Don’t really know if Haley is a comet or a shooting star. Comets have staying power because they orbit the sun, while shooting stars burn up as they crash through the Earth’s atmosphere.
The early take on Nikki Haley, the former South Carolina governor and U.S. ambassador to the U.N. who made her GOP presidential primary debut yesterday with a speech in Charleston, S.C., is that she’s more likely to shine brightly for a moment and then fall to Earth.
Well, that’s according to the latest poll released by Reuters/Ipsos poll – she fall to earth really badly that she might not be able to recover again.
51-year-old Haley grew up in the small rural community of Bamberg, South Carolina, the daughter of Indian immigrants. Raised in the Sikh faith by a father who wore a turban and a mother who wore a sari, she has described enduring racist taunts and feeling like she didn’t fit in, an experience she says had an impact on her personal and political life.
According to reports, Haley was the first Republican to declare she will challenge former President Donald Trump for the nomination. Others will certainly follow, but for now, the GOP race is Haley versus Trump, who announced his campaign in November.
“Republicans have lost the popular vote in seven out of the last eight presidential elections,” she said. “That has to change.”
Get excited! Time for a new generation.
Let’s do this! pic.twitter.com/BD5k4WY1CP
— Nikki Haley (@NikkiHaley) February 14, 2023
More details of this report from Western Journal via FlagAndCross:
Haley’s assessment of the GOP is accurate. The party must do a better job at courting independent voters and firing up the base to not only show up to the polls but to motivate their friends and family members to follow suit.
However, if the poll released Tuesday is an accurate snapshot of how she is viewed by voters, Haley’s candidacy might very well end early during what is sure to be a grueling and hard-fought primary campaign.
According to Reuters/Ipsos, which surveyed 1,465 registered Republicans from Feb. 6 to Monday, Trump leads a current field of declared and potential candidates with a plurality of 43 percent saying they would support him.
Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who is keeping his cards close to his vest, came in second with 31 percent.
Former Vice President Mike Pence, who has hinted he is exploring a potential run, got the support of 7 percent of those polled by Reuters/Ipsos.
Haley came in fourth place with the support of 4 percent of registered Republicans.
On its methodology, Reuters reported the poll’s “credibility interval, a measure of precision, was about 3% for registered Republicans.”
More polls will follow, but the 2024 race is officially upon us and the field is starting to take shape.
The biggest question seems to be whether DeSantis will throw his hat into the ring.
Sources: Flagandcross, Reuters/Ipsos poll, The Western Journal
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