CONCORD, New Hampshire — Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel predicted late Tuesday that Donald Trump will be the 2024 GOP nominee after his victories in the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary.
“We’ve never had a candidate in our party win without winning either Iowa or New Hampshire,” McDaniel told Fox News.
“I look at the math and the path forward, and I don’t see it for Nikki Haley. I think he ran a great campaign,” McDaniel said.
“There is a message coming out of voters, which is very clear: We need to unite around our eventual candidate, which is Donald Trump.”
McDaniel, 50, is a close ally of Trump, 77, and the 45th president lobbied RNC members to retain him last year after the party underperformed in the 2022 midterm elections.
Ronna McDaniel praises the 2024 GOP field but predicts that Donald Trump will be the winner. AP
Live election results from New Hampshire
With 94% of New Hampshire’s estimated votes counted as of 11 a.m. Wednesday, Trump has 54.4% support compared to 43.3% for Haley, the former South Carolina governor.
“We do not do coronations in this country. We did the election,” Haley campaign spokeswoman Olivia Perez-Cubas told The Post in response to McDaniel.
“The political elite may support Donald Trump, but Nikki Haley will continue to fight for the nearly 50% of Republican primary voters and 70% of all Americans who do not want a Biden-Trump rematch.”
Nikki Haley dismissed chatter from the “political class” that counted her out. Amanda Sabga/UPI/Shutterstock
Haley herself was quick to declare Tuesday night she would continue in the race, despite polls across the US showing her as the decided underdog.
“Now, you have all heard the conversation among the political class. They’re falling over themselves saying this race is over,” Haley told supporters in Concord. “I have news for all of them. New Hampshire is the first in the country. It is not the last in the country.”
“This race is far from over. There are dozens more states to go. And next up is my sweet home state of South Carolina!”
Donald Trump has also encouraged fellow Republicans to rally around him. Reuters
Haley’s top successor in New Hampshire, Republican Gov. Chris Sununu, was quick to fire back at McDaniel.
“With all due respect to Ronna McDaniel, to say we’re only going to call her after two states … to say we don’t want to hear from all the other Republicans in the country because it’s getting closer — that’s nonsense,” the governor told “Fox & Friends” Wednesday. .
“You have to let the voters decide, not a bunch of political elites from DC.”
On Tuesday night, McDaniel insisted that Trump’s and Haley’s respective performances “aren’t the RNC talking, it’s not the establishment talking — it’s the voters talking.”
He also pointed out that with Haley not participating in the Feb. 8 Nevada caucus and on track to lose her home state by a wide margin, the end may be coming sooner rather than later.
“What is the most important thing in the future?” McDaniel said. “Every Republican needs to agree that Joe Biden is a threat to our country and if we don’t come together, and if we don’t come together to defeat him, then we’re not going to succeed.”
McDaniel also told Fox that Trump did not consult with him about who could be his running mate despite widespread speculation about the veepstakes.
“Please choose a VP who can be president,” he said.
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