While the Republican former South Carolina Governor IS doing good as the SECOND place Republican to Donald Trump for the 2024 Presidential nomination?
A closer look at WHO actually supports her in the Grand ole Party ….
AT THIS TIME?
She’s move to the second in line with NO chance to grab the nomination away from Mr. Trump unless he screws things up HIMSELF….
Which is entirely possible….
Dan Pfeiffer: “Haley gained ground in recent months by consolidating support among the minority of the party that opposes Trump. Her gains have not come at the expense of Trump or even DeSantis. Haley has benefited from the exits of Pence and Tim Scott, and Chris Christie’s failure to catch on.”
“Haley is consolidating support among a relatively small wing of the party. In a Monmouth University poll released this week, only 37% of Republicans do not support the MAGA movement. Even if she got every one of those votes, it would be insufficient to win the nomination. Sure, she could win New Hampshire, but there is no path to victory without winning over MAGA voters.”
Nate Cohn: “Ms. Haley appeals squarely to the relatively moderate, highly educated independents and Republicans who do not support Mr. Trump, giving her the inside path to a resilient base. It’s a base that, almost by definition, even Mr. Trump can’t touch.”
Note…
She IS bound to do good in the first few contests and strongly in the South Carolina GOP primary….
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Haley’s edge in the Wall Street primary comes as no surprise given her tenure in South Carolina. As governor, Haley was so deferential to big business and so openly hostile to workers and unions that her record stands out even within the decidedly chamber of commerce–aligned and anti-labor party to which she belongs. As the Huffington Post’s Dave Jamieson details, Haley has never hidden her virulent hatred of unions and, despite her state boasting the lowest union density of any in America at just 1.7 percent, she never relented in her crusade to purge it of union jobs altogether. “Any truly objective review of South Carolina’s business landscape notes the benefit we get from the minimal role unions play in our state,” she declared in a 2015 address to the state’s legislature. “We don’t have unions in South Carolina because we don’t need unions in South Carolina.”
Haley wasn’t being the least bit hyperbolic. Even before she was first inaugurated, she appointed a “union avoidance” lawyer (her choice of words) to run the state’s labor department, and, once in office, she signed an executive order that prevented striking workers from collecting unemployment benefits, even though such a law was already on the books. In 2014, she said she’d favor no jobs coming to South Carolina over unionized ones, adding, “We don’t want to taint the water.” Determined to prevent workers at a North Charleston Boeing facility from unionizing with the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM), Haley personally appeared in ads for the company in an effort to discourage them. The atmosphere she helped to create proved so fanatically hostile to union drives that the IAM was forced to delay the vote, citing an “atmosphere of threats, harassment and unprecedented political interference” that saw several of its organizers threatened at gunpoint during a canvas.
As Jamieson points out, neither historic levels of popular support for unions nor the attempts made by some of Haley’s GOP colleagues to sound less avowedly anti-worker have seemed to shift her position even one iota. “I was a union buster,” she recently boasted to Fox News while taking aim at striking autoworkers. “I didn’t want to bring in companies that were unionized simply because I didn’t want to have that change the environment in our state.” Among other things, Haley’s anti-union posture clearly yielded dividends for her donors and wealthy investors: in addition to its record-low union density, South Carolina’s median wage today stands at just $37,250 (or forty-seventh in the country).
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https://jacobin.com/2023/12/nikki-haley-republican-anti-worker-conservative-presidential-candidate-union-busting
What seems strange in a state with only 1.7% unionization (lowest in the Union) is that South Carolina is also the only state besides New York to have a Working Families Party (union-based, as were the NY Liberal and American Labor Parties)
No doubt this must partly be due to local election law. Most states will not add up votes for the same candidate on separate party lines (so a candidate’s vote on line B means one less total votes for that candidate on line A), but New York does (thus electing, inter alia, Republicans Fiorello La Guardia with ALP votes and John Lindsay on Liberal Party votes).
I hypothesise that the Palmetto State must have a similar rule.
The state, like several other ones, has retiring people for the NorthEast…
Could some of the transplants be WFP people?
Yes S.C. has a law like New Yorks and a candidate can total his votes from multiple parties.However it has to my knowledge never affected an election winner.
Jack HAS pointed out repeatily here….
Haley is NOT a moderate …