Nikki Haley Primary Supporter Tells MSNBC He ‘Wouldn’t Vote for Her in a General Election’

A New Hampshire man who voted for Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley in the Republican primary on Tuesday told MSNBC he “wouldn’t vote for her in a general election” against President Joe Biden.

Live from Hanover, New Hampshire on Tuesday, NBC News’ Alex Tabet reported:

I’ve been speaking to voters all day and there’s really been two types of voters generally who I’ve been speaking to. One, registered Democrats who are writing in Joe Biden as a show of solidarity, a symbolic show of solidarity with the president, and the other, which is an undeclared voter who has a more liberal leaning ideology and who seems to be voting for Nikki Haley almost strategically.

Christian Smith, a freshman at Hanover’s Dartmouth College, proceeded to tell Tabet:

I voted for Nikki Haley and it was certainly a strategic vote. I think that the DNC is fairly resolute in their nomination for Joe Biden, and while I wouldn’t vote for her in a general election, particularly on our differences with climate change solution, a woman’s right to bodily autonomy, or incarceration rates, I think a vote for Nikki Haley is– helps diminish Trump’s influence in the RNC and their nomination, and was also a vote towards democracy.

Tabet concluded, “And Christian is emblematic of so many conversations that I’ve had throughout the day.”

While Trump defeated Haley in the New Hampshire primary, the results were much closer than the Iowa caucus earlier this month.

As of reporting, with 60% of the votes counted, Trump received 54.4% of the vote, while Haley received 43.5%.

Watch above via MSNBC.