Trump campaign continues attacks on Haley: 'Aiding and abetting Joe Biden by staying in the race'

Former President Donald Trump's campaign is continuing its attacks on Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley by accusing her of helping President Joe Biden's campaign by remaining in the race.

"The real payoff for the Democrats is that AFP, Nikki Haley, and her team are directly aiding and abetting Joe Biden by staying in the race – when even a 10-year-old knows there’s not a path to winning," the Trump campaign said in a memo Monday, using the acronym for Americans for Prosperity, a campaign group supported by billionaire Charles Koch that endorsed Haley last year. 

Trump's campaign also said that in New Hampshire, where he won the Republican primary with 54.3% of the vote to Haley's 43.2%, there was a "record push to turn out behavioral Democrats who had an opportunity to support one of their own, Nikki Haley." 

New Hampshire allows independent voters and registered Republicans to vote in the Republican primary. 

The next direct faceoff between the only two remaining Republican candidates is in Haley's home state of South Carolina, where she was governor from 2011 to 2017. However, Trump is more than 30 points ahead of Haley on average in the state, according to a poll from FiveThirtyEight.

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