You might wanna forest all the people saying Donald Trump won’t be primaried….
Weld, Hogan, Amash and now maybe now Nikki Haley maybe testing the waters for a run against their party leader ‘The Donald’….
Just when you thought it would be about the Democrats and Biden has taken the drama away?
The Grand ole’ Party’ may come to rescue….
Since leaving the United Nations last year, Nikki Haley’s moves have been closely watched for signs that the former South Carolina governor will run for the White House in 2024.
A new advocacy group, a new book and a series of high-profile speaking engagements were seen as steps toward a presidential bid.
Now Haley is heading to Iowa.
“You go to Iowa for one reason — and it’s not for the food,” said Rick Tyler, a top aide in Texas Sen. Ted Cruz’s 2016 presidential campaign.
Haley will headline Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst’s 2020 kickoff campaign fundraiser called the Roast and Ride on June 15 — putting her in the state that begins the presidential primary season every four years. Ernst’s 2015 Roast and Ride drew seven GOP White House hopefuls, including S.C. Sen. Lindsey Graham.
Haley’s staff quickly pointed out that the former United Nations ambassador was invited to headline the Ernst fundraiser, as well as others outside of early primary states.
Haley also has top billing at upcoming campaign events for West Virginia Sen. Shelley Moore Capito and Colorado Sen. Cory Gardner, and she is the featured speaker at next week’s gala for anti-abortion group Susan B. Anthony List in Washington, D.C. And she has headlined fundraisers in New York for four Republican female senators and top GOP donors.
“Ambassador Haley has no plan to run for political office,” Haley spokeswoman Chaney Denton said Friday. “America is the greatest country in the world, and she believes we all have a part to play in keeping it that way. For her, that means using the power of her voice to stand up for conservative candidates and policies that make America stronger.”….
I think Haley is laying the groundwork for 2024.
Running in the primaries against Trump would be the dumbest political move she could possibly make.Trump would handily defeat her and she would alienate his Cult who comprise a major part of the Republican Party.
In your words James….
Ain’t Gonna Happen!
An even easier target since her grandparents were not all of Christian European ancestry.
And, though Jack could tell us far better than I, I’m sure that there must be a group of Neo-Confederates and advocates for [White} Southern Heritage who still haven’t forgiven her part in taking down the Confederate flag in Charleston after the mass church shooting.
That’s true.
Haley is hated by many of the Confederistas for pulling the plug on the flag.
One must remember that prior to the Church shooting,Nikki’s public position was that nobody ever talked to her about wanting the flag gone.
In South Carolina one could say garbage like that with a straight face and get away with it.
Giving Haley her due though ,I think she really wanted to take the rag down(it was demonstrably hurting business in the state) and wisely used the Church shooting as the vehicle to end the silliness.
But to paraphrase William Faulkner,in the south the past is never even “past.”
Those Confederistas despise her as a traitor.
Her parents are immigrants.
People who dislike that though? Where are they going to go? They are loyal to Trump.
Evangelicals who used Pence as their reason to hold their nose and vote for Trump in 2016? They have been totally co-opted. Trump doesn’t need to be loyal to Pence. Where are they going to go?
Frankly, it would be a good political move.
You guys think Trump would actually want a women running mate?
REALLY?
I think she might very well be Trump’s running mate in 2020. Remember where you heard it.