"Donald Trump put himself on the cusp of clinching the Republican presidential nomination after New Hampshire voters handed him a decisive victory in Tuesday’s primary," the American press writes. The results in New Hampshire are as follows: Trump won 53% of the vote, Haley — 46%.
Trump has calmly done away with his only remaining rival, former US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley. And Florida Governor Ron De Sanctis quit the race on the eve of the New Hampshire primary, which has never even been an intrigue itself. Preliminary polls gave De Santis only 6% of the vote, so he wisely hastened to declare that he was ending his campaign and giving support to Trump. This might have been brought about by his prospects for becoming Trump’s vice president if he wins. And Trump himself, who used to publicly humiliate Desantis, now spoke nicely about him, expressing gratitude for his support.
Thus, there are two people left in the Republican primary elections: former President Trump and his former UN ambassador Nikki Haley.
Hayley, 52, is an extremely ambitious person, and she pledged to fight on, despite the "disappointing second-place finish," Bloomberg reports. She is convinced of being able to get ahead of Trump and become GOP’s official presidential candidate. Where does this conviction come from?
Democrats have been clearly failing with Biden, whose cognitive inability to cope with serious public duties is obvious to everyone, including his fellow party members. In this regard, many political observers have turned their attention to Nikki Haley, whose extreme ambition is coupled with the fact that her views almost completely comply with the ultra-liberal mainstream. Besides, Haley calls attention in the context of Trump's legal troubles, as she surely hopes that Trump will be brought down by the court, making her an automatic first candidate for the Republican nomination.
American conservatives themselves suggest that the Democrats would benefit greatly from Haley instead of Trump. She is the best of a bad bunch to Democrats and poses no danger to the "deep state," unlike Trump, who has not abandoned his idea of "draining the Washington swamp." " It's far simpler for Democrats to replace Joe Biden by letting him lose in November. <...> There is already a candidate, already running, who could replace Biden and continue many of his policies, perhaps not as vigorously, but certainly appealing enough to the left and the donor class that they are all in for her candidacy. I speak of Nikki Haley, ostensibly running as a Republican," the American Thinker magazine’s Brian C. Joondeph writes. Take heed of the key word "ostensibly".
Haley is kind of mimicking the Republicans. And her only goal is to get to the top of power at any cost, using any leverage, any support or any intrigue. Democrats can be sure that Haley is almost “their kind of guy”. Unlike most Republicans, she is not opposed to immigration, saying "We don’t need to talk about them as criminals. They’re not. They're families that want a better life." She has been backing the BLM movement that emerged in 2020 when a black criminal died while being detained by police officers. Which is totally out of keeping with what most Republican Party members think. As for Ukraine, a Pew poll suggests, about half of Republicans now brand US aid to Ukraine as excessive. Compare: in the Democratic camp the figure is 16 percent. And Haley's stance is akin to that of most Democrats, as she says: "This is a war about freedom, and it's a war we have to win."
Moreover, she enjoys support of the Democrats’ influential sponsors. Co-founder of the famous LinkedIn network Reed Hoffman, for example, has donated $250 thousand to Nikki Haley. The question is, why would the richest liberal donor support a Republican candidate? Hoffman endorses Haley's "platform for America."
And Trump, by the way, says that "America is the last thing she is interested in." He said this when asked whether Haley could count on becoming his vice president. That is, the ex-president also has a pretty clear sense of the fact that Haley has defected to the liberal establishment and is only pretending to play on the Republican field.
Forbes magazine writes that Hoffman is not the only monetary donor to the Democratic Party supporting Haley. JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon urged business leaders and liberal democrats to support Haley as "a choice on the Republican side that might be better than Trump." New Hampshire billionaire Frank Laukin, who has donated to both the Republicans and Democrats over the years, also recently supported Haley and co-founded a new campaign committee "designed to persuade independent supporters to back her."
A huge bonus for Haley's campaign was $70 million raised by Charles Koch’s Americans for Prosperity campaign committee, including $25 million from the billionaire himself. For reference: Charles Koch is the one fiercely agitating for open borders, that is, for mass immigration to the United States. So, Haley's political credo is crystal-clear. She is no stranger to Trump's political opponents, both obvious Democratic adherents and behind-the-scenes "kingmakers" of America.
The next Republican primary is due in Nevada on February 8. However, for Trump and Haley the next frontier will be the February 24 round in South Carolina, Nikki Haley's home state. She also was its governor before serving at the UN. Some experts believe this will not help her, and Trump comes up victorious again. However, Haley's tenacity, multiplied by the Democrats' desire to bring Trump down, will not stop her even in case of a modest result in South Carolina. And both will be waiting for the so-called "super Tuesday" on March 5, when preliminary party elections will be held in 15 states at once.
And so far, despite the disastrous primary results, Haley is optimistic, as she must be counting heavily on the "deep state" which brought Biden to power four years ago, even though he lost the 2020 race, as Trump's supporters claim.
