Haley is trying to avoid a WWE smackdown with Trump. He's not giving her a way out.

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

49% : She has incorporated digs at Trump over his age, temper and mental acuity since losing to him in New Hampshire.
45% : "Now, we have seen with Donald Trump the blueprint that many candidates, who have followed ever since in other offices - they use racism and xenophobia and sexism as political tools to win votes.
45% : "If I make it about me that's no different than what Donald Trump does every single day, because all he does is make everything about himself," she told USA TODAY.
41% : But even the Haley backer admitted she could hit Trump harder.
39% : Some of Haley's opponents in that fight have endorsed Trump, her friend Scarlett Wilson said Tuesday.
37% : It only took her becoming viable following contests in Iowa and New Hampshire for Trump to bring back a tried and tested campaign approach when running against women and minorities: insult them.
33% : Yet, even there, surrounded by family friends and some of her most staunch supporters, she refused to call out Trump for suggesting she was not born in the U.S. and amplifying a false claim that she can't be president because her parents were immigrants.
33% : The former president's allies and supporters quickly quashed that notion and Trump himself ruled out having Haley on his ticket.
24% : In a gaggle with reporters after an Elgin event on Monday, an incredulous Haley noted that moments before, she had made her most forceful comments against Trump to date.
24% : Trump spent years demanding Obama produce his birth certificate.
22% : She hit Trump as an agent of chaos, a pal of Russian strongman Vladimir Putin and a draft dodger with a penchant for criticizing veterans without getting into the underlying issues that he is using to try to undermine her standing.
20% : In the posts, he called Trump a "complete idiot" and labeled the MAGA movement as a "cult." "You never speak bad about other people, but you do defend yourself," he wrote in one of the messages.
18% : And I'm going to take out this person once and for all on her home turf," Gillespie said of Trump's approach Nevertheless, Haley has adopted a more aggressive posture towards Trump now that the competition is down to two people.
16% : Haley has limited her attacks on Trump to poking him, keeping the respect of voters who want a return to civility in politics - even as polling indicates it's not getting the job done.
9% : Gillespie said that Trump is attacking Haley precisely because of her race and gender.
7% : He called Scott, a former presidential contender who endorsed Trump last month, "Judas" for betraying Haley.
7% : He also compared another one of her former competitors who endorsed Trump, entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, to Pennywise, the clown from the Stephen King thriller, "It." Trump is certainly not pulling his punches.

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