Koch network endorses Nikki Haley for president as it looks to stop Trump

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I hope the republicans pick anybody but Trump, but just try to imagine them picking a first generation Indian American woman for president. That sounds like a deafening amount of cognitive dissonance.

Haley was born Nimarata Nikki Randhawa

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikki_Haley

She was called slurs multiple times by Republican state-level politicians while she was governor of SC. And that was before they all started saying the quiet parts out loud.

One of her primary opponents is Vivek Ramaswamy.

Two first-generation Indians are contenders. That's wild to me

Except neither of them are really contenders, numbers wise.

Haley is getting the nomination because the number 1 is likely going to be in prison by the time the convention rolls around and the number 2 has made the people funding the election very uncomfortable through his lack of charisma.

I mean Trump's gonna be the nominee, at least at first, almost certainly. I just find it fascinating who Republicans think "the good ones" are

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