Ronna McDaniel Urging Nikki Haley to Drop Out Sparks Fury
By: Benjamin Lynch (Newsweek)
So, Donald Trump has become the political establishment. And the Republican grifters hanging onto Trump's coattails are trying to protect their gravy train. Trump is becoming Jeb Bush, after all.
Like it or not, Nikki Haley still has a good chance of winning the nomination. New Hampshire demonstrated that Haley can motivate independent voters to come out for the Republican primaries. Haley has broader appeal across the entire electorate and Republican establishment partisanship may not be able to stop Haley. And Haley could capture the minority voters that Trump has brought into the Republican Party. Nikki Haley is in a much stronger position than the Trump grifters and the unbiased liberal press would have us believe. Both the Trump and Biden camps are afraid of Nikki Haley.
What scares the Trump crowd is that Nikki Haley will win enough delegates to have serious input on the Republican platform. Trump won't do anything with the platform; that's not Trump's strong suit. And the Trump grifters are afraid that a real party platform could tie their hands. Nikki Haley is more of a policy wonk and could force the Republican Party to adopt a real policy platform. Republicans have been twisting themselves into pretzels to avoid a platform fight since George Bush's War on Terror. But Biden has screwed up the US position on the world stage so badly that Republicans really can't afford to kick that can any longer. The country can't afford to spend more money on a War on Terror that Biden has totally screwed up. There just ain't a coalition of the willing any longer.
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The chair of the Republican National Committee earned backlash online after she called on presidential candidate Nikki Haley to drop out of the race.
Ronna McDaniel said the former South Carolina governor should pull out in a conversation with Fox News, after Haley was confirmed to have finished in second place in the New Hampshire primary behind favorite Donald Trump.
"I'm looking at the map and the path going forward and I don't see it for Nikki Haley," she said. "I think she has run a great campaign, but I do think there is a message that is coming out from the voters which is very clear 'we need to unite around our eventual nominee' which is going to be Donald Trump 'and we need to make sure we beat Joe Biden.'"
"It is 10 months [until] the November election and we can't wait any longer to put our foot on the gas to beat the worst president...We need to do everything we can to unite and defeat him."
The comments caused concern among some on social media, including former House Republican aide and political strategist Rina Shah.
Shah, a self-professed member of the "Never Trump" cohort of Republicans opposed to the 45th president, said McDaniel should be "ashamed" of her comments.
"As the head of the GOP who, she has said is only responsible for being a turnout operation, she ought to be ashamed of herself for engaging in election interference," Shah wrote on X.
Commentator and editor-in-chief of independent news network Meidas Touch, Ron Filipkowski, said: "This is not the job of an RNC Chair. The Party Chair is supposed to stay neutral. This party has been corrupted to its core. It is no longer a functioning political party. It is an autocratic personality cult."
Newsweek approached members of Trump's and Haley's teams, along with McDaniel's office, for comment via email.
Trump has also called on Haley to drop out, apparently taking issue with some of the positivity coming out of her campaign.
"Could somebody please explain to Nikki Haley that she lost - and lost really badly," Trump wrote on his Truth Social media platform. She also lost Iowa, BIG, last week. They were, as certain Non-Fake Media says, 'CRUSHING DEFEATS.'"
At the time of writing, Haley was reported to have garnered around 43.3 percent of the votes, compared to Trump on over 54 percent. But Haley and her team insisted the results are not a death knell for her campaign, despite the obvious electoral mountain she has to climb.
New Hampshire was considered to be more in Haley's favor than her third place finish in Iowa, where she ended up more than 30 points behind Trump.
Voters in the Granite State include independents and Haley's campaign hoped their presence would help her derail the apparent procession to the nomination by the Trump camp. She was closer to Trump in New Hampshire, but a loss of over 10 points remains a significant victory for the former president.
"This race is far from over," Haley insisted. "There are dozens of states left to go, and the next one is my sweet state of South Carolina."
Trump is still favorite in South Carolina and Senator Tim Scott has endorsed him over Haley.
"It is time for the Republican party to coalesce around our nominee and the next president of United States, Donald Trump," he told Trump's supporters at his victory speech on January 23.
Mary Frances Berry, the Geraldine R. Segal professor of American Social Thought at the University of Pennsylvania, told Newsweek before the New Hampshire primary that "a close second would suffice to keep a Haley candidacy viable." Berry added that the primaries looked more favorable to Trump after that.
Some have continued to back Haley, including New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu. Sununu told Fox he believes Haley has the best chance of beating President Joe Biden, the assumed Democratic Party nominee, in a November election.
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So, Trump has become Jeb Bush running on a dynastic appeal. And Trump doesn't attract the brightest and best grifters to give him adequate CYA. Rudy Giuliani was the best the Donald could find? Really?
Joe's likely to drop out shortly, then all hell will break loose. I think she should stay in it until the last minute.
I hope so, would be nice if someone other than him were to get the nomination. But I question how successful the DNC could be in the general in that case as the deadline for a good half the states to get on the ballot have already passed. Would they rally behind Dean Phillips? I have a hard time seeing them go all in to support Marianne Willamson.
What I think Haley should start to do is talk about who Trump might be able to get into his cabinet and his administration should he take the White House. That should put some fear into people when they look at who might be willing to work under him and those who will not. But enough with attacking Trump, she also needs to put more emphasis on what her policies are and how they can help the American people. A lot of people are just turned off by the attack politics.
Haley is loved by Democrats and left leaning independents. They are the ones backing her financially and at the voting booth so far.
She has turned Establishment all the way.
First thing she will do (if elected) is make sure all of the Democrat sins of the last eight years and counting vanish. Poof, all gone, forgive and forget. Back to the status quo.
They will demonize still demonize her in return- they are Democrats after all. Nothing will ever change that.
Unless you want 4 more years of Brandon the career criminal traitor and Democrats flushing this country down the toilet- I suggest getting on board with whomever the Republican nominee is. Even if it is Trump.
Sucks having a two party system. Especially when the Establishment continuously rolls out massive losers for President.
I guarantee the Democrats/leftists will hold their noses and vote for Brandon (assuming he makes it to election day) no matter what. 2016 taught them what it means to stay home. Conservatives/Republicans still need to learn that lesson it seems. 2020, 2022, and 2023 obviously wasn't enough.
OK, well according to current polling, if you want to make sure to beat Joe Biden in November, Nikki Haley is the best candidate to achieve that.
Haley fares best against Biden as Republican contenders hold national leads