Haley isn’t expected to make an endorsement but will encourage Donald Trump to earn the support of the voters who backed her. What else? How should Trump respond?
Haley Exits the Race
The Wall Street Journal reports Nikki Haley to Exit Republican Presidential Race
Nikki Haley plans to suspend her Republican presidential primary bid in a speech Wednesday morning, people familiar with her plans told The Wall Street Journal.
The former South Carolina governor and United Nations ambassador is expected to make an appearance to deliver brief remarks in the Charleston, S.C., area around 10 a.m. ET. Her decision arrived the day after Super Tuesday, when she won only Vermont among 15 states that held GOP contests.
Haley won’t announce an endorsement Wednesday, the people said. She will encourage Donald Trump, who is close to having the delegates needed to win the GOP nomination, to earn the support of Republican and independent voters who backed her.
She is expected to emphasize that she will continue to advocate for the conservative domestic and foreign policies she supports and caution against some of the dangers, such as isolationism and a lack of fiscal discipline, that she sees coming from Washington.
In a statement late Tuesday, Haley’s campaign noted her wins while scoffing at Trump’s characterization of the party as united. “Today, in state after state, there remains a large block of Republican primary voters who are expressing deep concerns about Donald Trump,” spokeswoman Olivia Perez-Cubas said. “That is not the unity our party needs for success.”
Haley pledged earlier in the campaign to endorse the party’s eventual nominee but has since refused to reaffirm that commitment when asked about Trump. “What I will tell you is that I have serious concerns about Donald Trump. I have more serious concerns about Joe Biden,” she said in a Journal interview in late February.
Trump has said he wouldn’t want her as a vice-presidential running mate and she has also said that she wouldn’t want the job.
“I don’t want to be anybody’s vice president,” Haley said shortly before the New Hampshire primary. “That is off the table.”
What’s the Point?
Yesterday I asked, Hello Nikki Haley, What’s the Point of Staying in this Non-Race?
Today we have the answer. There is no point.
Reading between the lines, it appears Haley has ruled out running on the “No Labels” ticket.
Party Not United
I agree with Haley that the party is not united. However, it’s more united than Haley wants to admit.
Importantly, it remains to be seen what happens if Trump is convicted.
Is Trump an Isolationist?
Haley said she will continue to advocate for the conservative domestic and foreign policies she supports and caution against some of the dangers, such as isolationism and a lack of fiscal discipline.
Trump is a strong backer of Israel. He will not let Iran be. He has reached out to North Korea.
Trump is more of an opportunist than a strict isolationist. I would rather have a mind your own business type of president, but at least Trump is far better than Haley on this score.
Small Government? Fiscal Discipline? Where?
A for small government, they are all liars. Look at what Republicans are doing. They just supported expansion of child tax credits.
What small government did Trump deliver in his term? Please recall Trump was upset Republicans did not deliver a bigger Covid stimulus package.
Biden got the highly inflationary package that Trump got.
Trump wants big military expansion. How will he pay for it? And he has ruled out touching Social Security and Medicare.
So let me ask again, “small government, where?”
Tariffs, Sanctions, and Free Trade
It’s proven time and time again that sanctions backfire. Trump supports them. So does Biden.
Only a few of us Libertarians support free trade. This is another area where Trump and Biden are in 100% agreement.
Tariffs are a huge tax on consumers. More jobs are lost than gained on both sanctions and tariffs.
Earning Support of Haley Backers
This is where Haley is most correct. Trump’s childish “Bird Brain” name calling of Haley and “New Scum” of California Governor Gavin Newsome cannot possibly win any voters.
At best, all it can do is alienate voters enough to many to sit the election out. At worst it will ring up some votes for Biden.
Trump Would Rather Win Adoration From the Base Than Win the Election
I commented on Trump’s big problem in Trump Would Rather Win Adoration From the Base Than Win the Election
His core supporters love Trump’s cat calls but it is not going to win Trump any votes. The base is going nowhere.
Trump would be wise to take Haley’s advice and earn the support of her backers.
