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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI see Niki Haley is on Bloomberg making her rounds. She would be the most forminable challenger
in a general election, and while her pardon trump, and would vote for trump if he was their nominee, should be a disqualifier, she will get the attention of independents a general election. The media is already painting her as a moderate.
The republican all or nothing primary setup, along with so many candidates, will make it difficult for her to secure the republican nomination, given that at least 30% of their base are full MAGAs, who I doubt will support her.
It will be interesting what the polls say in the next week.
Thrill
(19,342 posts)VP
bullimiami
(14,075 posts)no worries. not republican primary material these days.
pwb
(12,669 posts)Women lost freedoms and Haley is good with that? No.
spanone
(141,615 posts)may she rot in hall
Beachnutt
(8,910 posts)also
DemocratSinceBirth
(101,852 posts)DemocratSinceBirth
(101,852 posts)The MAGA G.O.P. isn't going back.
NoMoreRepugs
(12,076 posts)getagrip_already
(17,802 posts)Especially one who could be tied to recently immigrated family.
Sorry, it's just not who they are.
nevergiveup
(4,815 posts)they will not see her as "a woman of color". The fact she says she will pardon Trump also makes her all the more Maga friendly.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)HRC's run showed us that gender still matters, to some to many people in virtually every voter demographic.
The election after the "year of the woman" there was a distinct pattern of some "Progressives" enthusiastically hoping to primary women Democrats (some just elected!) to replace them with minority males. In GA some black men who'd voted for Obama preferred a very hostile! white male Republican to a black woman who promised to represent them. On and on, examples every election.
That's just for one thing, there are others, but it's a BIG, basic one she can't trick people into missing. And in this era, white Christian male nationalism is on the rise on the right.
By the by, Christian music star Natalie Grant singing the national anthem. Sweet.
