Trump holds off Haley to win New Hampshire primary: Full coverage

Nikki Haley addresses members of the media on Tuesday near a polling site at Winnacunnet High School in Hampton, N.H. (Steven Senne/AP)

Nikki Haley made it very clear today that she has no plans to drop out of the Republican presidential race after the New Hampshire primary, regardless of the outcome.

Why? Well, her campaign released a 715-word memo explaining that a majority of the states that have yet to hold primaries allow independent voters — who Haley hopes to win over — to take part.

“Nikki Haley is the beneficiary of those Independents — in both the Republican primaries and the general election,” Haley campaign manager Betsy Ankney wrote in the memo, which was sent to reporters.

That includes the next big primary, in South Carolina on Saturday, Feb. 24. South Carolina “has no party registration, and anyone can vote in the Republican primary if they have not already voted in the Democrat primary,” Ankney wrote.

The Michigan primary on Feb. 27 is also open to independent voters. And then, out of 16 states holding primaries on March 5 — Super Tuesday — 11 of them “have open or semi-open primaries,” she wrote.

“After Super Tuesday, we will have a very good picture of where this race stands,” Ankney wrote.

The Haley campaign, however, will have to deal with declining support from donors if she loses big in New Hampshire, former Barack Obama adviser David Axelrod pointed out on CNN.