As South Carolina voters head to the polls to cast their primary ballot, Democrats are reminding former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley they are not on her side. 

Haley won 60% of self-described independent voters, outpacing Trump in that voting group, but the former president ultimately won the New Hampshire primary with 54% of the vote compared to her 45%. New Hampshire is an open primary, which means independents can legally participate in either the Republican or Democratic primaries; however, Democrats couldn’t vote in the GOP primary. 

In Haley’s home state of South Carolina, Democrats can vote in the Republican presidential primary, but not both. The Democratic presidential nomination process started Saturday in The Palmetto State, and blue party officials have a message for Haley, Trump’s only rival: “South Carolina Democrats are not going to vote for you.” 

Speaking in Columbia, Democratic National Committee chairman Jaime Harrison told reporters, “Nikki, just understand that South Carolina Democrats are not going to vote for you. I want you to get that message loud and clear this morning.”

In calling on Democrats to vote for President Joe Biden, who won the New Hampshire primary through write-in ballots, Harrison said Haley has done nothing for the Democratic Party.

“You didn’t do anything for us. So, we’re not bailing you out. We’ve got two MAGA apples in this field that’s left, and both of them are rotten. And so, Democrats in South Carolina aren’t bailing either one of them out,” Harrison added. 

In response to Harrison’s comments, Haley’s spokeswoman, AnnMarie Graham-Barnes, said in a statement to the Washington Examiner, “Nothing would make Democrats happier than Donald Trump being the Republican nominee because they know they can’t beat Nikki Haley. South Carolina remembers everything she did as governor, and 70 percent of Americans are looking for an alternative to two grumpy old men.”

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Continuing his rebuke of the idea that Democratic voters would show support for Haley, Harrison took to X to say Haley “made it harder for Black voters to vote” while serving as the 116th governor of South Carolina. 

“I am a constituent of SC. Nikki Haley was my Governor.  She denied hundreds of thousands of people healthcare… signed one of the most restrictive abortion bans in the country…. Made it harder for Black voters to vote. I can go on.  So you don’t get to dictate to Black voters in SC who suffered under both Trump and Haley and tell us you must choose one of these rotten MAGA apples,” Harrison said, quoting Bill Kristol of Defending Democracy Together, who encouraged voters to vote for Haley in an effort to stop Trump from appearing on November’s ballot.