Posted on 08/29/2023 4:56:41 PM PDT by RandFan
Is it time for Republicans to take Nikki Haley seriously?
According to a new Emerson College Polling survey, “Haley saw the largest increase in support among Republican candidates, jumping 5 points from 2 percent to 7 percent” following last week’s debate.
“Nikki Haley’s support increased from about 2 percent to 9 percent among voters over 50 [years of age],” said Spencer Kimball, executive director of Emerson College Polling, “while Trump’s support dropped within this age group from about 56 percent to 49 percent after the debate.”
This jump is modest, inasmuch as it still leaves Haley in the single digits. But it’s also no outlier. According to a poll conducted by The Washington Post, FiveThirtyEight, and Ipsos released last Thursday, voters were persuaded to at least give her a second look. “Pre-debate, 29 percent of GOP primary voters who watched the debate said they were considering voting for her,” according to the survey, “and that increased to 46 percent after the debate.”
So how did she do it? Haley caught our attention by being first to hit Trump (from the right), when she criticized him for “adding eight trillion to our debt.” This surprised everyone, demonstrated courage, and put to rest the notion that she is merely running to be Trump’s vice president.
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Riiiiight... Yahoo & Daily Beast always did have the best interests of conservatives at “top of mind”, as KJP would say.
No. She is not.
This is coming down to a binary proposition:
If Trump is not blocked from running, he wins.
If Trump is blocked from running, it is going to get ugly.
Trump is shaking in his boots. She is within 50 points.
IMHO she is a very good candidate. Not my first choice but glad she is in the race. Might make a great VP on the ticket.
If I had to vote tomorrow it would be for DeSantis.
I’m not seeing millions of Biden voters fessing up to their mistakes.
Yeaahhhh… no. Maybe giving Mike Pence a run for the money.
Nikki Haley’s Sudden Wealth Rooted in Weapons Industry, Pro-War Advocacy Network
“I wish you well on your future career on the boards of Lockheed and Raytheon,” Ramaswamy shot back.
“You would make America less safe. You have no foreign policy experience, and it shows,” countered Haley.
The incendiary exchange, which instantly became a viral, made-for-television exchange clip shared widely, belied a deeper divide in foreign policy and the curious background of Haley, who went from near negligible wealth – with virtually no assets or investments other than a bank account with less than $15,000 in 2017 and up to $1 million in debt – to a sizable fortune.
Over the last year, Haley and her husband reported a vast investment stock portfolio and $12 million of income.
The former South Carolina governor left the Trump administration in 2018 at a time when her parents were struggling financially and had just faced foreclosure. Those days are over. Haley now resides in a 5,700-square-foot mansion on Kiawah Island now worth close to $5 million. Haley and her husband also helped sell a strip mall once owned by her parents and worked to clear the family of previous debts.
Along the way, Haley became wealthy in large part from her ties to a network of defense interests and hawkish advocacy organizations tied to U.S. and Israeli intelligence officials.
In one of her first reported private sector jobs after leaving her last government post, Haley joined the board of Boeing, a defense contractor, a position that paid around $300,000 a year in cash and stock. Haley, according to disclosures, still owns up to $250,000 in Boeing stock.
Haley’s primary income, aside from speaking engagements, is from United Against a Nuclear Iran, an advocacy group shrouded in secrecy.
The group, which has lobbied for military strikes on Iran, is advised by Zohar Palti and Tamir Pardo, two former Israeli intelligence officials, as well as many former U.S. national security officials. The Department of Justice previously intervened in a lawsuit to prevent the disclosure of United Against a Nuclear Iran’s donors, claiming that doing so would “cause harm to national security.”
Haley also works as a consultant to Prism Global Management, a New York-based investment fund run by Richard Kang, a position that earned $708,335. While the investment fund has no substantial online presence, Kang is active in the defense world and serves as an advisor to America’s Frontier Fund, a new group backed by former Google chief executive Eric Schmidt and run day-to-day by Gilman Louie, the former head of In-Q-Tel, the CIA’s venture capital arm.
At a launch event for the fund last year, a participant openly discussed the fact that America’s Frontier Fund is investing strategically in “choke points” in case of war between China and Taiwan, in which case the fund’s portfolio would increase “10x, like overnight.”
Michael Haley, Nikki’s husband, also launched his own defense contracting firm in recent years. Michael who previously served with the National Guard, along with stints in human resources and at a high-end clothing store, earns up to $500,000 from a company called Allied Defense.
An investigation from the Daily Beast showed that Allied Defense appears to overlap with a sister company, Defense Engineering Services, that helps clients “navigate political and legal concerns to allow for defense system acquisition.”
IKOR Systems, a firm founded by Michael, touts clients in “aerospace manufacturing,” as well as gaming. The website for the company provides few details. But the company brought in up to $1 million in income for the couple.
https://www.leefang.com/p/nikki-haleys-sudden-wealth-rooted
Ha, Ha!:
Only if she has a dagger and the Secret Service lets her sneak up behind him.
Whichever ones you like best. It really does not matter.
The question of Natural Born citizenship was rendered moot after Barack Obama was installed as President.
After all, the Constitutions is a "living document". It means whatever the Democrats say that it means at any given time.
We still keep clinging to a fig leaf of pretense in the "rule of law". But that is not what we have now.
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She’s a globalist who is more concerned with other countries.
And other people.
She reflexively comports to the media’s opinion when there is any unexpected event or crisis.
I get yahoo articles in e mail. I immediately delete them. It’s just propaganda.
Yahoo/Daily Beast not to be taken seriously. This headline is giving Babylon Bee a run for it’s money as a satire site!
Nikki is a hawk on foreign policy as are most of the candidates except Ramaswammy and Trump, just not at experienced as Nikki.
What both R candidates and we voters need to understand is war happens when the practice of economics and foreign policy fails.
Example: Putin attacked Ukraine in the Obama and Biden eras, but not during the Trump era. Why?
Putin needs high energy prices to finance a war. Obama and Biden had high energy prices. Trump had cheap energy prices. Cheap energy is pro-peace.
In general, less government, free-market economics is pro-peace. Government tariffs and regulations are pro-war.
Many career foreign policy experts say that the experienced are needed because they know how to push just the right amount of big government to go to the edge of war without going too far. That is why we need the experienced swamp.
There is something to be said for that. Early in the Reagan administration, People wondered if Russia and our allies would see Reagan as a pussy Hollywood actor.
Reagan invaded Grenada and instantly built the image of a crazy, unpredictable gun-slinging cowboy. That set the tone for the way Reagan won the cold war.
Jan 2021 Biden announced many changes that would limit the supply of fossil fuel and more than double the price. That was a signal to Putin that Biden would finance Putin’s war.
A smart US administration has both articulate hawks and doves as close advisors. Not all situations are the same. Truman made mistakes in China policy 75 years ago. We are still paying for it and have to face the reality that the perfect world and perfect ideology does not exist.
Hardly
I think the "Horse Race" Narrative is starting kind of early this election. I think Trump has cured a lot of the people in MAGA of the horse race BS.
Haley Rally Crowd:
One other natural born standard may be that you lacked foreign citizenship at birth and only had American citizenship at birth.
The purpose of the natural born clause was to ensure inherent loyalty to the United States (and owing no duty to any foreign government or potentate).
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