She had a grand ambition to knock off Donald Trump and become the Republican Party’s choice to run in November’s US election.
But Nikki Haley couldn’t do it and it’s almost certain now that Trump will run against Joe Biden for president again even as he faces more than 90 criminal charges.
So why has she held on? Why doesn’t she just give up before almost certain defeat at so-called Super Tuesday next week, the biggest contest in the primary process.
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