Politicians like to paint pictures that move the electorate in a direction favorable to them. Nikki Haley has been pitching the idea that Trump was Trump when he was Trump, but America has moved on, and he’s not the right person for this time.
It’s a decent way of framing it, but it’s not working, so the campaign has added a new twist. Or, perhaps Nikki has talked herself into another corner. At the very least, this is one of the daftest, dense, mentally-ill-informed observations in recent memory. Haley has said that the next president will be female and that it will be either her or Kamala Harris.
I’m not thinking about who I’m going to support in an election. But, you’ve already said it. We are going to have a female president of the United States. It will either be me or it will be Kamala Harris. And if Donald Trump is the nominee for the Republican Party, he will not win. Every poll shows that he will not win, and we will have President Kamala Harris. I’m not going to allow that to happen. I’m not stopping. I’m not going anywhere. We’re going to do this for the long haul, and we’re going to finish it.
Harris is obviously the monster under the bed that even Democrats fear. She is a colossal trainwreck of a candidate who has no chance of being Biden’s replacement when they swap him out at or after the convention. Anyone with even a scintilla or political acumen paying even the tiniest bit of attention knows this. Democrats hate her. She will not be back in any capacity. And they fear Joe dropping dead or becoming incapacitated before November, leaving them with Kamala.
As bad as Joe has been for their November fortunes, Harris likely leads to a down-ticket wipeout.
If Haley knows this, there’s no threat in her remarks, and if she doesn’t, she is too daft to hold the office she claims one or the other of them is destined to fill.
Maybe someone should ask His Excellency (Gov. Sununu) if he agrees. Is it going to be Haley or Kamala? Sununu must be tuned into the campaign strategy, and it seems unlikely this reference appeared out of the blue unless Haley has begun to show signs of campaign wear and tear and she’s grasping at paper straws.
Nikki Haley: “We are going to have a female President of the United States. It will either be me, or it will be Kamala Harris.” pic.twitter.com/aeI8CEGquA
— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) February 18, 2024
The featured image, by the way, is a random screen grab from the ABC News interview. Given how Haley made no effort to do a better job at being informed (or honest), I felt no urge to do a better job screen-grabbing her face for this post.