That does not mean adopting Haley’s warmongering policies. But it does means explaining why she is wrong, and stopping the name calling across the board.
Haley Statement
Biden is so pathetic and senile that perhaps Trump can win without Haley backers or independents given Biden’s losing of many black and young voters and overall lack of enthusiasm for Biden.
But eight months is a long way off. Biden might be forced to drop out due to medical conditions. Trump might be convicted.
In either of those scenarios, Trump cannot afford to alienate voters. It’s time to make amends and that is best done with rational discussions of policy rather than name calling.
I don’t think anyone really believes that “Nikki Haley” was either a Republican or a serious candidate. She just seems like a Democrat candidate.
There really are no serious candidates any more, and Trump is at least a big middle finger to those who made it that way.
What the media leftist establishment refuse to acknowledge, is that they created Trump, and they did it for clicks.
More money, Less Negativity.
Sad to see you say there is no way to make government smaller except cut Social Security or Medicare. I guess your are still a ways away from needing either. Even if you saved enough for retirement, you will have to self insure for your health. How about the states taking back their Constitutional rights and doing education and so many other things better than the creativity choking government agency mandates. The federal government agencies are central planning bloated pigs.
They are both too old. 30 or 40 cents says to a dollar Biden won’t make it to the election. Trump? Maybe 5 cents to the dollar. This video: link to youtube.com shows Trump rambling, rambling, rambling. Not a good look.
As voters, we should be evaluating the VPs and the team members. With regard to the latter, neither candidate has a great track record, though Trump had, emphasis “had“, an excuse.
Trump is fine, and it’s a bit late for his detractors to try this angle. They must know that they’ve already lost, not because of Trump, but because they can’t find and field a half decent candidate. They are handing it to Trump by picking such appallingly bad candidates like Hillary and Kamala and Biden. There are so many better people out there, but the Democrat party is clearly malfunctioning when it wheels out the sort of deadbeats that infest Congress and the presidential candidate field. They are a toxic joke.
Trump is the product of a broken mefia-publicsector-political-donor establishment, don’t blame him for being a reality TV president, that’s what his imbecile enemies created.
Makes me laugh how each side says the opposition is too old to govern. Both are right but they refuse to look objectively at their own guy. Both glitch both make mistakes and bot stumble. What company would hire either of them as CEO?
Haha, no name calling….. hahahaha That’s all he’s really got, and his people love it.
Please boycott all Jewish and zionists businesses. Don’t buy Sabra hummus,pom wonderful or Wonderful pistachios.ask any if they support Israel and do business with them. if.i.find anyone on here supporting Israel we will boycott.your.business.
let’s boycott all Palestinian businesses because they support Hamas and Hamas-style barbarianism.
Hamas was funded by.nutenyahoo. the Palestinians view them as freedom fighters . Israel rapes and murders every year .
I thought you meant hoummous, the vegan militant jihadis
Antisemitism is living rent free in your head Dave.
I guess only Jewish organizations are allowed to boycott. But if you boycott them, then it’s antisemitism. Got it.
Dave, Are you suggesting we should behave like the ADL and the World Jewish Congress?
What about star of David pastries made by Palestalibanians?
In related fantastic news, two crew members are dead from a Houthi strike. I’m definitely going to the hoouthi and blowfish concert next time. israelis are vicious.satanic.animals.
Good God man, get back on your meds asap.
Trump will add even more debt and destroy America. He will start a war in the middle because his zionist Jew son in law is pro Israel. After all jes and Israel are special and we goyim are animals and sex toys for their service.
So far, Joe Biden has promoted escalations in the region with no restraint on Israel
children are dying of starvation because of this zionist monster.
you fuckers are down.voting on starving children.
We are all starving children.
Children are dying because too many in power are only concerned with increasing their power & control, everybody not instrumental in assisting their ruthless pursuit of power is just collateral damage or maybe useful idiots for a while and then expendable.
Children are dying in other places due to Muslim monsters too.
Does it matter what flavour of monster it is? Or is that an important part of your propaganda?
