Nikki Haley’s pitch is that she can beat Joe Biden. But now that she’s lost — twice — voters are signaling they aren’t concerned about electability as much as a candidate that shares their values.
Nikki Haley’s pitch is that she can beat Joe Biden. But now that she’s lost — twice — voters are signaling they aren’t concerned about electability as much as a candidate that shares their values.
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That’s nothing to be proud of," the former U.N. ambassador has told crowds in Iowa, New Hampshire and now South Carolina, before boasting of a December Wall Street Journal poll that found her 17 points ahead of Joe Biden in a head-to-head matchup.
The argument failed in the first two voting contests, now that Haley has lost to Trump by more than 30 points in Iowa and, a smaller margin, but still double-digits in New Hampshire.
Entrance polls showed that only 14% of Iowa GOP caucusgoers said a candidate’s ability to defeat Biden was their top factor in choosing.
Similarly, in New Hampshire exit polls, the same percentage of Republican primary voters, 14%, ranked the ability to defeat Joe Biden as their top priority.
This year, Republican voters also badly want to defeat Joe Biden, but many say electability isn’t a big factor for them.
Still, the parties generally have different attitudes toward electability, says Matt Grossmann, a political scientist at Michigan State University.
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