Nikki Haley, who has yet to win a Republican nominating contest this year, isn’t predicting any victories on Super Tuesday. Rather, she’s seeking to dial back expectations, telling me that her goal heading into March 5 — the biggest primary day on the 2024 calendar — is a "competitive showing" against front-runner Donald Trump.

"We’re looking at it as we’re hoping for a good, competitive showing," Haley said Thursday in the first of a two-part interview with the former U.N. ambassador and South Carolina governor.

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She said that all of Trump’s legal challenges should be "dealt with" before November: "We need to know what’s going to happen before it — before the presidency happens. Because after that, should he become president, I don’t think any of it’s going to get heard."

She said that Trump shouldn’t be able to claim presidential immunity: "I don’t think that a president should be immune from anything. I think that a president has to live under laws, too. And he’s asking for things that no other president’s ever asked for. So I hope the Supreme Court rules quickly."

She said that she doesn’t know whether Trump would follow the Constitution if elected president again: "I don’t know. I mean, you always want to think someone will, but I don’t know."

And she said that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell should be commended for stepping down from his leadership position at the end of the year: "I wish that our presidential candidates would do the same thing. ... The fact that we have two candidates in their 80s blows my mind."