密歇根州大急流城前联合国大使妮基·黑利一直以两位数的差距输给唐纳德·特朗普哈利周一表示，到目前为止，前总统在有争议的竞选中仅获得了60%的选票，这一事实应被视为一个警告信号。
密歇根州共和党初选前一天，她在旅途中与记者闲聊时说:“从技术上讲，现任共和党人唐纳德·特朗普没有赢得40%的选票。”“所以，你看到的是一些事情正在发生变化，而且这种情况已经发生了一段时间。”
海莉重申了她越来越多地提出的一个论点，包括前一天晚上在密歇根州特洛伊提出的论点:尽管她尚未在共和党总统候选人提名的竞选中赢得一个州，而且她追赶特朗普的道路看起来几乎已经结束，但明显占少数的保守派选民正在发出信号，他们想要特朗普以外的人，他们应该有一个替代者。
“我知道40%不是50%，但我也知道40%不是某个小团体，”她周六在失去家乡南卡罗来纳州后表示。
“在未来10天内，将有另外21个州和地区发言。他们有权进行真正的选择，而不是只有一名候选人的苏联式选举，”海利当时表示。“我有责任给他们这样的选择。我们不能再承受(乔总统)拜登的失败或特朗普缺乏重点的四年。”
周一在密歇根州，黑利指出了共和党在最近几轮关键州竞选中的挣扎，并指责特朗普。
“该党完全分裂了。这不仅仅是密歇根州。我们在全国各地都看到共和党完全分裂了。
“如果你不承认40%的共和党人说我们不想要唐纳德·特朗普，你就不可能赢得大选，”她说。
海利告诉记者:“我会尽我所能向你们展示这个国家的发展方向。”“现在我只需要人们听到它。我需要投票的州采取行动。我需要看到我们能在这艘沉船起飞前阻止它。”
今年到目前为止，特朗普在竞争激烈的提名竞选中获得的最高选票份额是在南卡罗来纳州，为60%。(他在美属维尔京群岛党团会议中获得了74%的选票。)
但在新罕布什尔州和南卡罗来纳州的初选中，海利至少获得了40%的选票。
尽管特朗普誓言要继续竞选，但他在2016年赢得白宫的初选中表现得更加激烈。特朗普越来越关注可能与拜登进行的大选复赛。
“从来没有像这样的精神，”他周六在南卡罗来纳州获胜后说。“我只想说。我从未见过共和党像现在这样团结。”
共和党总统候选人、前联合国大使妮基·黑利在竞选前夕发表讲话.
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周一，当被问及她是否能说出一个她可能在提名竞选中获胜的州时，海莉回避了这个问题，她说:“等着瞧。”
“我们有21个州和地区正准备这样做。我们为什么不等等看会发生什么?我们不必有一个水晶球，说这将发生或那将发生，”她说。
海莉在3月5日超级星期二前几天有几场筹款活动。当被问及这是否表明她计划在那一天之后继续参加竞选时，她吹捧了自己的筹款数字。
“我可以告诉你，我们在南卡罗来纳州选举后的24小时内筹集了100万美元，我们将继续看到资金流入，因为美国人希望发出声音，我们正在给他们这种声音，”她说，“只要美国人希望我发出这种声音，只要我们认为还有选择，我就会继续为他们战斗。”
美国广播公司新闻频道(ABC News)记者问，如果她不是共和党提名人，她的选民是否会选择拜登，或者根本不会在大选中投票。黑利直言不讳地预测。
“我认为，如果我在这场竞选中不是另类，我认为唐纳德·特朗普会输。就这么简单，”她说。
Nikki Haley argues Trump not getting 40% of primary voters is clue he'd lose to Biden
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. --Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haleykeeps losing to Donald Trump by double digitsbut the fact that the former president has only managed to reach 60% of the vote in the contested races so far should be taken as a warning sign, Haley said on Monday.
"Donald Trump as, technically, the Republican incumbent did not win 40% of the vote," she said in a gaggle with reporters while on the trail one day before Michigan's Republican primary. "So, what you are looking at is something is shifting and this has been happening for a while."
Haley was reiterating an argument she has been making more and more, including the previous night in Troy, Michigan: that even though she has yet to win a state in the race for the Republican presidential nomination and her path to catching Trump looks all but gone, a notable minority of conservative voters are signalling that they want someone other than Trump and they deserve an alternative.
"I know 40% is not 50%, but I also know 40% is not some tiny group," she said on Saturday after losing her home state of South Carolina.
"In the next 10 days, another 21 states and territories will speak. They have the right to a real choice, not a Soviet-style election with only one candidate," Haley said then. "And I have a duty to give them that choice. We can't afford four more years of [President Joe] Biden's failures or Trump's lack of focus."
In Michigan on Monday, Haley pointed to the struggles the GOP has had in winning key state races in recent cycles and blamed Trump.
"The party is completely divided. And that's not just Michigan. We are seeing that all over the country that the Republican Party is fully divided," she said.
"You can't win a general election if you don't acknowledge the 40% of Republicans who are saying we don't want Donald Trump," she said.
"I am giving you every red flag I possibly can about the direction that the country is going," Haley told reporters. "Now I just need people to hear it. I need states that are voting to act on it. And I need to see that we can stop this sinking ship before it takes off."
The highest vote share Trump has gotten in a contested nominating race in a state so far this year was in South Carolina, with 60%. (He got 74% in the U.S. Virgin Islands caucuses.)
But in the New Hampshire and South Carolina primaries, Haley got at least 40%.
While she has vowed to stay in the race, Trump -- who emerged from a much more bruising 2016 primary fight to win the White House that year -- has increasingly focused on a likely general election rematch against Biden.
"There's never been a spirit like this," he said on Saturday after winning in South Carolina. "And I just want to say that. I have never seen the Republican Party so unified as it is right now."
Asked on Monday if she could name a state she could win in the nominating race, Haley deflected, saying: "Wait and see."
"We have 21 states and territories that are getting ready to happen. Why don't we wait and see what happens? We don't have to have a crystal ball and say this is going to happen or that's going to happen," she said.
Haley has several fundraisers happening in the days before Super Tuesday on March 5. Asked if that's a sign she's planning to stay in the race beyond that day, she touted her fundraising numbers.
"I can tell you that we raised $1 million in 24 hours after the election in South Carolina, that we are continuing to see the dollars come in because Americans want to voice and we're giving them that voice," she said, "and as long as Americans want me to be that voice, I will continue to fight for them as long as we think that there is an option."
Asked by ABC News if her voters would go to Biden or not vote at all in the general election if she is not the Republican nominee, Haley made a blunt prediction.
"I think that if I'm not an alternative in this race, I think that Donald Trump will lose. It's that simple," she said.
