There is no “long-run” for the Republican party. Haley isn’t even a Republican at this point, she’s just the non-Trump pick. The Republican party is becoming the Trumplican party. The two party system is shaking a bit.
She’s staying in the race just in case Trump is found ineligible to run. That way she gets to be the one remaining option. Happy to let her be a spoiler candidate if Trump makes it to the general, though.
There is no “long-run” for the Republican party. Haley isn’t even a Republican at this point, she’s just the non-Trump pick. The Republican party is becoming the Trumplican party. The two party system is shaking a bit.
She’s staying in the race just in case Trump is found ineligible to run. That way she gets to be the one remaining option. Happy to let her be a spoiler candidate if Trump makes it to the general, though.
I could see her thought process being something like:
Stay in and get as much good will as she can.
Trump is found ineligible or something
Haley wins primary by default
Haley props up trump as a martyr and promises to pardon him or some shit if she wins
Nikki Haley says she would pardon Donald Trump if elected president.
Makes him vice president
Steps down
Trump is new dictator
US becomes easternmost part of russia
Hey, didn’t Germany fall to Hitler in a similar way.
Not to mention, trump’s hold on the party is… not as solid as he pretends. It’s far from a landslide.
The Republican Convention this year is going to make 1968 Chicago look like a quinceañera.
Edit: Oh god, it’s in Milwaukee. That’s like seceding from the Union and then putting your new capitol city 100 miles from Washington DC.
These people are nothing if not “traditionalists”. I’m sure it’s so they don’t have to think.
I’m registering as R in my state’s primary just to take a vote away from Trump.
Hey wouldn’t he try to push Mercedes as a 3rd party then? Plenty of Q’s would answer the call
If we can manage not to fall into a hellish fascist dystopia, that would be a good thing.