Posted on 03/06/2024 10:14:23 AM PST by bimboeruption
Nikki Haley dropped out of the presidential race on Wednesday after an absolute blowout on Super Tuesday.
Haley was able to squeak out a win in open-primary state Vermont but that was it. President Trump dominated in 14 of the 15 state elections. Trump handily won: Virginia, North Carolina, Alabama, Maine, Massachusetts, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Arkansas, Colorado, Minnesota, Texas, California, Utah, Alaska.
In her speech on Wednesday Haley said she will continue to promote the war in Ukraine. She also refused to endorse President Trump and she demanded that Trump court her voters – the Democrats.
President Trump is already winning over at least 10% of Biden voters.
Here is a transcript of Haley’s speech:
Just over a year ago, I launched my campaign for president. When I began, I said the campaign was grounded in my love for our country. Just last week, my mother, a first generation immigrant, got to vote for her daughter for president. Only in America, I am filled with the gratitude for the outpouring of support we’ve received from all across our great country. But the time has now come to suspend my campaign.
I said I wanted Americans to have their voices heard. I have done that. I have no regrets. And although I will no longer be a candidate, I will not stop using my voice for the things I believe in. Our national debt will eventually crush our economy.
A smaller federal government is not only necessary for our freedom, it is necessary for our survival. The road to socialism is the road to ruin for America. Our congress is dysfunctional and only getting worse. It is filled with followers, not leaders. Term limits for Washington politicians are needed now more than ever.
Our world is on fire because of America’s retreat. Standing by our allies in Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan is a moral imperative. But it’s also more than that. If we retreat further, there will be more war, not less. As important.
While we stand strong for the cause of freedom, we must bind together as Americans. We must turn away from the darkness of hatred and division. I will continue to promote all those values, as is the right of every american. I sought the honor of being your president. But in our great country, being a private citizen is privilege enough in itself, and that’s a privilege I very much look forward to enjoying.
In all likelihood, Donald Trump will be the republican nominee when our party convention meets in July. I congratulate him and wish him well. I wish anyone well who would be America’s president. Our country is too precious to let our differences divide us. I have always been a conservative Republican and always supported the republican nominee.
But on this question, as she did on so many others, Margaret Thatcher provided some good advice when she said, quote, never just follow the crowd. Always make up your own mind. It is now up to Donald Trump to earn the votes of those in our party and beyond it who did not support him, and I hope he does that. At its best, politics is about bringing people into your cause, not turning them away. And our conservative cause badly needs more people.
This is now his time for choosing. I end my campaign with the same words. I began it from the book of Joshua. I direct them to all Americans, but especially to so many of the women and girls out there who put their faith in our campaign. Be strong and courageous.
Do not be afraid. Do not be discouraged. For God will be with you wherever you go in this campaign. I have seen our country’s greatness from the bottom of my heart. Thank you, America.
God bless.
Buh-bye, Nikki.
Former poster girl for acne cream.
All three or four legitimate ones that weren’t Democrat crossovers who will vote for Biden regardless of whether he’s vertical or not
If need be, yes. But I don't imagine that there will be in need for her to do that. In case you haven't noticed, endless war -- in Ukraine and elsewhere -- is pretty much all that GOP, Inc. has ever had to offer. So she can sit tight where she is and "promote Ukraine" to the delight of "real Republicans" everywhere.
Those who are looking for someone who puts America first -- an America that's strong, but at peace with the world to the greatest extent possible -- have already moved on from the war mongering Grand Old Party.
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Haley’s supporters are 90% Democrat voters.
Haley wants Trump to offer her some concession when she has no bargaining chips. The time to negotiate with Trump would have been prior to her Super Tuesday disaster. She was full steam ahead and showed no interest in bringing the party together prior to embarrassing herself yesterday.
Most of the Republicans who actually voted for her will vote for Trump in the general. The rest of her vote came from Democrats who have no intention of voting for ANY Republican in the general election. Bringing the country or the party together was the last thing on Haley’s mind. Trump doesn’t need her and has no need to reward her for her kamikaze campaign. She would only use any concessions from Trump to undermine him.
I’m starting to miss the FR Party pukes lectures about being a crazy conservative purist and how not voting for the GOP nominee no matter who they maybe was my obligation and how dare I question their beloved party aka exclusive clubs leadership and candidate of choice.
JEB Haley’s voters are Democrats or liberal Republican establishment, Trump isn’t going to get these votes so why waste the time and effort. All the GOP establishment cares about is tax policy and preputial war, with of course everyone but them and their families doing the fighting and dying.
Is she going to send her adult children to fight in eastern Ukraine? No.
Ninety percent of her voters will come over. No courting necessary.
VIDEO
Haley suspends campaign; What’s next for November?
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3-6-2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqtCf_gkZkU
“I wish anyone well who would be America’s president”
That’s an endorcement.
Hey sarge, I think MOST of us here have been at this with the GOPe for DECADES, I swear I felt like a battered wife, just kept going back because of an R next to their stinking name AND just LOOK at what these scum asshats have done to our beloved nation!! WE ALL KNEW before we voted for these bastards repeatedly how they had betrayed us at every stinking turn but believed it was better than the Dem, WELL the betrayal of Trump by OUR OWN stinking party was the red line in the sand after DECADES of holding our noses and voting for these pukes, knocking on doors, working their stinking offices, making calls, delivering signs, they gave us all the middle finger!! I have had such a feeling of guilt having held my nose voting these BASTARDS into office working endless voluntary hours for them AND looking at my nation today where I have to speak 9 different languages to get by!! SPIT!! I want to THANK with ALL OF MY HEART our younger generation for the fierce fighting energy they have, I want to THANK Trump for EVERYTHING he has sacrificed for our great nation AND telling the swamp to F OFF and BRING IT!!! He is definitely a man needed for this time God Bless Him!! TEXAS patriots THANK YOU ALL for standing STRONG in the breech and overthrowing the the Bush,Rove cabal your work there is not done yet we have some run offs there BRING IT HOME PATRIOTS!!!
Trump doing a play by play of Biden’s SOTU tomorrow will help them decide.
I'll bet you Biden has already read and watched video of his 60 minute speech with consultants at least 3-4 times already. And he'll still screw it up here and there.
Thank. I always LOL at that.
most welcome...
Trump will be brutal as he corrects him live. 😂
Yeah, I’m sure Trump is sweating the 7 people who voted for her.
Oh no, now’s the time for her to collect her big payoff. She, like Nuland, will be sitting on numerous MIC boards of directors, raking in millions in salary from each one. That is how the MICongressionalComplex works.
Promote a corrupt nation, Nikki? You aren't endorsing President Trump, yet you want him to Court your Liberal voters, who are mostly Liberal Democrats..
Sorry, but your voters will go back to Biden...as you should...
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