She announces and does NOT endorse Donald Trump, who IS now the Republican 2024 Presidential nominee going forward…
A East-Asia Republican woman….
She NEVER had a serious shot at the nomination….
But?
She HAS amassed a solid following within the party….
Her views on where her party should be is quite different than Trump….
She did congratulate Trump on his wins in the primaries….
Donald Trump, as who he IS…Has NOT been gracious about Haley dropping out…
ANYONE who is NOT WITH HIM?
Gets a beat down from a man with a HUGE EGO…
Joe Biden has already extended an invitation to disenchanted Haley, Never Trump, voters…
Haley also congratulated Trump on likely becoming the Republican nominee and said she wished him well, but stopped short of endorsing him, instead urging him to earn the support of Republicans and independent voters who backed her.
“I have always been a conservative Republican and always supported the Republican nominee,” Haley said. “But on this question, as she did on so many others, Margaret Thatcher provided some good advice when she said, quote, ‘Never just follow the crowd. Always make up your own mind.’ It is now up to Donald Trump to earn the votes of those in our party and beyond it who did not support him, and I hope he does that.”
The only woman in the Republican race and Trump’s final remaining major GOP rival, Haley campaigned on her foreign policy experience and general-election appeal, casting her candidacy as a generational change that could bring more voters into the Republican fold. She was the first candidate to announce a challenge to Trump and outlasted a large field of rivals who were viewed as more viable opponents to become the final candidate standing between him and the nomination, but her message struggled to appeal to a base that overwhelmingly supports the former president.
While Haley fell short of Trump in all but two nominating contests, polls showed her strength with suburban women and independents — key groups in the general election. Haley throughout her campaign repeatedly highlighted that hypothetical head-to-head polls showed her leading President Biden by a significant margin, in large part due to such voters….
Note….
Already we see what will the situation going forward dfor the next 244 days…..
Trump’s staff is out with a statement pointing to general election , moving AWAY from Trump’s pique at Nikki Haley, who DOES have a following now that Trump need’s and doesn’t feel he has to be nice to….
The Biden people ARE trying grab some of those Haley supporters who have to decide to still vote Republican, Not vote, or actually hold their noses and vote FOR Democrat President Biden….
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