Nikki Haley Rips the RNC Calling for Her to Drop Out, Accuses Them of Stacking the Deck: They Are ‘Clearly Not’ an Honest Broker

Nikki Haley slammed the RNC for explicitly calling on her to drop out of the presidential race with 48 primaries and caucuses still remaining.

In an interview on Meet the Press Sunday, NBC’s Kristen Welker confronted Haley about this week’s comments from RNC chair Ronna McDaniel in which she said “I don’t see it for Nikki Haley … we need to unite around our eventual nominee, which is going to be Donald Trump.”

“Just going back to the RNC calling for the party to unify around Trump — which happened, by the way, during the New Hampshire primary before the polls had even closed — Do you think the RNC has been an honest broker in this case?” Welker asked.

Haley was unequivocal.

“Clearly not,” she said. “If you’re going to go in and basically tell the American people that you’re going to go and decide who the nominee is after only two states have voted, 48 states out there. This is a democracy. The American people want to have their say in who is going to be their nominee. We need to give them that. You can’t do that based on just two states.”

Trump publicly opposed a potential RNC resolution which would have made him the presumptive nominee. Nonetheless, Haley accused her primary opponent of being behind the push to have him declared the winner with 96 percent of states still to weigh in.

“I don’t think this is the place of the RNC to do it,” Haley told Welker. “I think that Trump overstepped when he pushed them to do it. And I think that’s why he’s had to back down.”

“Do you have actual knowledge and awareness that he pushed the RNC to do that and then pulled back?” Welker said.

“We know exactly the people that pushed it are his people,” Haley said. “And I know that during the debates,he was pushing Ronna McDaniel to stop the debates. He was calling her every other day. He’s been pushing them to pay for his lawsuits and all of these other things.”

Watch above, via NBC.

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