FoxNews.com Keeps Promoting Nikki Haley
Fortunately, ambitious Nikki Haley isn't as inevitable as some would have you believe.
Here are two FoxNews front-page headlines this week:
The article accompanying the second headline above claims that Haley “has been on the rise in the race for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination. . . . Haley’s seen her poll numbers rise nationally and in the crucial early voting states” of liberal New Hampshire and her home state, South Carolina.
Giving readers insight into Haley’s species of Republican, the article adds, “Haley spent Tuesday mingling with top dollar Republican donors at an annual summit in Utah hosted by (establishment Republicans) Sen. Mitt Romney. . . and his one-time running mate former House Speaker Paul Ryan.” Or, as a former colleague once described Romney, “the guy who lost to the guy (John McCain) who lost to Obama.”
Other establishment media propaganda about Haley has said she is “surging” with Republican voters, and anti-Trump CNN claimed its poll found that Haley has the best chance of beating Obama-surrogate Joe Biden next year.
Reality check
Fox News says that its recent poll of Republican primary voters has Haley at 10 percent.
However, that’s Fox News.
According to the most recent RealClearPolitics average of Republican presidential nomination polls by Fox and eight other organizations, Haley, who started at 4 percent a few months ago, has “surged” and “skyrocketed” to 7.6 percent.
Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis are supported by 58.3 and 12.9 percent, respectively, for a total of 71.2 percent.
If Trump or DeSantis exits the race, whichever of them stays will inherit most of the other’s supporters. So, if the polls are anywhere close to correct, the only way Haley can get the Republican nomination is if both of the front-runners exit the race.
Haley likes Judeo-Christian Western Civilization more than the radicals in the White House who order Biden around at Obama’s behest, and more than any of the Democrats who might take Biden’s place if he were unable to continue.
But if this Politico article is correct, there’s nothing Haley likes so much as she likes herself. And if Haley’s serious about reaching “consensus” with Democrats on abortion, I shudder to think of the other ways in which she might throw conservatives under the bus, for the sake of advancing her intense, self-serving political ambitions.
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