Trump’s ‘achilles heel’? Haley’s refusal to drop out infuriates ex-president

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Trump’s ‘achilles heel’? Haley’s refusal to drop out infuriates ex-president
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If I had to wager, her plan may be to stay in to the end despite losing every primary, just in case something goes south for Trump legally. Trouble is, he's going to savage her politically and many of his supporters will never vote for her

Trouble is, he’s going to savage her politically and many of his supporters will never vote for her

Sure. On the other hand...

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/article284562880.html

“The worst kept secret in politics is how badly the Democrats want to run against Donald Trump,” Haley said. “A Trump nomination is a Biden win and a Kamala Harris presidency … I defeat Biden handily.”

Yeah this is my understanding.

I don't really understand it (despite everyone explaining it n times) but if the GOP want to win all they need to do is field a young candidate.

So it all comes down to “do Republicans want to win badly enough that they can suppress their racism and misogyny and vote for a woman of color”. Republicans like winning, but NEVER bet against racism and misogyny with that crew.

Also, a large fraction of the base WILL vote for Trump, and only Trump, whether he’s on the ballot or not, which hurts Haley. And there’s no evidence that the R’s have won over a single new voter since 2020, when they lost.

This all turns on how badly Biden does with HIS base, and that is currently pretty worrying. Democratic voters like unproductive petulance at least as much as Republican voters like racism and misogyny.

Biden definitely hasn't been unproductive. He just hasn't been loud enough about his accomplishments.

Biden's exceeded my expectations... it's just no one knows him as anything other than "The guy who sniffs hair"

I think she's wrong though. If she were to win, Trump would run an an independent and split the wingnut vote.

Hell, it's likely she'll pull votes from the Left who just wanna see a woman president, Identity Politics isn't just a word ya know

Shes got the Koch billion dollar donation network behind her. I think her plan is to make as much of their money as possible, which they are glad to give to have a possible president directly in their pocket.

So what you are saying is we have found the only non trump anti genocide candidate?

And it pisses him off more?

I’m off to donate to her campaign

No offense but I don’t trust aljazeera on anything involving Israel, their other reporting tends to be fairly good though.

Literally 2 seconds of Googling- https://iowacapitaldispatch.com/2023/10/20/nikki-haley-says-she-would-support-israel-strengthen-u-s-military-as-president/

Let me guess, you don't trust an Iowa newspaper to accurately report on what Nikki Haley said while she was campaigning in Iowa.

Nicely cited. Didn't even need the snarky jab chaser lol.

He's not very wrong about Al Jazeera's editorial bent.

The Al Jazeera article had direct quotes from Haley. Unless your argument is that Al Jazeera fabricates such quotes, and I don't think there is any evidence they do that, the criticism was wrong.

Nope, I agree that AJ article is well written and on point.

My feeling about AJ is they seem to have a background editorial agenda in general.

And that's plenty ok, IMO. Just good to keep in mind.

https://kbin.social/m/privacy@lemmy.ml/t/793847/-/comment/4828421

Thank you for a source that wasn’t aljazeera.

Come on squid, me, you, and pugjesus all have slightly different feelings but we pretty much agree on a lot.

Why make it personal?

I was polite and only asked for a source that was too close to the subject and would undoubtedly have a large amount of bias on this subject .

I know for a fact that you are better than this.

Because acting like the source that gives direct quotes is too biased to trust those quotes is silly. Especially when you're talking about Al Jazeera, not Newsmax.

I don’t trust their “quotes” not to be false and I do not feel like taking the time to cross verify with other trusted sources.

Once again, aljazeera is fine for things not relating to Israel, I just don’t trust them on this subject.