Washington CNN —Former President Donald Trump has started making a fictional claim about the political past of Nikki Haley, his remaining opponent for the Republican presidential nomination.
Haley was a vehement Obama critic and a staunch Romney supporter, endorsing Romney for president against Obama before the first votes were cast in the 2012 Republican primary that Romney ended up winning.
Haley was also an early Romney endorser in the 2008 Republican presidential primary he lost.
But Trump’s social media claim that this single gaffe shows Haley had been an Obama supporter is nonsense.
South Carolina’s Republican primary will be held on February 24.
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