening’s Nevada caucus and cast a vote for Trump then too. 

On Monday, Haley’s campaign manager told reporters to take the Nevada results with a grain of salt. 

‘We have not spent a dime nor an ounce of energy on Nevada,’ Campaign Manager Beth Ankney said. ‘We aren’t going to pay $55,000 to a Trump entity to participate in a process that is rigged for Trump. Nevada is not and has never been our focus.’ 

Since then, the campaign hasn’t acknowledged the Nevada results, with a spokesperson ignoring a request for comment from DailyMail.com.

Ahead of the New Hampshire primary, the Haley campaign kicked DailyMail.com reporters out of a campaign event and barred in-person coverage of future campaign events after DailyMail.com reported on alleged affairs Haley had during her time serving in the South Carolina state legislature. 

On Wednesday, Trump’s team was relishing it. 

‘It has been a while since the political world was treated to such a humiliating, embarrassing, and utterly overwhelming defeat than Nikki Haley suffered yesterday in Nevada,’ said Trump’s campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung in a statement, calling the loss ‘brutal.’ 

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