'You think we’re the enemy': Fox News hosts scoff as Haley chides them for trying to 'coronate' Trump
As she made her final case to New Hampshire Republican primary voters on Tuesday morning, former UN ambassador Nikki Haley had a testy exchange with Fox & Friends.
Haley went back and forth with hosts Steve Doocy, Ainsley Earhardt and Brian Kilmeade about the future of her campaign should she lose to former President Donald Trump in tonight's critical first-in-the-nation primary. She also bristled when asked if she would drop out should she fail to deliver a solid performance in the Granite State. The former South Carolina governor then pushed back against the hosts' assertions that she would lose badly in her home state in late February.
"If you don't win today, do you go on to South Carolina?" Earhardt asked. "Because you don't want to go into your home state and lose that state if you stay in the race."
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"You have 56,000 people who voted for Donald Trump [in Iowa] and you're gonna say that's what the country wants? That's not what the country wants," Haley responded, vowing that she wouldn't drop out if she lost in New Hampshire. "I'm gonna fight just as hard in South Carolina as I did before."
After Doocy asked Haley about being down "40 or 50 points" in the Palmetto State, Haley shut him down, insisting she wasn't down by that much and that there needed to be a "current poll" of South Carolina Republican voters (RealClearPolitics' polling average shows Trump ahead in South Carolina by roughly 30 points).
"I'm gonna fight no matter what. I don't care how much y'all want to coronate Donald Trump. At the end of the day, that's not what Americans want," Haley said. "Americans want a choice, and we're going to give them that choice."
"I'm really wondering why you think we're the enemy," Kilmeade shot back.
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"Because I've looked at the media," Haley said, chiding the "political class" for "coalescing and saying 'everyone needs to get out.'"
"That's not democracy. That's not who we are," Haley said.
Watch the video of the full exchange below, or by clicking this link.
