The Republican race is over – Nikki Haley stands out as the just one who doesn’t understand it but.
Donald J. Trump has actually figured it out. That’s why he was so gracious in his victory speech Monday night time. He needs to get the first season behind him.
Vivek Ramaswamy additionally will get it. That’s why he dropped Monday night time after his fourth-place exhibiting, endorsed Trump and even campaigned with him yesterday.
Besides Trump, there are solely two Republicans left within the struggle now – Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis.
The distinction between them is that DeSantis understands that he’s a useless man strolling, or ought to I say, useless man on a non-public aircraft.
The dropping candidates are all within the 5 levels of grief, as Rep. Matt Gaetz identified Monday night time. Nikki nonetheless appears caught in stage one — denial.
DeSantis? I’m not sure the place he stands on the grief-and-loss spectrum. But his marketing campaign has been in a downward spiral for a very long time now. He could also be all the best way to the fifth and last stage – acceptance.
There are, in spite of everything, worse issues than being the governor of the third most populous state within the Union. Even if you happen to do need to stay in Tallahassee.
It’s been clear for some time now that the DeSantis marketing campaign was assuming room temperature, notably when it got here out that one among DeSantis’ marketing campaign managers was telling insiders that the staffers’ solely objective now was to “make the patient comfortable.”
That’s what they are saying in a hospice. In this case, a political hospice.
Nikki had a small window of alternative in Iowa – if she’d completed second. That manner she might have branded herself the “comeback kid” or some such factor.
She might have demanded that DeSantis clear the sphere for her. She, or ought to I say her donors, gave it their greatest shot – by some estimates the Haley marketing campaign dropped $37 million in Iowa (to $35 million for DeSantis and $18 million for Trump).
But in the long run, she completed third, behind Trump and DeSantis. She carried one among Iowa’s 99 counties, by one vote. Trump took the opposite 98.
With a second-place end, she might have saved the gag going for another week. The Murdoch empire would have gladly propped her up, the GOP would have lavished much more hundreds of thousands on her. She might have despatched out much more hysterical texts and mailings to maintain annoying each registered Republican in New Hampshire.
But after underperforming in Iowa, Nikki stays in denial. How else do you clarify her determination to skip the final two scheduled GOP debates in New Hampshire this last week?
Since Trump wasn’t going to point out up, it could have come all the way down to her versus DeSantis – once more. So she brushed the Florida governor apart, sneering that from right here on out, she’ll solely debate Trump or Biden. So there!
If Nikki had completed second, behind Trump, she might have gotten away with this. As it’s, she’s refusing to debate the man who trimmed her in Iowa. It seems to be like a match of pique.
State-run media retains speaking concerning the alleged flintiness of Granite State voters, and the way they wish to be opposite. That’s true – up to a degree. Remember, New Hampshire was the primary state Trump carried in his preliminary marketing campaign in 2016.
I’m unsure endorsements imply a lot anymore (until it’s Trump). But even in unbiased New Hampshire, I’m considering Nikki’s loudest nationwide supporters give off a slight RINO odor that could be an enormous turn-off for the outdated Live Free or Die Republican crowd.
Chris Sununu. Larry Hogan. Bill Kristol.
Where’s Charlie Baker? Shouldn’t he be lurking across the Pheasant Lane Mall in Nashua this weekend, sternly lecturing the “folks” to vote for Nikki?
I do know, Don Bolduc, the conservative former US Senate candidate, has accomplished a radio spot for her. But then, he had a falling out with Trump after his loss to Maggie Hassan in 2022. But he should be fairly rattling bitter to throw in with Nikki Haley.
After my listeners heard Bolduc’s endorsement, they started texting me:
“What the hell’s wrong with Bolduc?”
Maybe Nikki’s obtained one thing up her sleeve, secret weapons for the ultimate weekend.
Does anybody have the pre-election schedules for Sens. Mitch McConnell and Mitt Romney? Are Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger warming up within the bullpen for Nikki?
Chris Christie has been a horrible candidate currently, however he has confirmed himself to be an astute critic of his fellow additionally rans, first Marco Rubio in 2016 and now Nikki Haley.
As Krispy Crème Christie mentioned on the recent mic final week earlier than he withdrew from the marketing campaign:
“She’s going to get smoked, and you and I both know it. She’s not up to it.”
So has she been operating for vp, has that been her actual play right here? You know George Bush and Ronald Reagan actually went at one different within the 1980 primaries. Bush even known as Reagan’s tax-cutting blueprint “voodoo economics.”
But they kissed and made up.
But Nikki and Trump? Until Monday night time, he had been calling her “Birdbrain.” But I don’t assume he loathed her the best way he dislikes, say, Mike Pence, and even Ron “DeSanctimonious,” who Trump has mentioned would now be working in a “pizza parlor” if he hadn’t endorsed Ron for governor in 2018.
Maybe Trump would have turned the opposite cheek and embraced a Trump-Birdbrain ticket. But though Trump trusts his personal political instincts above these of anybody else, a few of the folks he’s closest to have warned him to not even take into consideration extending the olive department.
Donald Trump Jr., for one. And Tucker Carlson mentioned he would really marketing campaign towards Trump if he put Birdbrain on the ticket.
State-run media will attempt to prop Nikki up throughout this last week. Think headlines like “Haley Surges in Latest Poll,” and “Independents Breaking for Haley.”
As for me, for as soon as I are likely to agree with Chris Christie.
She’s gonna get smoked.
Source: www.bostonherald.com”