Nikki Haley doesn’t get it. The majority of Republicans love former President Donald Trump. CPAC made that clear.
Nikki Haley doesn’t get it.
The majority of Republicans love former President Donald Trump.
My own time this last week at the annual CPAC gathering made it crystal clear that the thousands of conservatives in attendance were not just supporting Trump — they were enthusiastically supporting Trump.
And that was before the South Carolina primary, where Haley, former governor of the state, was soundly defeated by Trump in her own backyard. Not to mention that Trump has won every primary he has entered — and she has lost every primary she has entered.
Then there were the humiliating results out of Nevada, as reported in Politico:
Worse than you can imagine: Haley loses to ‘none of these candidates’ in Nevada
The defeat, while symbolic, was a major embarrassment for the former South Carolina governor.
One would think that a rational, observant person would realize her campaign is going nowhere and gracefully withdraw and support the winner. That was exactly what Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis did, and one can be sure that in four years he will be able to try again. Which, one suspects, is exactly what he has in mind.
But not Haley.
Worse for her still, Haley has made crystal clear that her primary goal in running is to appease the failing old Washington Establishment.
As Haley repeatedly says of Trump, as recently in Michigan:
The problem is chaos literally follows him. We can’t be a country in disarray, in a world on fire, and go through four more years of chaos, we won’t survive.
Which is shorthand for her devotion to the same old, same old.
