
Nevertheless, as the saying goes, she persisted. Today, Nikki Haley will almost certainly be trounced by Donald Trump in the Michigan primary for the Republican party presidential nomination, where she trails him in opinion polls by more than 50 per cent.
On Saturday, she lost in her home state of South Carolina — where she was governor for six years — following earlier defeats in Iowa, New Hampshire and Nevada (where Trump didn’t even bother to compete and she was beaten by “none of these candidates”).