Plodding across frigid New Hampshire, Haley offered the state's proudly freethinking voters a tantalising proposal: choose her and save America from the presidential rematch it seems nobody wants.
"Seventy per cent of Americans have said they don't want to see a Donald Trump-Joe Biden rematch," Haley said on Sunday, drawing murmurs of agreement from attendees packed into a school library in Derry.
"Do we really want to have two presidential candidates in their 80s?" Biden, the 81-year-old Democratic president, is coasting to his party's nomination and Trump, the former president, 77, is marching toward the Republican one. But Haley, who celebrated her 52nd birthday on Saturday hopscotching the state, insisted there was a different - viable - path.
Haley, the former "Tea Party governor" of South Carolina who served as Trump's first United Nations ambassador, has staked her presidential aspirations on a strong showing in the first-in-the-nation primary.
"New Hampshire is do-or-die for Nikki Haley," said Mike Dennehy, a veteran Republican strategist who worked on John McCain's winning presidential primary campaigns in the state in 2000 and 2008 and is unaffiliated. "She needs to go all in and speak specifically to independent voters who want change."
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