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| Haley requested Secret Service protection after threats increased. dad |
In the wake of Tuesday's bruising defeat in the Republican primary in Nevada, former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley sought to ignore the fact that she had suffered her third straight loss in the presidential race so far. Meanwhile, she said that the focus of her campaign is currently on other, larger states.
She also emphasized that she never saw much benefit in competing seriously against former President Donald Trump in the state of Nevada, which has two different nominating contests.
“We always knew that voting in Nevada was a process marred by fraud,” Haley told Fox on Wednesday.
“Trump arranged the matter from the beginning, and there are many press stories about that.” She added:
“They wanted us to pay $55,000 just to participate in their electoral conference, so we never spent a single dollar there, and we had no worries about that.”
Haley's campaign had previously called the caucuses "rigged," a claim the Nevada Republican Party has repeatedly denied.
She said her current focus is on South Carolina, Michigan, and Super Tuesday, March 5, when several states will vote simultaneously.
In another context, Haley requested Secret Service protection after increasing threats, according to a campaign spokeswoman. The request also comes after hoax attacks,
when people make false reports to law enforcement with the intent of provoking an emergency police response, targeting her home in South Carolina.
The former governor of South Carolina recently said that one of these incidents occurred while she was away, but her elderly parents were at home.
“The last thing you want is to see multiple law enforcement officials with guns pointing at my father,” she said at the time. “It's a terrible situation.”
The former governor also said that she “received threats.” While campaigning in South Carolina on Monday, she told the Wall Street Journal that the campaign encountered “multiple problems” that led to a request for Secret Service protection.
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