http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/south-carolina-gov-nikki-haley-endorsing-marco-rubio/story?id=37006215Nikki Haley, the influential Republican governor of South Carolina, threw her support behind presidential candidate Marco Rubio Wednesday ahead of the state’s primary this weekend.
"I wanted somebody with fight. I wanted somebody with passion. I wanted somebody that had conviction to do the right thing, but I wanted somebody humble enough that remembers that you work for all the people,” she said Wednesday in Chapin, South Carolina.
Haley's endorsement offers a last-minute boost to the Florida senator in a state where he trails Donald Trump and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz.
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In a CNN-ORC poll released Wednesday, Rubio garnered 14 percent support compared to 21 for Cruz and 37 for Trump.
Rubio said he was honored to have Haley’s support as she "embodies for me everything that I want the Republican party and the conservative movement to be about. Everything it is about."
Both Haley and Rubio played up veterans’ affairs and the need to rebuild the military while speaking Wednesday.
"I am a military wife of a combat veteran. I want a president who will have the backs of our military veterans and those in active duty," said Haley.