Nikki Haley beats Donald Trump in Washington DC for first primary victory; first woman ever to win a GOP primary for president

[wing2000]

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[DaisyDay]

Well he did mumble and he called Laken Riley...Lincoln Riley.

Sure, that happened.

No, almost nothing he said passed fact checks.

Yeah, except for all the things that did.

 

[Arcangl86]

Well he did mumble and he called Laken Riley...Lincoln Riley.

Oh no! Somebody with a speech impairment mispronounced a name he didn't practice how to say!

No, almost nothing he said passed fact checks.

Can you give an example of that?

 

[Yeshua HaDerekh]

Oh no! Somebody with a speech impairment mispronounced a name he didn't practice how to say!

Can you give an example of that?

His impairment is he is senile. An example? His whole speech! Here, I will give you one:“The Alabama Supreme Court shut down IVF treatments across the state.” FALSE. No, Alabama did not shut down IVF treatments across the state. The Alabama Supreme Court decided that frozen embryos can be considered children under state law. The ruling did not make IVF treatments illegal in the state

 

[Yeshua HaDerekh]

Sure, that happened.

Yeah, except for all the things that did.

It did happen. Yeah, except all the things that didn't...

 

[essentialsaltes]

His impairment is he is senile. An example? His whole speech! Here, I will give you one:“The Alabama Supreme Court shut down IVF treatments across the state.” FALSE. No, Alabama did not shut down IVF treatments across the state.

That's not senility. That's a simplification to make the Republicans look bad on a timely political issue.

 

[Yeshua HaDerekh]

That's not senility. That's a simplification to make the Republicans look bad on a timely political issue.

It only made Biden look bad because it wasn't true.

 

[essentialsaltes]

Despite having dropped out, Haley's still getting in the teens in state GOP primaries.

In Kansas’ primary on March 19, for instance, Trump secured 75 percent of the vote—impressive if he were facing active competition, but troubling given the competition had all withdrawn. Haley got 16 percent of the vote in Kansas, while 5 percent voted for “none of the names shown.”

In Arizona’s primary on the same day, Trump won 79 percent of the vote, while Haley won 18 percent. The former president also failed to crack 80 percent of the vote in Ohio.

 

[essentialsaltes]

Despite having dropped out, Haley's still getting in the teens in state GOP primaries.

Nearly 1 in 5 GOP primary voters across four contests Tuesday voted for an option other than the presumptive nominee. That’s about the same proportion that voted against him on the last big primary day, March 19

While President Biden continues to cede votes as well — largely protests over his Gaza war policy, reflected in choices like “uncommitted” — Trump is ceding more.

Since Nikki Haley dropped out of the campaign after Super Tuesday on March 5, an average of 17 percent of those voting in GOP contests have voted against Trump, compared to 11 percent against Biden.

Since Super Tuesday, closed primaries in Florida, Kansas, Connecticut and New York have yielded an average of 21 percent of voters voting against Trump — again, all of them registered Republicans. So despite independents not being allowed to participate, the protest vote has remained consistent.

 

[essentialsaltes]

Despite having dropped out, Haley's still getting in the teens in state GOP primaries.

In Kansas’ primary on March 19, for instance,Haley got 16 percent of the vote in Kansas

In Arizona’s primary on the same day, Haley won 18 percent.

Haley won almost 17% of Pennsylvania's primary vote Tuesday, or 1 in 6 votes, to Trump's 83%, despite not campaigning for president since she ended her bid in early March.

 

[essentialsaltes]

Haley won almost 17% of Pennsylvania's primary vote Tuesday, or 1 in 6 votes, to Trump's 83%, despite not campaigning for president since she ended her bid in early March.

Nikki Haley won almost 22% of Indiana's primary vote Tuesday, more than 1 in 5 votes, despite not campaigning for president since she ended her bid in early March.

Was it a passing 'Stormy' effect, or something more significant?

 

[wing2000]

Nikki Haley won almost 22% of Indiana's primary vote Tuesday, more than 1 in 5 votes, despite not campaigning for president since she ended her bid in early March.

Was it a passing 'Stormy' effect, or something more significant?

Two months after she quit.

Haley’s support was largest in Indiana’s urban and suburban counties. She won 35% of the vote in Indianapolis’s Marion County and more than one-third of the vote in suburban Hamilton County. As in other states, she did best in the most Democratic areas of the state.

Nikki Haley won 20% of votes in Indiana Republican presidential primary

It's been two months since Nikki Haley dropped out of the Republican race, but the former U.N. ambassador and South Carolina governor is ringing up significant support in state primaries

abcnews.go.com

 

[wing2000]

Nikki Haley then: (just a couple of months ago):

• “He’s totally unhinged.”
• “If you are going to hit our military, you are not qualified to be president, period.”
• “If you mock the service of a combat veteran, you don’t deserve a driver’s license, let alone being president of the United States.”
• “Anybody that can’t call out a dictator, that’s a problem . . . [Putin’s] emboldened by Trump because Trump is not willing to stand up for our allies.”
• “Trump just sided with a thug who kills his political opponents. He just sided with a man who goes and arrests American journalists and holds them hostage. He sided with him over the allies who stood with us at 9/11.”
• “He said that he would stand with Putin and encourage him to invade our allies . . . Trump would side with a dictator who kills his political opponents . . . Trump is going to side with a madman who’s made no bones about the fact he wants to destroy America.”
• “This is a man that put us $8 trillion in debt . . . This is a man who praised China’s president Xi a dozen times after China gave us COVID. This is a man who now wants to go and put 10 percent tariffs across the board, raising taxes on every single American.”
• “He’s just trying to control as much as he can control, but we don’t want a king in America.”
• “Every bit of it is disgusting. To sit there and mock my husband for not being with me on the campaign trail because he is deployed and serving our country . . . The reality is, the closest [Trump] has come to harm’s way is a golf ball hitting him on a golf cart.”
• “Trump is the most disliked politician in America. We cannot win a general election that way.”
• “Every single thing that Donald Trump has said or put on TV has been a lie.”

Nikki Haley this week (May 22):
“I will be voting for Trump. Having said that, I stand by what I said in my suspension speech: Trump would be smart to reach out to the millions of people who voted for me and continue to support me. And not assume that they’re just gonna be with him. And I genuinely hope he does that.”

Another Republican capitulates to the dark side. [Given Haley's history, I guess this should not be surprising....}

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