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South Carolina primary

The Koch network gives up on Nikki Haley

John Fea   |  February 25, 2024

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

John Fea   |  February 1, 2024

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

John Fea   |  January 29, 2024

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

John Fea   |  January 26, 2024

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 […]

It’s time for Nikki Haley to go “full Liz Cheney” on Trump

John Fea   |  January 25, 2024

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 […]

Nikki Haley is moving to South Carolina and Trump is not happy about it

John Fea   |  January 24, 2024

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 […]

South Carolina senator Tim Scott will endorse Trump

John Fea   |  January 19, 2024

In 2012, South Carolina governor Nikki Haley needed to appoint a U.S. senator after Jim DeMint retired from the senate to become president of the Heritage Foundation. Haley chose a second term U.S. congressman named Tim Scott to finish the […]

Nikki Haley’s 3-2-1 GOP primary strategy

John Fea   |  November 18, 2023

Nikki Haley is surging in New Hampshire with a little more than two months to go before the January 23, 2024 primary. Can she win the GOP nomination? It’s a long shot. But according to journalist Ron Brownstein she has […]