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Former President Donald Trump continues to rack up victories against his sole remaining serious opponent, Nikki Haley and has finally reached a point where he’s no longer focused on his one-time UN ambassador.
Following his victory over Haley in her home state of South Carolina earlier this month, Trump told Fox News that he’s not sure Haley is “even really in the race” at this point, adding he is now hyper-focused on beating President Joe Biden in the fall.
“I was honored that I received the largest vote in the history of the state — I’m with Senator Lindsey Graham right now, and he just told me we received the largest vote by double — we beat the last record,” Trump told the network. “So that’s a great compliment to all of the people and to making America great again.”
Asked if he thought Haley should now drop out of the race, Trump said he’s “really not thinking about that… I’m not thinking about it.”
“I’m really thinking about we have to beat Joe Biden,” told the outlet. “I don’t know if she’s in the race at all because, you know, I have set records in every single state. I’m not sure that she’s really in the race.”
Trump secured another 44 delegates ahead of the RNC’s nominating convention this summer, CNN reported.
Before Saturday’s primary, Trump dominated other primaries and caucuses in Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
“I’m very honored by the elections,” he said. “We’re setting records in every single state.”
Haley also lost the Michigan primary last week but nevertheless vowed to stay in the race despite calls for her to drop out and help the party unify to defeat Biden.
During a Wednesday interview on “Jesse Watters Primetime,” the host and his guest, Vivek Ramaswamy, detailed Trump winning every Republican primary contest so far over his rival Nikki Haley.
“Which party, the Republican or Democratic Party, is more united right now?” Watters asked.
Ramaswamy responded: “Undoubtedly, it is the Republican Party. Even beyond that, we have a country that is united even outside the traditional Republican Party. America first includes all Americans. I have traveled to inner cities. I was just in Michigan. From autoworkers to the inner city, people in rural communities to suburban, if you ever think Americans have their heads stuck in the sand.”
“If they don’t notice you have a southern border right now, that we have a way to wave of crime, that interest rates have gone up but wages remain flat. I think a lot of this left-wing media has themselves in a delusion to think that black Americans or Americans of any skin color haven’t noticed what has actually happened in their life right now,” he added.
“So I think we could be on track, Jesse, for a unifying landslide Reagan 1980, 1984-style election. If we make this as a party about what we actually stand for, restore the rule of law, seal the southern border, Mr. Merritt to economic growth in this country, success is unifying, and I think that is our message, and I think we are going to be very successful, and the Democrats are going to be licking their wounds if we stay on message,” Ramaswamy continued.
Surveys have shown Trump moving past Biden for months now.
An Emerson College poll taken earlier this month also found that Trump beats Vice President Kamala Harris and Gavin Newsom, the governor of California. In addition, he blows out Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.
The poll found that 45 percent of the 1,225 registered voter respondents surveyed support Trump in a race against Biden, who draws 44 percent support.
