Exclusive poll: Nikki Haley surges, nearly ties Ron DeSantis as the alternative to Trump

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Former UN ambassador Nikki Haley has surged nationally in a new USA TODAY/Suffolk University Poll, challenging a faltering Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis as the top alternative to Donald Trump for the GOP presidential nomination.

Haley's support has risen to 11% of registered voters who plan to vote in GOP primaries or caucuses, up from 4% in the USA TODAY/Suffolk poll taken in June and just one percentage point below DeSantis. His 12% standing was a steep fall from his 23% support four months ago.

Trump continues to dominate the field, backed by 58%, up 10 points.

The survey of 309 Republican and Republican-leaning voters, taken Tuesday through Friday by landline and cell phone, has a margin of error of plus or minus 5.6 percentage points.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/exclusive-poll-nikki-haley-surges-121257621.html

A pox on all of them.

[Salviati]

1. I see they did not go with the alternative headline:

"Also-ran nearly tied for an increasingly irrelevant third place!" She's certainly got a lot of joementum*


*(of the lieberman variety, not Biden)

[yardwork]

9. Yes, the headline is ridiculous.

Haley is not surging. Nobody is. The Republican Party is stuck with the crazy narcissistic criminal they created. It looks like no "reasonable" candidate can win the Republican primary.

[50 Shades Of Blue]

2. Congrats, Nikki! Now it's your turn to peak early.

[ananda]

3. We're going to have a problem is Trump isn't the opponent.

Haley will be very popular to disaffected Republicans
and Independents.

[PortTack]

5. A woman and not quite white enough...nope

[ananda]

6. Hope you are right.

...

[yardwork]

8. I don't think so.

[Oneironaut]

11. Luckily, if that happened, the Republicans would probably implode.

MAGA is a cult. If Trump isn’t running as a Republican, they would probably either not vote or melt down in some way.

However, it’s absolutely going to be Trump as the nominee. He’s at like 60-something percent.

[wnylib]

20. She's anti abortion. That will not help her with women.

L

[Lonestarblue]

4. If Trump is convicted in either Georgia or the election case, he will be in jail. Even

die-hard MAGATs might hesitate to vote for him. Haley could gain quite a bit of support. She has the same right-wing politics as other Republicans, but she’s better at masking her views to sound more reasonable. For example, she said a nationwide abortion ban would be off the table if she is elected because Republicans, even with a Senate majority, would not have the 2/3rds vote to pass it. But all they would have to do is jettison the filibuster and vote it into law with a simple majority. Her tactics seem to be to offend as few as possible while disguising her true intentions, whatever they are, so Republican-leaning independents might support her.

[jcgoldie]

12. Thats what they are all counting on

It's why none of them will criticize Trump even though he's 40 points ahead. They want to swoop in and snatch the MAGA support after the "witch hunt" takes him down. If they attack him now, Trump will trash them and drag them through the mud and they'll never get the deplorables.

[Recycle_Guru]

7. But all of them combine are 20+ % behind Trump

[Skittles]

16. surges from 4% to 11%!!

OMFG

[mercuryblues]

10. A better headline would be

DeSantis poll numbers plunge.

[SCantiGOP]

13. I've been warning everyone

This was my Governor for 6 years. She is the icon of pragmatic unrestrained ambition. There’s a reason she was called Tricky Nikki.

(and yes, I do have spineless Lindsey, clueless Tim Scott and “you lie!” Wilson as my Congressional delegation. 🤢

[SergeStorms]

15. My condolences.

With a toxic soup of representation like that your mental stability must be rock solid. I would have fled in terror years ago.
"Endeavor to persevere", as Chief Dan George once said.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

14. She will be trumps vp

[Recycle_Guru]

17. no way

[Laura PourMeADrink]

21. Why not? trump will want to win

She'll be closest in popularity. Plus a female to win back females. So he will think.

[CitizenZero]

18. Nikki Haley

I don't like her much, but I find her to be much more palatable than Trump or Desantis. Trump is a fascist maniac clown. At least Haley does not strike me as entirely crazy. Hopefully Joe will beat whoever it is in 2024.

[DFW]

19. I hope this is where it stays

We made parody videos about DeSantis and Pence, but Haley is even more boring than they are. It seems like imaking a funny video about her would be a waste of time and energy.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

22. Yup. He never raked her thru coals. And

She has a restraint about her dissing him.

Mark my words .. she will be his VP. Sticking my neck out here