Sununu: ‘Polls, schmolls,’ Nikki Haley is ‘surging’

New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu (R) is increasingly confident that Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley can win next month’s South Carolina primary, saying there is a “surge” in candidates for the White House. insisted.

“Nikki can win South Carolina,” Sununu said Monday in an interview on NewsNation’s “The Elizabeth Vargas Report.” “I mean, the fact that she was in the single digits in Iowa…I mean, it was 20 percent in Iowa. Here in New Hampshire, it was like 45 percent, and everyone plummeted out of the race.”

“She’s the one with the headwind on our back. The South Carolina primary is a few weeks away and she’s won there before and knows how to do it,” Sununu continued. Ta. “She can talk about her success on the ground that Trump can’t talk about.”

NewsNation anchor Elizabeth Plan interjected with Sununu, saying the former South Carolina governor is “very well” aligned with President Biden, but maintains a significant lead over the last major Republican. He pointed to recent opinion polls showing that he doesn’t line up well with former President Trump, who continues to do so. challenger.

Haley, a former ambassador to the United Nations, is leading Trump by about 31.3 points in the South Carolina primary, according to The Hill/Decision Desk’s polling index. Trump has a strong lead in national polls and is likely to gain in the Republican primary compared to Haley, who has about 13.9% of the vote, according to The Hill/Decision Desk Headquarters Polling Index. It secured approximately 70.7% of the votes.

Sununu appeared to dismiss those numbers on Monday, saying, “The election really comes down to the last few weeks, and in some cases the last few days, and that’s what some races are like.”

“Turnout in South Carolina is very low…turnout. So they have a lot of conservative voters who have never voted before, Republican voters, who appreciate what Nikki brings to the table.” We have the opportunity to vote on the issue,” Sununu said.

“So there’s a lot of chances to get in, a lot of campaigns to get in, and she just keeps going up and up and up and up. I mean, ‘Polls, schmoll,’ which means no one polls.” “They only care about the end result,” he continued.

Despite early losses in Iowa and New Hampshire, Haley insisted she plans to remain in the race as Trump’s primary challenger at least until Super Tuesday. But Haley also dodged a question Sunday about whether a victory in her home state of South Carolina would be “win or die.”

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