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‘TROUNCED’: Donald Trump Rips Nikki Haley After She Refused to Endorse Him
Breitbart ^ | 03/06/2024 | WENDELL HUSEBØ

Posted on 03/06/2024 8:07:04 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27

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To: Responsibility2nd
The devil had her over a barrel. I don’t blame her for lying to the devil.

I blame her for striking the devil deal in the first place.

61 posted on 03/06/2024 9:36:17 AM PST by FreeReign
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To: FreeReign
“I said I wanted Americans to have their voices heard,” Haley said. “I have done that. I have no regrets.”

 

There would have been absolutely no way for Haley to have done that if she had not signed that phony pledge.

And think about this: Haley has done Trump a huge favor by energizing his huge base together in anger over her RINO antics, separate and apart from this silly pledge nonsense.

Don't get me wrong. I'm not even a Nikki supporter. The list of reasons why I oppose her is too numerous to mention. But she was backed into a corner over this phony RNC pledge. And now Trump is profiting from it.

How is this a bad thing?

62 posted on 03/06/2024 9:46:23 AM PST by Responsibility2nd (A truth that’s told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent ~ Wm. Blake)
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To: Responsibility2nd

“Funny how the RNC gave Trump a free pass on signing the pledge.”

nothing hinky about that at all and no “free pass” by the RNC: the pledge was simply a requirement to appear on the GOP primary debate stage; trump had no plans to “debate” a gaggle of irrelevant Lilliputians herded by cabal of leftist propaganda talking heads, so had no requirement to make said pledge ... no debate, no pledge ... simple as that ...


63 posted on 03/06/2024 9:53:33 AM PST by catnipman (A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil)
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To: Yo-Yo

I believe we generally agree, but think I see her differently than you do. Maybe
not.

At this point it’s Trump or Biden.

She can’t figure out which one is best for the nation? It became clearer
and clearer over time that Nikki was in this for her, not the nation. This
more or less proves it. She was slamming Trump any way she could.

She was lost in space for the whole time. This just proves how lost she
was. Ted Cruise ended any thought of being a viable candidate for
president by this same refusal.

Haley is a full blown clown.


64 posted on 03/06/2024 10:05:17 AM PST by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the USofA & to the Constitutional REPUBLIC for which it stands.)
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To: vivenne
Seriously??? how about how Nikki treated the President after he gave her a UN job?????

I even capitalized the word JUSTIFIED, yet you still fail to get the point? SMH.

65 posted on 03/06/2024 10:16:12 AM PST by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
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To: catnipman

the pledge was simply a requirement to appear on the GOP primary debate stage

____________________________________________________

Correct. And every one of those also rans were manipulated into signing the pledge or they would have been denied a chance to debate.


66 posted on 03/06/2024 10:22:37 AM PST by Responsibility2nd (A truth that’s told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent ~ Wm. Blake)
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To: silverleaf

But Dems can call others names with impunity and win.


67 posted on 03/06/2024 10:34:24 AM PST by Fledermaus (Is it me, or all of a sudden have the buried trolls come out on FR like cicadas? It's all noise.)
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To: Huskrrrr

Good one


68 posted on 03/06/2024 10:37:25 AM PST by Fledermaus (Is it me, or all of a sudden have the buried trolls come out on FR like cicadas? It's all noise.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

[Of course she didn’t. Had she ignored it, she would not have been on any debate stages or had access to RNC campaign funds.]


Whereas Ronna McDaniel, Trump’s hand-picked RNC chair, funded Trump’s legal bills to the tune of tens of millions without requiring the pledge. One problem with Trump’s mouthiness is serious difficulties with getting the party factions to unify around him. Reagan, the most charismatic Republican of the last 50 years, limited his attacks on his GOP and Democrat opponents because he wanted as many of them as possible to vote for him in the general.

Reagan recognized that the GOP is, like all political parties, a coalition of both beliefs and interests. Many of these voters would have to hold their noses to vote for him over their preferred (primary loser) GOP candidate in the general election. By choosing runner-up Bush as his VP, he sought to mollify the biggest GOP faction. Even then, third place GOP contender John Anderson launched an independent bid that cost Reagan 6% of the popular vote.

Trump’s mouthiness has cost him votes in both elections. Based on past history, it’s unlikely he will make the compromises necessary to elicit a Haley endorsement.

Reagan never bad-mouthed John Anderson the way Trump has gone after Haley. But Anderson launched a third party bid to deny Reagan the presidency anyway.

The odds of Haley not just avoiding a Trump endorsement, but launching an independent bid are limited only by personal inclination. There are plenty of wealthy backers willing to help her put Biden back in office, and Trump-haters happy to put her on corporate boards as reward for an abortive run aimed at sabotaging Trump.


