I Don’t Know if I Have Much to Say About This Yet

2024 Election: Potential Republican presidential candidates - Deseret News

Obviously, former President Donald Trump (R-USA) is the Elephant in the room. He’s just hated in suburbia, though. I’d prefer to see a candidate who can maintain the Trump coalition, and expand into suburbia. It’s very possible that such a candidate does not exist.

Right now my #1 is Nikki Haley, and my #2 would be Governor Ron DeSantis (R-FL). Governor Kristi Noem (R-SD) is also interesting.

And what to you know. I just named the top four candidates from the article.

Read for yourself.

Many Trumpists Don’t Like Nikki Haley Anymore Because They Feel She Didn’t Stand By Him After the Election

I say give her a break. Trump put people in a bad spot there. He went too far without solid proof. He may have been right, but he made himself look crazy. No one wants to be caught agreeing with The Crazy man. Haley did what she had to do. From my standpoint the 2024 GOP Primary is a two person race. Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis. I’ll support whoever wins, but they’re probably the only two I would support enthusiastically.

‘Don’t Mess With Our Kids’: Nikki Haley Hails Republicans' Election Wins (dailysignal.com)

Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley celebrated Republican electoral victories in Virginia on Wednesday, cautioning the GOP not to become arrogant, but rather to focus on the tasks at hand.

“This is parents’ way of telling government: Don’t mess with our kids,” Haley said Wednesday at The Heritage Foundation as she delivered the annual Margaret Thatcher Freedom Lecture. “It is people who are done with all the culture wars, and see the ridiculousness of it.”

She’s using a populist message here, and one that has the bonus of being right. And Right. She can be formidable in 2024, but can also flame out. We shall see. Predicting the primary season is about as safe as predicting the lottery.

People Need To Give Nikki Haley a Break For Not Being In Lockstep With Trump

She’s a good team player and conservatives could do far worse than her as the nominee.

She’s still a team player:

I asked @NikkiHaley if she would support Donald Trump if he runs again in 2024.

“Yes,” she told me.

“I would not run if President Trump ran, and I would talk to him about it,” she added. “That’s something that we will have a conversation about, at some point.”

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— Meg Kinnard (@MegKinnardAP) April 12, 2021

I Think this is Unfair, But I May be Biased

Report: Nikki Haley Isolated After Attacking Trump, Not Among GOP 2024 Presidential Hopefuls At CPAC (lifezette.com)

As conservatives gather for their annual conference known as CPAC, Nikki Haley will not be among the possible 2024 GOP contenders in attendance, with speculation that her rivalry with Donald Trump being a contributing factor.

According to one report, Haley is “isolated” after she attacked President Trump for the January 6 Capitol riot.

This comes in the aftermath last week of the former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. asking for a meeting with Trump at Mar-a-Lago. Her request was turned down.

It wasn’t the case in years gone by that we required our political leaders to be in lock-step agreement with each other. I like Nikki Haley. I don’t agree with everything she’s said or done, but that’s true of everyone.

Her comments about Trump were not that inflammatory. She basically said that he went too far in his protestations about the election. An overwhelming majority of Americans believe that.

But disagreeing with Trump, particularly on the election is a quick way to be exiled in the Republican Party right now. I have criticized Rep. Liz Cheney (R-MT-AL) for that, but her comments and actions go far beyond what Haley has done or said.

We used to call this “staking a claim” or “establishing an identity” when politicians distanced themselves from some actions or statements by previous administrations. Now it’s heresy.

This is a bad thing. Republicans rightly criticized Democrats for their “cult of personality” around President Barack Obama (D-USA), and Democrats are now right to make the came criticisms of Trump voters.

We have to be about what is right and what is wrong and not about who is saying it.

The message is much more important than the messenger. Or it should be. I’m not convinced it really has been true since mid 2008.

Nikki Haley on Capitalism

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Nikki Haley is Clearly Running for President in 2024

Nikki Haley launches PAC to support conservative candidates, 'laser-focused' on 2022 midterms | Fox News

Stand for America PAC – a separate entity from Haley’s "Stand for America" advocacy group – describes itself as "laser-focused on the 2022 midterms and electing a conservative force to the House of Representatives and U.S. Senate to counter the liberal agendas of Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Chuck Schumer, and Nancy Pelosi."

Separately, a release declares it will support conservative candidates who will "defend America’s founding principles: freedom; opportunity for all; free speech; limited government; capitalism; the rule of law; and a strong national defense."

If this turns out well, all the right people will owe her and want to be on her side after the mid-terms.

I like her. I know she has made some enemies from the more rabid Trump supporters for not falling fully in line with him after the election, but right now my preferred candidates list for 2024 begins and ends with her.

Nikki Haley

She ticked off a lot on the right with her words and actions post-November 4, but I still like her over anyone else I see as a potential GOP candidate in 2024

Silencing people, not to mention the President of the US, is what happens in China not our country. #Unbelievable

— Nikki Haley (@NikkiHaley) January 8, 2021