Dave, You need to tone it down. Sure Israel and Jewish billionaires hold large influence in this country as can be seen by the pandering of our politicians to the Israeli Lobby. Sure you’re upset that our country is supplying bombs that are slaughtering innocent Palestinians. Sure our national leaders are a bunch of paid off stooges with no moral compass who look the other way as children are intentionally starved. But you are dealing with sheeple here and you can not expect them to step outside the Overton window that fences them in. They have been trained to react in a certain way when you verbally attack Israel. You hear the bleats of “antisemitism, antisemitism”, “Dave is baaaa-d”,….. Let them graze in peace.
Your response sounds sheeple to me. So many peoples response is to start blaming the “others” whoever they may be instead going to the source that wants to keep the sheeple divided and it is working!
she should go to jail for saying ” finish them ” and l
” level it” for promoting genocide. please call fake pizza orders to her house and her parents house. I hope there are are more swatting calls but I won’t do it. she deserves worse as a scum bag war criminal.Shes a horrid phony like meg Whitman who ran for governor in California.Cringe!
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The big question concerning Trump will be, who does he appoint to positions of power. It is they that will run the show. Last time around he made horrible choices that went against his instincts (like getting out of Afghanistan). As Ann Coulter complains, Trump is easily rolled.
Yes, he is. He’s got my vote though so far. You’d have to be out of your mind to vote for Biden. I’m not crazy about Trump, but you can’t have all these illegals coming over destroying our country. Also, the crime is out of control. Unfortunately, he is not concerned about the debt. I think the debt crisis will happen on his term because TPTB want a scapegoat and they hate Trump. Just seeing that psychotics shill screeching about Trump makes me ecstatic. Millions others just like her.
Given the choice I’m voting Trump. Hopefully he learned something from the cutthroat Demo-rats
If Biden somehow is elected again I fear there will be some sort of physical revolt.
They must try another election fraud. Too many are facing long prison sentences.
I’m actually more worried about the swamp blocking a duly elected Trump than a bunch of boaters and blue-collar red hat yokels blocking a duly elected Biden
Both would if they could. Only one group can.
None of this matters because we are not going to be allowed to vote our way out of this.
Good riddance to neocon Nikki: corrupt grifting swamp creature, war monger, and Israeli spokeswoman.
What’s next for Haley? Disreputed politicians often take up the cloth. Get thee to a nunnery, Ms. Nikki.
If Trump is convicted, it just shows that America is a third world banana republic ruled by a senile dictator, a law enforcement straight out of Papa Joe Stalin’s Russia, and a media of liars . Look at the three witches of MSNBC PJoy Reid, Rachel Madcow and Jenn Psaki last night ridiculing voters in Virginia saying immigration was issue number two. Virginia only has a border with West Virginia. Good Lord, it is the policy of the Biden crime regime to fly illegal aliens all over the country.
Whatever happened to Give em Hell Harry Truman? Or Mary Jo Kopechne’s murderer borking an outstanding nominee to the Supreme Court. Unlike Haley and other RINOs who believe in swallowing every piece of hate, lie and smear Senile Joe, Pelosi and the media throw at him, Trump fights back
I’ll let you have all your partisan drivel. But how can you blame Biden for flying migrants around the country when it’s been admitted that it’s Abbott and DeSantis?
You don’t quite have your details right. Biden is flying them in directly from their countries bypassing the trek to the border, several hundred thousand last count.
Looking at the primaries, Trump is stronger than the remaining swamper GOP. The people have spoken.
Haley won D.C. making her the new Swamp Queen!
Nikki is out because George Sorrows has finally quit sending her checks. Hope she saved some of it because nobody will need her now.
Yes Biden is old. Trump is old, is a repulsive degenerate and pathological liar and is about to be very, very broke. The orange stain doesn’t have a chance regardless of whether he’s convicted before the election or not.
Just like a sheeple always say the opposition is doing what their side is doing! Hopefully, you are smarter than you seem here.
I wonder what she is going to buy with the loot from this gig. I’d buy the Washington Generals team if I were her since they also make money losing.
