Super Tuesday: Where are we heading? Where is she? What is she thinking? What happened to her when Trump was on the U.S. Senate floor?
The next contest is Nevada (Feb. 8), where she isn’t even on the party caucus ballot. That means Trump is going to gobble up the delegates — and attention — there. Haley is on a state ballot that doesn’t award delegates, while Trump isn’t on that one.
Haley’s campaign laid out a plan on Tuesday that would have her competing in a wide range of states, including the 16 states that vote on March 5, known as Super Tuesday.
What a lovely illusion. It just broke. The results on Tuesday night, when Trump followed his commanding victory in the Iowa caucuses with a compelling one in the New Hampshire primary, leave Haley with no plausible path to the Republican nomination, not unless something extraordinary happens. The scenario in which she was supposed to topple Trump can now be seen for what it always was: the latest of many fictions in which those of us who rightly fear American democracy’s ability to survive Trump sought consolation.
“You’ve all heard the chatter among the political class,” Haley said. “They’re falling all over themselves saying this race is over. Well, I have news for all of them: … This race is far from over. There are dozens of states left to go.”
In an email to her supporters Tuesday night, Haley stated that she wasn’t leaving and was looking forward to her home state’s primary in February.
The final major republican candidate standing in Trump’s way after other candidates dropped out was Haley, a former UN Ambassador, who had an aggressive challenge from him.
New Hampshire seemed to be uniquely favorable territory for her. Independent voters, known as “undeclared” in the state, could participate in the Republican primary, giving her a boost. Haley and her allied super PACs spent more than $31 million on television ads in the small state, doubling pro-Trump spending. She also had the endorsement of the state’s popular Republican governor, Chris Sununu, who campaigned for her tirelessly.
MANCHESTER, N.H. — Former President Donald Trump has won the New Hampshire primary, according to The Associated Press, a victory that puts him on a clear path to securing the Republican nomination.
Biden himself won as a write-in candidate in the Democratic primary (that didn’t count) Tuesday night over Rep. Dean Phillips, D-Minn., who found, like another Democrat, there just weren’t enough Deaniacs in New Hampshire.
“Tonight’s results confirm Donald Trump has all but locked up the GOP nomination, and the election denying, anti-freedom MAGA movement has completed its takeover of the Republican Party,” Biden’s campaign manager Julie Chavez Rodriguez said in a statement.
Trump has been running against Biden since he got into the race in November 2022. Through this primary, in which he has maintained massive leads, he’s called for the party to unify around him — and most are falling in line.
The idea that Haley is the candidate who has the best chance of beating President Biden is a central part of her campaign. There is some evidence that she would be a better general- election candidate than Trump.
John Cornyn, a Texas Senator who has been against Trump since the former president left the White House, endorsed him Tuesday night.
What’s more, Trump and his allies are vowing to go after Haley even harder than they already have — and Trump has already promoted a “birther” conspiracy theory against her, falsely accusing her of being ineligible to be president.
Haley will not be on the ballot for the caucus in Nevada on Feb. 8 because she is not on that ballot. Does she stay in for a month to South Carolina? Will she have the money?
She argued that she has increased in her support and that there are lots of other states still to vote. The road ahead isn’t well paved for her.
What if Mueller’s investigation or Trump’s second impeachment would stop a candidate in the Granite State, and when Kerry would lose his campaign
We told ourselves that Robert Mueller’s investigation or Trump’s first impeachment or his second impeachment would stop him. He was going to lose his political career when the congressional committee investigated the storming of the U.S. Capitol. We told ourselves that he couldn’t survive four indictments encompassing 91 felony counts. We told ourselves that his lies were too outrageous, and that his outbursts were becoming too vicious.
I kept hearing that, kept reading that, as various political observers turned a myth into a mantra, persuading themselves of her potency and Donald Trump’s vulnerability not only in the Granite State but also beyond it. They believed that Trump’s grip on the Republican Party might be loosened. They wanted to be sure that he wouldn’t return to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
Asa Hutchinson, a former candidate for the Republican nomination who dropped out after Iowa, said during NPR live coverage that it’s an “uphill climb.”
If Haley does decide to suspend her campaign by Feb. 17, it would be the earliest any candidate — who wasn’t an incumbent president — in the last 40 years would have wrapped up the nomination by virtue of their top opponent exiting.
John Kerry wrapped up the 2004 Democratic presidential nomination on Feb. 18 when then-Vermont Gov. Howard Dean dropped out of the race. March 5 is when anyone officially reaches the magic number of delegates. In that year, the states raced to be first in the caucuses and primaries. They started about two weeks earlier than this year.