Haley says she doesn’t feel bound by RNC pledge to support eventual nominee

Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley said she doesn’t feel bound by the Republican National Committee’s (RNC) pledge to support the eventual nominee.

NBC’s Kristen Welker asked Haley in an interview on “Meet the Press” whether she still felt obligated to honor the RNC’s pledge last year to support the party’s candidates. This pledge was one of the requirements that candidates needed to make in order to take the debate stage.

“I’ve always said I have serious concerns about Donald Trump. I have even more concerns about Joe Biden,” Haley responded first.

When asked further whether she felt bound by the pledge, Haley suggested she only took the pledge to get on the debate stage.

“The RNC pledge, which means at the debate point, you have to get to the point where you say, ‘Do you support the candidate?’ And in order to get on that debate stage, you say yes. So it’s not the same RNC,” she replied, but Mr. Welker pressed her on the topic again.

“No, I think I decide what I want to decide. But that’s not what I think about,” she told Welker.

“And while you’re thinking about that, I look at the fact that we have thousands of people in Virginia who are headed to North Carolina and are going to continue to go to Vermont and Maine. And all these states are going to show people that there is a way forward. So I don’t think about the “what ifs.” “I’m thinking, ‘How do we continue the conversation?'” she added.

Haley has yet to win an early primary as President Trump continues to widen his lead in the race. Trump has already won 192 delegates, while Haley is far behind with 24 delegates, according to Decision Desk Headquarters.

Haley also vowed in a recent interview days before Super Tuesday that she would stay in the race “as long as I’m competitive.”