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What's Haley's next move when she withdraws?

Does she endorse Trump?

Does she not endorse any candidate?

I don't see a 3rd party candidacy. She seems to have been in it as much for the GOP as she was for the country.

I expect her to endorse Trump, but reluctantly, only as the only real alternative to Biden. I do not see her standing behind him on a podium like Tim Scott did. Trump won't give her anything but a hard time. She'll shift to planning for 2028 and a run then, so she won't want to offend and turn-off all the current Trump supporters, which, I think has hurt her campaign. Had she gone after Trump more, she might have done better, but she also would be risking losing those votes in the next cycle.

Personally, I'd have more respect for her if she just withdrew and didn't endorse anyone. But I don't see that happening, just for political and future planning reasons.

That subject would be funnier if you replaced Haley with Michelle.***

She's trying to change the Republican Party. She's not pulling out soon.

Re: She's trying to change the Republican Party. She's not pulling out soon.

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Democrat party is her best future, but this wont be easy switch for her

Mar 5, 2024, 11:49 AM

Nikki is in a tricky place moving forward.

Her value as a member of the board of directors at a company that derives a big hunk of its money via government contracts has fallen considerably; that career option may disappear altogether if she chooses to walk away from the Republican (aka Trump) party.

Does she turn to the Democrat party and attempt to position herself as a moderate Democrat? Her interests in removing the anonymity shield for people that want to exercise their 1st Amendment rights is consistent with today’s Democrat party. Her repeated references to the value of diversity (vote for women) is consistent with the long embraced Democrat political strategy of identity politics. Her advocacy for USA involvement in every foreign war that pops up is also consistent with today’s ‘moderate’ Democrat party of recent years.

On the other side of the coin, her somewhat amorphous position on abortion (I agree with Nikki that states would be stupid to make abortion illegal, and that each individual state has the Constitutional right to make its decision regarding abortion legality) would not comport with a fundamental pillar of the Democrat party. Neither would her position on 2nd Amendment rights.
(*). For Nikki to make the outright switch to the Democrat party, she’d have to prove that she would be ‘morally flexible’ in order to restart her political career as a Democrat.

(?). Would she make this switch (which entails her abandonment of 2nd Amendment -&- States rights re abortion policy)? I think that she’d make the change.

Electability: Given the Animal House / Delta Fraternity-esque roster of potential candidates in the Democrat party, Nikki would represent a huge upgrade. She possesses two valuable identity politics attributes; to my understanding there were no big embarrassments during her time as SC governor; and the Big Money donors love her. I believe that Nikki would be a very formidable candidate in the next Democrat primary … but she absolutely MUST disavow her currently stated positions on 2nd Amendment & Abortions.

Non-political option: If she chooses to be politically adrift, then what will she do for a living? Utilize her Clemson education to become a corporate accountant? Accountancy is, of course, a good profession that pays a solid middle class wage. I just don’t see her going that direction.

PREDICTION: Nikki drops out after Super Tuesday (unless big Democrat donors like Reid Hoffman and Zuckerberg decide to fund her campaign a little longer), and she doesn’t endorse Trump immediately. Depending upon how her discussions with Hoffman, Zuckerberg, etc. go, she will either endorse Trump (if Hoffman Zuck say ‘no mas’) -or- remain quiet (if Hoffman, Zuck, etc agree to cough up some more money) -or- say ‘never Trump’ if Hoffman, Zuck, etc give her the ‘All In with Nikki’ vote.

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