Why is Chris Christie the only anti-Trump Republican? The MAGA game for Chris Christie and the Democratic-leaning NJ GOP candidate Nikki Haley
A mailer that came from the campaign of Donald Trump stated that Chris Christie was the only anti-Trump Republican. The true anti-Trump Republican. And on the other side of the mailer was Nikki Haley, and it described Nikki Haley as a MAGA Republican. And now of course, that mailer came a little bit late. But what’s the psychology of the Chris Christie voter who’s been left at the altar, so to speak, right?
What are they going to do if they are Democratic-leaning independent or not? Do they see Haley as a bridge too far because in a lot of ways she’s a rather conventional Republican, or do they desire so much to take it to Trump? Do they desire so much to cause him pain at the ballot box that they’re willing to cross party lines and cast a vote for Haley? Basically, I think Haley’s the only game in town for those Christie voters, but as Christie himself said numerous times, you definitely are settling for something less than you would’ve wished. People get caught up in the excitement of the quadrennial event. If it really does come down to one or the other, Haley or Trump, that could be hard to resist because what we’ve seen play out in New Hampshire generally speaking during the Trump years is, it’s rocket fuel for the opposition.
Coaston: In September you wrote, “It’s exceedingly difficult to find a campaign here trying to build something that connects with citizens, that makes its presence known in communities.” Does that end up being the case in New Hampshire? What has the primary system changed over the last few decades? I know those are two questions, but just kind of wanted your take about that.
Scala: I would say, OK, since I wrote that of the campaigns out there, I think Haley was trying to make the most strides in building local organization. I did see a couple of Trump canvassers this week. Local organizations would start months earlier than they did this time around if Haley had been around.
“This race is effectively over,” he explained of the delegate math. If she is to win in New Hampshire, she will have a hard time. She has to win her home state of South Carolina at the end of February.
Even if she did not win New Hampshire, the deck was already stacked against her.
It seems like it’s going down party lines if it’s gonna be Biden or Trump. I don’t think anyone is happy with those choices. But this is what we got. Maybe not.
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“Do you want to be scared in November or not?” she asks in a call and response near the end of her stump speech. Do you want your kids to be proud in November? Let’s go ahead and do it.
That is among the $31 million in ads Haley and her allied super PACs have run in New Hampshire. According to an analysis by NPR, over $5 million in the previous week was spent. Trump and his allies have spent about half as much.
“And now we have a chance to reset the election for our entire country,” he says. “Nikki is the only one who can beat Donald Trump to move America forward.”
He thinks that if enough Republicans and independents have a sense of sanity, then they will stop looking at drama and pettiness. We’re tired of pettiness. That’s what Haley would do if she took away from us.
The New Hampshire Primary could be the last chance for a competitive race for the Republican nomination. Although it is only the second primary in a months-long nominating process, Nikki Haley is now the only major candidate left challenging former President Donald Trump.
A couple of days earlier at Grill 603 in Milford, N.H., the former South Carolina governor delivered her now-familiar pitch that she is the most electable Republican in the race.
It’s not clear which poll she was referring to, though she was talking about a hypothetical general election result and not the primary. There aren’t any public polls showing her ahead of Trump in New Hampshire. At multiple daily events in the lead up to the primary, Haley has tried to connect one on one with potential supporters, including 10-year-old Hadley Craig.
“I have told you from the very beginning and been very consistent: I said I wanted to be strong in Iowa. “I feel like we accomplished that,” Haley shouted when queried about her path to victory.
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The man said his full plan was to go back into the private sector after Mr. Trump leaves office. But he does not appear prepared for a total vanishing act.
“I like this media stuff,” he said in his interview with The New York Times, which was sandwiched among an appearance on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” a podcast hit and a Bloomberg interview in the span of 90 minutes. “I have my quiet criticisms on the media and I’ve gotten to see how they do it, what they do, how they work. And some things I’m impressed by. And some things I’m not. So I thought, oh, maybe I could add a little bit of color to what the media is currently doing and maybe enhance that game.”
“He took her from Triple-A to major-league three or four weeks ago when he endorsed,” said Mike Murphy, a Republican strategist who has run many primary campaigns through New Hampshire, including former Senator John McCain’s bid in 2000. “He’ll leave office a very successful, multiterm governor. You can have a lot of offers from New Hampshire. You know, they wanted him for Senate last time. They can always want him another time.”
“It’s like fantasy football,” said Thomas D. Rath, a former state attorney general and a longtime Republican strategist. I think he was realistic enough to say that the bigger game wasn’t going to work. So this is probably the next best thing.”