Where Nikki Haley went wrong.

[lees1975]

https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2024/03/where-nikki-haley-went-wrong.html

Of all of the potential GOP nominees, Haley had the best shot at winning the nomination, next to Trump, whose former Presidency is his name and face recognition. Out of the traditional kind of Republican base that Mitt Romney and George W. Bush built their base, and with which they won, Haley was the best candidate to fit in with the ideology and bring some of her own perspective into the mix without losing voters. The problem is that base is now fragmented, scattered and no longer unified. Some of it has given into the MAGA philosophy out of party loyalty. The rest of it might have had a candidate around which to rally if Haley had given them something at the outset of the campaign, instead of joining in the chorus of sycophants who doomed their chances by trying to be Trump clones.

But she didn't make the turn into the sort-of anti-MAGA, never Trumper candidate until too late in the campaign. And that made her look less savvy and much less experienced than she needed in order to attract the kind of voter to the GOP that she needed to have a chance. There are moderates who are somewhat reluctant to support Biden this time around because of his age, voters at which she might have had a shot at getting, had she started by pointing out how far away from traditional Republican and Christian values the MAGA cult really has gone. But she joined the sycophants. Her line that he was a good President then, just not so good for now. She was weak and demonstrated a fear of his political power within the GOP. And ultimately, that was what sunk her boat.

She was also, frankly, just too Republican to attract the kind of voter who would have stuck through the campaign and voted for her instead of Biden. The Dobbs decision has been, and will be, a huge turnout machine and vote getter for all Democrats in 2024, especially the President. She either can't or by conviction won't go there, and that's what would have taken her out of the competition against Biden.

[NoRethugFriends]

1. Huh? She's a dumb right wing maniac

Just maybe a little bit less dangerous than Trump

[Diamond_Dog]

2. Where Haley went wrong ...

Her name is not Donald Trump.

[Shermann]

3. She'd put herself in a position to be lucky

She needed some luck and SCOTUS rolled snake eyes for her. So, she's on the short stack at this point (sorry for the mixed gambling metaphors).

[Aristus]

4. Personally, I think she went wrong when she thought to herself:

"Hey! I'm a woman of color in the United States of America! I'm going to join the Republican Party, because I'm told theirs is the party of inclusion!"