The former South Carolina governor still trails the ex-president, but has made strides in polling ahead of the New Hampshire primary
  • alyaza [they/she]@beehaw.orgM
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    11 months ago

    “in New Hampshire” is the important caveat here, and this is an outlier-low for Trump poll too. nationally she continues to poll anywhere from 30 to 50 points behind him, and in any case it’s not a given that “winning New Hampshire” is capable of catapulting her to victory with a Republican electorate that clearly likes Trump a lot

    • SomeGuyNamedPaul@beehaw.orgEnglish
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      11 months ago

      At this point there’s a huge swath of Republican voters who don’t know who the heck she is. Trump may have done the right thing by snubbing the primary debates because he’s managed to help keep the knuckle-draggers who form his base ignorant of the other candidates who aren’t trying to out-Trump Trump himself.

  • hedge@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Don’t be fooled by her; she’s still a crazy Republican and is solidly pro-life and anti-labor. And I kind of have this sinking feeling that she’ll be the next president. Rightly or wrongly, Biden’s people are supposedly way more worried about running against her than Drumpf.🍄

    EDIT: Not that any of you were fooled in the first place 🙂

    • Zworf@beehaw.org
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      11 months ago

      I hadn’t heard of her but reading her wikipedia page it seems she is pro-LGBTQ+ and anti white supremacy. However replublican she is, she sounds way better than Trump tbh. Which is a low bar to reach of course.

      Also whatever denomination, I think it would be good for America to have a female (and native indian) president for once. It shouldn’t be a job for geriatric white guys only.

      • hedge@beehaw.orgEnglish
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        11 months ago

        From Wikipedia: “[Haley] pledged, if elected, to again withdraw the U.S. from the Paris Agreement, revoke regulations restricting fossil fuel production and curtailing pollution from power plants and vehicles, and eliminate renewable energy subsidies.She criticized the Biden administration’s decision to allocate funds appropriated by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal to create a national electric vehicle charging network.”

        The Earth can’t take another Republican administration.

  • originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com
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    11 months ago

    dunno, shes doesnt quite exactly fit the foxnews look… shes got the parroting part down solid, ill give her that. shes is excellent at repeating the talking points handed to her.

    the thing is; a warm body thats not trump might have a chance against the cold, dead body slated to run again for the conservatives democrats

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    The former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley has pulled within four percentage points of frontrunner Donald Trump in New Hampshire’s 2024 Republican presidential primary, a contest which could prove closer than expected for the ex-president, according to a new poll.

    Haley’s strong showing in the American Research Group Inc survey came a day after a poll from the Saint Anselm College New Hampshire Institute of Politics found she had doubled her support in the state since September, seemingly cementing her as a clear alternate choice to Trump for conservative voters.

    But while Haley still has ground to gain to take the lead in the state, Trump coming in at less than 50% support “shows he has serious competition in the party”, the University of New Hampshire survey center director, Andrew Smith, has previously told USA Today.

    Yet citing two sources familiar with the conversations, CBS News reported on Friday that Trump had also simultaneously been asking his team about tapping Haley to serve as a vice-presidential candidate if he eventually wins the Republican primary to be the 2024 Oval Office nominee, which if accurate would be a sign that he covets capitalizing on her support.

    Trump, for his part, faces 91 criminal charges accusing him of trying to forcibly reverse his defeat to Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election, illegally retaining government secrets after he left the Oval Office and illicit hush-money payments to the adult film actor Stormy Daniels.

    Academics, commentators and political opponents have been quick to link Trump’s recent remarks that certain immigrants were “poisoning the blood of” the US to rhetoric used historically by Hitler, Benito Mussolini and other authoritarian world rulers.

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