As we covered earlier this week, Nikki Haley is voting for Donald Trump. Get up to speed here. Over at The Washington Post, Ramesh Ponnuru explains why Haley fell in line: Here is a taste” …If Trump were headed for […]
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Nikki Haley falls in line
Trump trashed her and her family, but today Nikki Haley announced that she will be voting for the former president in 2024. She did not say if she would campaign for Trump or do anything beyond casting a vote for […]
Nikki Haley is still racking-up GOP votes in presidential primaries
Yes, the GOP is still holding presidential primaries. And, as Steven Shepard and Madison Fernandez write at Politico, Nikki Haley is still getting chunks of votes. Trump, of course, has already secured enough delegates to win the nomination, but the […]
Nikki Haley wins nearly 17% of the vote in the Pennsylvania GOP primary
Nikki Haley is no longer running for the Republican nomination for President of the United States. But that did not stop her from getting 16.5% of the vote in Tuesday’s Pennsylvania primary. In other words, a significant portion of Pennsylvania […]
Mrs. Haley does not go to Washington?
Nikki Haley fights on, but is her campaign a lost cause?
The Koch network gives up on Nikki Haley
One of the major funders of Haley’s campaign is not spending any more money on it. Here is Natalie Allison at Politico: Americans For Prosperity Action, the powerful conservative group supporting Nikki Haley in the Republican presidential primary, will no […]
New poll: Haley trails Trump by 26 in South Carolina
Nikki Haley was a two-term governor of South Carolina, but this does not give her a home-field advantage in the 2024 GOP primary scheduled to take place later this month. A new Monmouth University-Washington Post poll has Trump at 58% […]
The Washington Post calls on Trump to debate Haley
Haley wants a debate. Trump does not. Here is The Post: The Republican National Committee will not anoint former president Donald Trump as the GOP’s “presumptive nominee” this week in Las Vegas after all. The Trump campaign wanted that formal designation bestowed […]
Nikki Haley should “go for broke” and “gently smack that gum” out of Trump’s mouth
Yesterday I suggested that Nikki Haley should, to use the words of writer Michael Wood, give Trump the “full Liz Cheney.” Peggy Noonan of The Wall Street Journal seems to agree. Here is a taste of her column “Nikki Haley […]
Nikki Haley and E. Jean Carroll are rattling Trump in the form of 37 Truth Social posts in two hours
Tori Otten of The New Republic informs us that Donald Trump made 37 Truth Social posts last night between 9:22 p.m. and 11:43 p.m. Here is Otten: Donald Trump posted at least 37 times about E. Jean Carroll, the night […]
It’s time for Nikki Haley to go “full Liz Cheney” on Trump
I am watching Sara Longwell, the publisher of The Bulwark, on CNN right now. She is calling on Nikki Haley to “go down swinging” in South Carolina. She wants the former South Carolina governor to give Trump the “full Liz […]
How might the New Hampshire primary results look different if we think of Trump as an incumbent?
Today at CNN, morning host John Berman offered a really interesting take on the New Hampshire primary. Here is part of the transcript from his exchange with Pete Seat, vice president of the Bose Public Affairs Group: BERMAN: And then, […]
Nikki Haley is moving to South Carolina and Trump is not happy about it
Trump won New Hampshire last night, but he remained obsessed with Nikki Haley. A normal politician would have acknowledged that Haley ran a good campaign and then ignored her in the rest of the speech, knowing she had little chance […]
The GOP’s new culture war is not about the evangelicals
The NH primary results show that evangelicals are not the central factor in Trump’s rise.
Nikki Haley’s Dixville Notch lead doesn’t hold up
She took an early 6-0 lead, but couldn’t sustain it. More coming tomorrow. Stay tuned.
Nancy Mace’s endorsement of Trump is “more hypocritical than it seems”
Last night we called your attention to South Carolina congresswoman Nancy Mace’s endorsement of Donald Trump. Over at The New Republic, Tori Otten writes, “You won’t believe the grossest part of Nancy Mace’s Trump endorsement.” Here is a taste: Republican […]
Nikki Haley takes an early lead in New Hampshire primary
She is leading 6-0, thanks to Dixville Notch. Here is the Associated Press: The six registered voters of tiny Dixville Notch in New Hampshire all cast their ballots for Nikki Haley at midnight on Tuesday, giving her a clean sweep over former […]
Nancy Mace: Trump must be “held accountable” for January 6, 2021. Oh, and by the way, I endorse him.
When South Carolina congresswoman Nancy Mace is not talking about her sex life at a prayer breakfast, she is endorsing Donald Trump. Here is Mace shortly after January 6, 2021: Here is ABC News: Donald Trump has picked up another […]
Polls: Trump still leads in New Hampshire GOP primary race
Washington Post-Monmouth University poll: Trump: 52%. Haley 34%, DeSantis 8%. CNN poll: Trump 50%. Haley 39%. DeSantis 6%. DeSantis dropped out of the race yesterday, after these polls were conducted. Politicos are saying that most of DeSantis’s votes will go […]
GOP: The “party of malice”
Here is Peter Wehner at The Atlantic: As soon as former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley emerged as the main threat to Donald Trump in the battle for the Republican nomination, it became inevitable that she would be targeted by […]