Here we go again.
That’s the theme of Nikki Haley’s campaign pushing this Groundhog Day — disparaging former President Donald Trump and President Biden as “a rematch that nobody wants.”
Haley’s team cut a spot showing actor Bill Murray smashing his alarm clock out of frustration in the iconic 1993 comedy “Groundhog Day,” comparing it to Americans.
“Americans wake up on Groundhog Day feeling like Bill Murray’s Phil Connors in the iconic film of the same name,” the campaign said.
“Like Connors having to relive Groundhog Day over and over again, Americans want to smash their alarm clocks and soak their toasters in the bathtub thinking about the Trump-Biden rematch and all the chaos and pettiness it will bring.”
Haley’s national spokeswoman Olivia Perez-Cubas told The Post that “Nikki Haley offers a better option. She will be a strong president focused on solving America’s problems and a leader we can be proud of.”
Some 67% of Americans say they are “tired of seeing the same candidates in presidential elections and want someone new,” according to a recent Reuters/Ipsos poll.
In the same poll, Trump trailed Biden 40% to 34%.
Trump is the frontrunner to be the GOP standard bearer for the Nov. 5 election.
The 77-year-old former president easily defeated Haley in Iowa and New Hampshire by double digits.
Bill Murray’s character, Phil Connors, a weatherman in Pennsylvania, is caught in a time loop in the classic film.
Trump has secured 32 delegates to Haley’s 17 delegates. Polls show him with a yawning lead nationally and in Haley’s lightly polled home state of South Carolina.
Haley has been storming the Palmetto State, where she served as governor from 2011 to 2017, ahead of the Feb. 24 contest. He hopes to take the momentum against him there.
In a recent Washington Post/Monmouth University poll, Trump had 58% support in South Carolina, compared to Haley’s 32%.
The 52-year-old insisted that the race was “just beginning” and emphasized that he was the last remaining primary challenger to Trump.
Nikki Haley served as Donald Trump’s US ambassador to the UN from 2017 to 2018. AP
The Trump campaign dismissed Haley’s views on the 45th president.
“Nikki Haley is a sore loser who is becoming more and more irrelevant by the day,” Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung told The Post.
“The more people get to know him and his Democratic connections, the more they despise him for his fraud. It’s clear he doesn’t have what it takes or the grit to stand up to Crooked Joe Biden.”
On Thursday, the Trump campaign held an event featuring a large number of South Carolina Republicans who endorsed him over Haley, touting his grip on the party.
Ahead of the showdown in South Carolina, Haley has tempered expectations, arguing that he doesn’t need to win the cage himself, but rather just “shows that we’re competitive.”
Donald Trump and Joe Biden are the runaway candidates in the presidential election. Reuters
Haley’s campaign had $14 million in cash at the end of last year as her Super PAC dwindled, according to Federal Election Commission filings.
The Trump campaign has more than $33 million in cash on hand.
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