Posted on 10/12/2023 11:10:34 AM PDT by conservative98
This might be Nikki Haley’s moment.
Not her moment to become the Republican presidential front-runner. (Don’t be silly.) Not even her moment to nip at Donald Trump’s heels. But it could be her chance to consolidate the anti-Trump support in the GOP, and to make a solid play for the silver medal and maybe a good speaking slot at the RNC in Milwaukee next summer.
The former South Carolina governor and United Nations ambassador has risen, slightly, in recent polls, and is now third in RealClearPolitics’ average of national polls, after Trump and Ron DeSantis. She is consistently coming in second in polling in the first-in-the-nation primary state of New Hampshire, having pulled ahead of DeSantis there. This week, she picked up the endorsement of former Representative Will Hurd when he dropped out of the Republican race. She’s appearing at two major donor conferences this month. Her boomlet is a long way from the big candidate bubbles of the 2012 and 2016 GOP primaries, but it’s the most notable surge in the race right now.
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Nearly a year of campaigning has revealed a huge gap between “Ron DeSantis,” the candidate conservative elites thought they were getting when they coalesced behind him last fall, and Ron DeSantis, the actual man Americans have seen on the trail.
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This combination enthralled "old-school" Republicans who had not either surrendered to Trumpism or abandoned the party. National Review practically became a DeSantis fanzine. Rupert Murdoch’s influential empire excitedly covered him, with the New York Post labeling him “DeFUTURE.”
Instead, they’ve gotten DeFlation. Just as my colleague Mark Leibovich predicted last November, the more people get to know DeSantis, the less they like him.
(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...
never never.... that indian took down the Confederate Flag in SC.... F her
any ticket with Haley’s name on it will get ZERO electoral votes in the south ... ZERO!
Their is no need for a pro-war, Free Trade/Anti-worker, open borders political party. That appeals to about 5% of the electorate.
The donors think that with the right candidate they can fool the voters once more. They are mistaken.
The US has drastically changed in the past 10-15 years. The average person’s standard of living and safety has gone down and nothing can make them not notice that.
you are delusional.
Voted for DT twice, but he lost me at “Desanctimonious”. Is there another example of one candidate, much less a former POTUS, deriding a rival’s name?
She’s very good (or at least her campaign, or is the trad-RINOs?) at sending multiple campaign postcards, repeating the same China threat stuff. We get 2-3 per week for the last 2 months. Got another today, in fact.
Someone’s spending tons of campaign money on her.
Fox polls are a joke try again.
And Trump has what ? Zero charisma .
I see a trump as a hate filled mean petty name calling arrogant bully who has serious legal real problems .
His business financials are awful .
We will lose a 6 th time since 2018 with trump .
I find feminized cluster B “leadership” unpalatable in comparison to solid representation.
You’re silly
Icky Nikki makes me sicky.
Pretty sure she is the Old Nikki Haley rather than the new Ron.
Dead-on-arrival. She has no chance of being nominated and even less chance of being elected President.
Yes, we see how Trump is plummeting in the polls.
No one remembers who wins silver medals. In the case of Meatball and ‘lil Nikki it is just best to forget them forever. Neither should be elected to national office, EVER.
Good point.
I do recall polls by Fox actually showing Biden edging ahead of President Trump. And we all know how that ended.
Human beings, of which you clearly aren’t.
What am I?
It ended with a stolen election
AT LEAST DeSantis is ELIGIBLE.
NIKKI HALEY IS NOT
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