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 ...
Nominating her is the only way to make me not vote against Biden.
If she were the nominee, I would sit it out - like I did in 2012 when Romney was the nominee.
Nick Knack Paddywhack Give a Uke a Bomb is more like a Lia Thomas. An imposter as a conservative.
Couldn’t have said it better.
Baris noted yesterday that the primary is over, has been over. “When you have one candidate with a 50 point lead, it is simply not a ‘race.’”
Still not voting for him, not voting for her.
Couldn’t have said it better.
See. This gets the LS stamp of approval.
I guess we are all Rinos now?
Posting this isn’t an attack on DeSantis or Haley. It is on the Never-Trump mentality that is in the Republican Party. And some of the pseudo, so-called intellectual magazine and newspaper types who comprise the Never Trumpers. Anyone has a problem with that then guess who the real RINOs are? If Rush Limbaugh was still alive this piece would be in his stack of stuff and he would be riffing on it.
“Trump is doing a splendid job of destroying his own candidacy…
That must be why his poll numbers are so terrible.
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