DNC chair tells Haley that South Carolina Dems aren’t ‘bailing you out’

Democratic Nationwide Committee (DNC) Chair Jaime Harrison warned GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley forward of the Palmetto State major that South Carolina Democrats gained’t be “bailing” her out.

Whereas talking throughout an occasion Saturday morning in Columbia, S.C., Harrison relayed a message to Haley that she mustn’t count on help from Democrats, the place the marketing campaign is trying to shut the hole between former President Trump and Haley in her dwelling stage.

Harrison additionally slammed the previous South Carolina governor’s document in her dwelling state, keying in on healthcare.  

“We all know Nikki Haley,” Harrison mentioned. “We all know Nikki Haley very effectively. Nikki Haley was a governor of this state who allowed her hometown hospital to shut, the place her mother and father nonetheless stay.”

“Nikki Haley is a governor within the state who blocked 250,000 folks from getting well being care on this nation,” he continued. “Nikki Haley is the governor that signed probably the most some of the restrictive abortion bans within the nation.” 

The DNC head, who known as Haley a “MAGA minion” in October, continued the identical assault in opposition to her, bundling her, once more, into the “Make America Nice Once more” motion led by Trump.

“My message to Nikki from you understand, bless her coronary heart from the very begin, is that we’re not gonna vote for you, since you didn’t do something for us,” he mentioned.

“You didn’t do something for us so we aren’t gonna bail you out. You understand, we received two MAGA apples on this subject that’s left, and each of them are proper,” Harrison added. “And so Democrats in South Carolina bail neither one in all them out.”  

Haley, who’s the one remaining main candidate working in opposition to Trump, has an uphill climb in her dwelling, simply three weeks earlier than the state’s major kicks off.

At the moment, she is trailing by over 30 factors, in response to the most recent The Hill/Determination Desk HQ mixture of polls. Nonetheless, her allies within the state have pointed to some latest polling that reveals her narrowing the lead the previous president has.

With the Trump marketing campaign shifting its focus to the overall election, the place he’ll probably face a rematch with President Biden, Haley’s camp has rolled out a sequence of adverts on Thursday to tout her document when she was the state’s governor. She’s additionally hit each Biden and Trump on age, calling them “grumpy outdated males” in her newest assaults.

In a press release to The Hill, Haley’s spokesperson steered Democrats favor Trump over the previous governor, as a result of they fear she may defeat Biden.

“Nothing would make Democrats happier than Donald Trump being the Republican nominee as a result of they know they’ll’t beat Nikki Haley,” spokesperson AnnMarie Graham-Barnes mentioned within the assertion. “South Carolina remembers every thing she did as governor, and 70 % of Individuals are in search of a substitute for two grumpy outdated males.”