Here we go again.
That’s the theme Nikki Haley’s campaign is sounding this Groundhog Day — bashing former President Donald Trump and President Biden for insisting on a “rematch no one wants.”
Haley’s team cut a brief spot showing actor Bill Murray smashing his alarm clock out of frustration in the iconic 1993 comedy “Groundhog Day,” comparing him to the American people.
“Americans are waking up on Groundhog Day feeling like Bill Murray’s Phil Connors in the iconic movie of the same name,” the campaign said.
“Like Connors who is forced to relive Groundhog Day over and over again, Americans want to smash their alarm clocks and dunk their toasters in the bathtub thinking about a Trump-Biden rematch and all the chaos and pettiness it will bring.”
Haley national spokesperson Olivia Perez-Cubas told The Post that “Nikki Haley offers a better choice. She will be a strong president focused on fixing America’s problems and a leader we can be proud of.”
Around 67% of Americans indicated they were “tired of seeing the same candidates in presidential elections and want someone new,” according to a recent Reuters/Ipsos poll.
In that same poll, Trump bested Biden 40% to 34%.
Trump is the overwhelming favorite to become the GOP standard bearer for the Nov. 5 election.
The 77-year-old former president defeated Haley in both Iowa and New Hampshire by double digits.
Bill Murray’s character Phil Connors, a weatherman in Pennsylvania, was stuck in a time loop in the classic flick.
Trump has secured 32 committed delegates to Haley’s 17. Polls show him with a yawning lead both nationally and in Haley’s home state of South Carolina.
Haley has been barnstorming the Palmetto State, where she served as governor for six years, ahead of the Feb. 24 contest — to minimal effect in the polls.
In a recent Washington Post/ Monmouth University survey, Trump nabbed 58% support in South Carolina, compared to Haley’s 32%.
The 52-year-old has insisted that the race is “just getting started” and emphasized that she is the last major challenger to Trump still left standing.
Nikki Haley served as Donald Trump’s US ambassador to the UN from 2017 to 2018. APTrump’s campaign shrugged off Haley’s broadsides against the 45th president.
“Nikki Haley is a stone cold loser who is becoming more irrelevant by the day,” spokesman Steven Cheung told The Post.
“The more people get to know her and her Democrat ties, the more they despise her for being a fraud. It’s clear she just simply does not have what it takes or the fortitude to stand up to Crooked Joe Biden.”
On Thursday, Trump’s campaign held an event featuring a slew of South Carolina Republicans who endorsed him over Haley, touting his grip on the party.
Ahead of the showdown in South Carolina, Haley has tempered expectations, arguing that she doesn’t have to win, but rather just has to “show that we’re competitive.”
Donald Trump and Joe Biden are the runaway frontrunners in the presidential election. REUTERSHaley’s campaign had $14 million cash on hand as of the end of last year as her Super PAC dries up, according to Federal Election Commission filings.
Trump’s campaign had more than $33 million cash on hand.
