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Republican presidential contender Nikki Haley said Monday that frontrunner candidate and former boss Donald Trump will never win the 2024 general election. “We can’t have, as Republicans, him as the nominee. He can’t win a general election. That’s the problem. We’ve got to go and have someone who can actually win,” Haley told CNBC’s “Squawk Box.” But she said she will ultimately back Trump if he becomes the GOP standard bearer, despite her concerns about his chance at success. “I would support him because I am not going to have a President Kamala Harris,” said Haley, 51, referring to the...

A new Research 2000 poll of more than 2,000 Republicans, conducted for the liberal blog Daily Kos, has some eyebrow-raising findings: 63% of them believe President Obama is a socialist 53% believe Sarah Palin is more qualified to be president than Obama is 39% believe he should be impeached 36% believe he wasn't born in the United States 31% believe the president hates white people 24% believe the president wants the terrorists to win 23% believe their state should secede from the union

The mood in the lunch room of the Florida yacht club was electric. Though the freezing temperatures of ice-bound Massachusetts were a thousand miles away from the warm sunshine of Daytona Beach the talk at the local Republican Club was all about the victory there the day before. snip . . . Republicans are now resurgent, plotting to attack Democrats in seats that were once considered safe. Democrats are on the defensive, rapidly rowing back on their already stalled domestic agenda, and fearing the loss of dozens of congressional seats in November's midterm elections.