The 77-year-old then went onto address a key aim – crossings at America’s southern border which he says is in “the worst state it has ever been.”
He said: “There’s something going on in the country. Some really great things are going on.
“You look outside and you see all of the horror. You see millions and millions of people coming across the border illegally.
“We don’t know where they come from. They come from jails, they come from all sorts of places that we don’t want to know. They come from mental institutions and insane asylums and we don’t want that in our country.
“No country could sustain what’s happening to the United States of America – no country.”
Pressure continues to mount on Haley, Trump’s former representative to the UN who also served as South Carolina governor from 2011 to 2017.
A 2020 general rematch between Trump and President Joe Biden is becoming increasingly inevitable.
Haley has vowed to stay in the race through at least the batch of primaries on March 5, known as Super Tuesday, but was unable to dent Trump’s momentum in her home state despite holding far more campaign events and arguing that the indictments against Trump will hamstring him against Biden.
The AP based its race call on an analysis of AP VoteCast, a comprehensive survey of Republican South Carolina primary voters. The survey confirms the findings of pre-Election Day polls showing Trump far outpacing Haley statewide.
