Nikki Haley isn’t going anywhere, which was expected, but what’s the point? I feel like her entire speech tonight could be summarized in a meme, specifically of sports journalist Stephen A. Smith, with the caption: Just smile politely, y’all. We’re witnessing mental illness. There is no path for Wreck-It Nikki, so she’s remaining in the race to help Democrats and ruin any chances of being part of the Republican Party’s future.
The fight goes on! See you in Michigan. 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/LPkZhyIY5i
— Nikki Haley (@NikkiHaley) February 25, 2024
The former South Carolina governor could not break 40 percent in her home state, and she went bananas. Haley declared she's staying in the race because GOP voters deserve a choice, and this isn’t some Soviet-style election where one candidate is anointed. That’s not what’s happening here. All the two dozen or so states that will vote on Super Tuesday are already in the Trump column. The Republican Party base has made their choice—and it’s not you.
Fox News calls South Carolina for Donald Trump just two minutes after polls close at 7:02pm.
— Philip Melanchthon Wegmann (@PhilipWegmann) February 25, 2024
This is a weird way to frame a blowout primary win. https://t.co/RvthU2Kn9j
— Andrew Clark (@AndrewHClark) February 25, 2024
"I’m a woman of my word. I’m not giving up this fight when a majority of Americans disapprove of both Donald Trump and Joe Biden, she said. It doesn't comport with reality because a Trump-Biden rematch will happen. The nominating process is decidedly for Trump being re-nominated, Ms. Haley. This spectacle is becoming an embarrassment.
I’m a woman of my word. I’m not giving up this fight when a majority of Americans disapprove of both Trump and Biden.
— Nikki Haley (@NikkiHaley) February 25, 2024
In the next 10 days, 21 states and territories will speak. They have the right to a real choice, not a Soviet-style election with only one candidate. And I have…
You may say that voters don’t want Trump or Biden, but the voters who you need to win to take on Bide--Republicans-- are sick of you. Haley has surpassed a benchmark I thought was impossible: she’s become more insufferable than Hillary Clinton. She hasn’t won a single primary, a streak that will continue because it’s a foregone conclusion that she won’t win any states on Super Tuesday.
.@NikkiHaley isn’t going anywhere:
— Philip Melanchthon Wegmann (@PhilipWegmann) February 25, 2024
“Today, in South Carolina, we’re getting around 40% of the vote. That’s about what we got in New Hampshire too,” she says.⁰⁰“I’m an accountant. I know 40% is not 50%,” she adds. ⁰⁰“But I also know 40% is not some tiny group,” she concludes.
It's simply a lack of respect for Republican voters to keep this façade going that the 2024 GOP primaries are competitive. It insults their intelligence. This contest isn’t a two-person race. It’s Trump winning, and you being the political clown who thinks some seismic political calamity will befall the former president. Haley is the woman who just doesn’t know when to quit. It’s sad to watch.
Going wild for finishing in the high 30s in a crucial primary isn’t a win, Nikki. The polling doesn’t lie—the party doesn’t want you. We've all made our choice.
Nikki Haley doesn't even have an "electability" argument anymore, if she ever had one. 54% of Republicans in her own state say they would be "dissatisfied" with her as nominee. It seems just as likely that she would depress GOP "base" turnout in the general election
— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) February 25, 2024