'She knows it's a lie': Donald Trump slams Nikki Haley on 'Fox & Friends' for claiming she is a better candidate to defeat Joe Biden in 2024 polls

NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK: The March 5 Super Tuesday episode had Donald Trump join co-hosts Lawrence Jones and Brian Kilmeade for a phone interview on 'Fox & Friends.'

The former president downplayed recent polls which showed his GOP competitor Nikki Haley performing better against incumbent Joe Biden, and doubled down on his claim of being the candidate that the party should rally behind to secure the White House in the upcoming presidential election.

Haley had earlier stated in a Texas campaign event, "If you look at any of the general election polls, Joe Biden and Donald Trump are even. I think there was a Fox poll today, he was up by two. That's still a margin of error. Between last week's poll, in this week's poll, I defeat Joe Biden by up to 18 points."

Donald Trump slams Nikki Haley

"It's a lie. She knows it's a lie," Trump told the co-hosts during the interview. "She said she'd never run against me and she did. She said she beat Ron DeSantis … in Iowa, and she didn't," he added.

"I want everybody to come together," he said. "We're going to have a unified party because our real opponent happens to be named Biden, and he's a disaster, as I said, the worst president in our country. He's destroying our country," Trump added.

"There's no path to Nikki. I wish Nikki the best, but she stood up many times, said, 'I'd never run against our president. He was a great president. I would never run.' And then she ran," he continued. "Those things you don't like to see. You like to see people that are truthful," Trump said.

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The US Supreme unanimously overruled the Colorado Supreme Court's decision to take the former president off the ballot for the presidential primaries on March 4.

"Well I think having a unanimous vote was really great," Trump said on the subject. "People were hoping for it because there should be no question. If you're going to win or lose, you have to win or lose at the ballot box, not in a courtroom," he added.

"It was a really well-crafted decision. People were very happy about it. Actually all sides, pretty much, were respectful of it," he further said.