The deep state will just have to do with Joe Biden, but assign him some hawkish vice-prez in case he has an “accident”, like slipping on a staircase.
I will be the first to say that Democrats will NOT except Trump. Period. So they will not certify the election.
Ridiculous, of course they will
There will be plenty of calls for them not to – I will grant you that
If Trump wins, he’ll pull in a Senate majority and retain the House majority. The new Congress is installed before POTUS certification.
Any attempt to deny Trump via certification will require GOP support
I do think you’ll see attempts with it though, and also with the state electors
The sane element of republicanism (probably 10-15% of the total) will simply fail to vote for for a presidential candidate, and the issues of abortion rights and democracy will enable “the mother of all democratic turnouts.
HEHEHEHEHEEEEEE!
LOL
YOLO
YMMV
Anybody who cares about “democracy” will cast a vote against the DNC
Haley only stayed in so that she would be the obvious alternative if Trump is unable to be the nominee due to his legal issues or some health issue that pops up.
“What’s Next for Republicans?”
Umm, win?
Haley is probably smart enough to know that Trump will completely fumble her assist in giving him a window to show more than zero gravitas.
It sounds like democracy might survive the next election.
Alienating voters: no one does it more bigly than Trump.
Making amends & engaging in rational discussions: not the King Chaos way.
I bet you have blue hair and a nose ring. Probably identify as “sis” gender and hang out in traffic wearing black spandex 3 sizes too small for your 400lb frame.
For me, the problem with Trump (and no, I would never vote for Biden either), is that he is reckless, irresponsible and completely careless when it comes to the nations Fiscal Health! He just does not care, and he will spend spend spend!
I fully understand this view.
I will likely vote Libertarian. At the same time I see it will either be Trump or Biden.
I would rather have Trump start acting Presidential because one of them will win barring extreme setups like Biden dropping out.
Mish you’re a smart n savvy guy. You know there is only 1 choice and 1 chance until its all too far gone. Reversing course on EVERY issue is the ONLY WAY. It’s okay to say Trump is that only chance…. and no I wouldn’t be friends with him or have him over for dinner. But I tend to feel that way in one way or another about almost ALL elected and unelected government criminals
Well, if you’re not voting for either, your opinion means squat.
Part of the reason Trump doesn’t mind spending is because he’s personally very familiar with bankruptcy. He’s used it to his advantage many times in business dealings and during his first term he hinted at doing it at the federal level in order to buy back US debt from foreign countries (read: China) at pennies on the dollar as a way to reduce federal debt.
President Trump tried to cut government and spending beginning with his Section 9 gambit. He was thwarted by Justice Katanji Brown who was rewarded with a seat on the Supreme Court. He’ll try again, harder.
A true democracy would have an figurative candidate on the ballot, let’s call it a big fat finger. That would make it unmistakable whether the non-voters don’t like any of the parties or do not bother at all.
I think you are sadly mistaken about Trumo. And Haley. He has no chance of winning, unlikely to be endorsed. Haley has no chance of winning either but will hang in there to be ready for another tilt at the 2028 election. I still think someone like Liz Chaney might still emerge and turn the Republican fortunes around, but they are broke and have lost their way. Very little chance.
Oh good! An alternative neocon war monger!
Sad is thinking Trump has no chance of winning. If you’re an American, you’re a sorry excuse for one.
Liz Cheney isn’t a conservative in any way shape or form. Wtf are you taking about….. Pure definition of RINO and she is more communist demoRAT than anything else
The childish characterizations have to stop. Agreed.
Shooting himself in the foot.
Biden supporter?
Why? When you are at war with fuking insane communist democrats and shitbag RINO, name calling and belittling is the necessary recipe. Grow a pair
After all, the Alinsky playbook ushered in under the Clinton’s and fully enacted under Obama is the game now. Eirher play it or quit
His childish behavior is and always was purposely inflammatory.
Polarization intensification.
Dogs trapped in cages berated by strangers with masks poked and prodded until only emotional reactions are possible.
Thinking voting matters?
Nothing changes.
It’s all theatre.
They are on stage and you’re the audience.