I'm Ahmed Mohideen in for Alex Wagner who also has the night off.

Last night the campaign for Nicki Haley sent out this cryptic message to reporters.

Haley said to deliver state of the race speech in her home state of South Carolina.

And right now polls show Haley trailing Donald Trump in her home state by almost 30 points.

And so as you can imagine, rumors spread that maybe, just maybe,

Nicky Haley was preparing to drop out of the presidential race.

And then today, Haley got out there and said this.

South Carolina will vote on Saturday.

But on Sunday, I'll still be running for president.

I'm not going anywhere.

People have a right to have their voices heard,

and they deserve a real choice, not a Soviet-style election where there's only one candidate, and

he gets 99% of the vote.

We don't annoy the kings in this country.

We have elections. And Donald Donald Trump of all people should know we

don't rig elections. That is Haley's new message, I guess.

I mean, it doesn't matter that she is on track

to lose her home state by a bigger margin

than any presidential candidate in modern history.

She is staying in this race, and to put her money where her mouth is

the Haley campaign is now spending more than a half a million dollars running this

new ad in the state of Michigan where Republicans will choose their candidate next week.

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