President-in-Exile Donald J. Trump thrashed Nikki Haley in the South Carolina Republican presidential primary on Saturday, with 60 percent of the vote and 47 delegates. This in a state where she served two terms as governor.
Major media outlets called the race for President Trump within seconds after the polls closed. The former president, in a message to supporters, declared the result a “complete and total victory.”
Indeed, at about 60 percent of the vote as of 9:35 p.m. local time on Feb. 24, his share of the total was the highest of the three primaries in which he has faced opposition.
President Trump won the Iowa caucuses with 51 percent of the vote, beating three principal challengers, including Ms. Haley, who collected 19 percent of the vote.
In New Hampshire, President Trump bested Ms. Haley by 54 to 43 percent.
In the Nevada caucuses, President Trump ran unopposed, garnering 99 percent of the vote.
Given the growing momentum of the Trump campaign and Ms. Haley’s inability to achieve a breakout result, the former president appears set to claim the nomination within weeks.
Failing to get the message, Haley promised to continue her campaign until at least the Super Tuesday primaries on March 5.
“I said earlier this week that no matter what happens in South Carolina, I would continue to run for president. I’m a woman of my word.”
Yeh, maybe. Remember this?
“I would not run if President Trump ran, and I would talk to him about it,”
I hope she at least “talked to him about it” before breaking her word as a woman.
Anyway, there’s a fine line between proceeding on principle and being a fool.
The prudent see danger and take refuge,
but the simple keep going and pay the penalty.
Proverbs 22:3
Dealing a further blow to whatever momentum she has left, Americans for Prosperity (AFP), funded by the not-so-conservative billionaire Koch Brothers, has pulled funding from her campaign.
AFP Action, the conservative wing of the powerful and influential conservative Americans for Prosperity, funded by the billionaire Koch Brothers, has pulled funding for the presidential campaign of Nikki Haley.
In an email to staffers obtained by Fox News, AFP Action senior adviser Emily Seidel said the group did not believe that “any outside group can make a material difference to widen [Haley’s] path to victory.”
“And so while we will continue to endorse her, we will focus our resources where we can make the difference. And that’s the U.S. Senate and House,” Seidel wrote.
The GOP is Trump’s. His candidacy is inevitable. It’s going to be Trump versus Brandon, unless the panicky Democrats swap him out for Michelle Obama, which is only far-fetched if she decides she can’t front for her husband’s fourth term.
Haley will last through the Super Tuesday primaries, then drop her bid as a Republican candidate. There are some murmurings that she will then pivot and run as a third-party candidate to try and spoil Trump’s run, siphoning off Independents who don’t like either Biden or Trump.
I’d like her to just drop out, period.
Haley would siphon votes from Trump and Kennedy would siphon votes from the dimwit in diapers, so they would cancel each other out. I’m pretty sure she knows that, so she should get out now.