Should Nikki Haley soldier on after all?
Nikki Haley, the last challenger to Donald Trump for the Republican presidential nomination still standing, despite a string of defeats by the former president, has vowed to continue her campaign at least through the Super Tuesday primaries, if not longer.
Is this a matter of politics in vain, or should she soldier on?
That's our Question of the Week for readers.
Haley isn't just losing most of her contests in primaries and caucuses to the former president; she's lost them all.
After losing her home-state primary in South Carolina, one of her main campaign funders, a political network controlled by the Koch brothers, announced that it's suspending its support for her.
But Haley continues to sound feisty and even optimistic as she campaigns around the country.
Is having two candidates in the GOP contests a good thing for the party and for the nation's politics in general, or is Haley's campaign a waste of time?
Even though she lost her home state by a 60-40 margin, some observers have noted that since Trump is essentially running as an incumbent, that this result isn't as lopsided as
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it seems. When a challenger to incumbent George H.W. Bush, columnist Pat Buchanan, took 30% of the New Hampshire vote in a primary, it was considered a shockingly high number. Is her 40% popularity the same thing?
Or is Haley at this point not really running in the 2024 election at all, but keeping her name out there for the 2028 Republican nomination?
If, absent some astounding turnaround in the GOP electorate, Trump goes on to his seemingly inevitable nomination, will Haley then endorse him? If so, will it be enthusiastically, or just out general support for the Republican nominee, whomever it may be?
Haley served Trump as ambassador to the United Nations when he was president. After all their bad blood in this primary fight — Haley says that both Trump and Joe Biden are too old to serve as president, and Trump rarely misses an opportunity to belittle her — would there still be room for Nikki Haley in a second Trump White House?
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