69 posted on 03/06/2024 10:40:10 AM PST by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room)
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To: DoughtyOne

[It became clearer
and clearer over time that Nikki was in this for her, not the nation. This
more or less proves it. She was slamming Trump any way she could.]


By refusing the pledge, Trump made it clear that it was all about ambition and personal pride for him. That’s what candidates do - they make the astonishingly arrogant assumption that they are the best the nation can gin up to run the place.


70 posted on 03/06/2024 10:48:59 AM PST by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room)
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To: Responsibility2nd

“And every one of those also rans were manipulated into signing the pledge or they would have been denied a chance to debate.”

awwwww ... also rans being “manipulated” ... boo, fricking hoo ...


71 posted on 03/06/2024 10:50:44 AM PST by catnipman (A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil)
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To: Zhang Fei

Well said!


72 posted on 03/06/2024 10:56:17 AM PST by Responsibility2nd (A truth that’s told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent ~ Wm. Blake)
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To: Huskrrrr; dfwgator

Oh I remember that well

Who ya gonna call?


73 posted on 03/06/2024 11:20:10 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: Zhang Fei

You made a series of statements that are highly debatable—at a minimum.

President Trump is who he is.

He will win or lose based on that.

You are not going to reshape him in an image that you like.

Lol.


Reagan was a charmer—that was his temperament, that was who he was. It was not the only way—but it was his way and it worked for him.

What folks have forgotten is that eventually the left tried to prove Reagan was involved in Iran Contra so they could impeach him and/or throw him in jail. They tried really hard—but because they failed it has faded in memory.


74 posted on 03/06/2024 11:26:36 AM PST by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: cgbg

[You made a series of statements that are highly debatable—at a minimum.

President Trump is who he is.

He will win or lose based on that.

You are not going to reshape him in an image that you like.

Lol.]


Trump, like Reagan, Clinton and Obama, has a solid, not quite majority of voters who back him due to his personal charisma. The issue with Trump is that unlike those other leaders, he alienates people outside of his core with slashing personal attacks on leaders people outside of that core respect and admire. His addiction to schoolyard taunts has suppressed his poll numbers. If he loses in 2024, this urge to inflict petty humiliations on his rivals will likely have been a factor.

Note that he is still likely to win, based on current polling trends. From start to finish, 2020 polls consistently showed Biden with a lead averaging 7 points or more. He won by 4%. Since the 2024 campaign kicked off, we have seen Trump with an average poll lead of 1%. If the polls have the same slant as 2020, Trump could win the popular vote by 4%. That would likely secure him the presidency, given the tenor of swing state votes in 2016 and 2020.

https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/president/general/2020/trump-vs-biden
https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/president/general/2024/trump-vs-biden

Even the money question isn’t that important. Biden does have 4x Trump’s cash. But in 2020, Trump started with a huge cash advantage, ended it with a huge cash deficit vis-a-vis Biden. And yet Biden polled double digits above Trump at the beginning, high single digits above Trump at the end, when the Democrat’s cash advantage was it its peak.


75 posted on 03/06/2024 11:49:40 AM PST by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room)
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

No. She would get to keep the money if she stayed in the race till election day. It’s the reason why some dirtbags like Antony Weiner permit themselves ALL the humiliations. They must stay in it to win it.


76 posted on 03/06/2024 11:54:03 AM PST by definitelynotaliberal (I believe it! He's alive! Sweet Jesus!)
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To: definitelynotaliberal

Thx


77 posted on 03/06/2024 11:55:11 AM PST by aMorePerfectUnion
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To: silverleaf

PDJT is a New Yorker, a businessman, a showman and, last of all , a politician. If I wanted a politician for president, I vote elsehwere.

I want a guy who knows how to get the job done. And the way he runs his mouth, if it gets the job done, I could care less.

He knows what he needs to do to get elected-and I’m not interested in a candidate who has to be told what to do to get elected.

He in all probability will be the first person elected president THREE times since FDR. He does not suffer fools, traitors and the corrupt


78 posted on 03/06/2024 11:56:51 AM PST by mo ("If you understand, no explanation is needed; if you don't understand, no explanation is possible)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

She is still a Mitt Romney, Liz Cheney friend.


79 posted on 03/06/2024 12:00:43 PM PST by Eva
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To: Yo-Yo

I kinda agree. The minute DeSantis endorsed him, trump stopped the name calling.


80 posted on 03/06/2024 12:41:33 PM PST by napscoordinator (DeSantis is a beast! Florida is the freest state in the country! )
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