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GOP Debate Post-Mortem: Is Nikki Haley's Candidacy Toast? (Nikki McRomBush)
RedState ^ | 12/7/23 | Jennifer Oliver O'Connell

Posted on 12/07/2023 3:33:13 PM PST by cotton1706

Wednesday night's was the last GOP debate for 2023. Thank. God. How much can we hear these same statements from these same candidates? Hopefully, by the 2024 primaries, we will have whittled the field down to the top two and call it a day. If Donald Trump is among those top two, maybe he'll bother to show up to debate.

Still lots of ifs, but here's what we can say with some certitude: Nikki Haley has been effectively eliminated. Oh, she'll hover around for New Hampshire and maybe a bit of time after that. But Wednesday night's performance showed that her presidential candidacy is D.O.A.

This was the first slice. Most pundits are giving tech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy the credit for taking down Haley, but the first volley came from Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. On the question of whether DeSantis should bow out, especially with Haley moving ahead of him in the polls, DeSantis had this to say about his strong record of delivering results while swooping in an immediate attack on Haley for her lack of fight for the American people.

The world has changed in the almost seven years since Nikki Haley was governor of South Carolina, and so has Nikki Haley, as the moderator's next question spotlighted: How did Haley go from making almost $200,000 a year to a net worth of $8 million? That is being fact-checked even at this writing. However, what is clear is that Haley is nonplussed about cozying up to corporate interests that have targeted Americans and their ability to achieve the American Dream. This was made glaringly obvious as she claimed that DeSantis and Ramaswamy were "jealous" because she was receiving the support of these donors and they were not.

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The Ruling Oligarchy's last hope!

(then like Yoda they whisper, "no, there is another")

1 posted on 12/07/2023 3:33:13 PM PST by cotton1706
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To: cotton1706

Toast? Burnt variety....

https://www.istockphoto.com/videos/burnt-toast


2 posted on 12/07/2023 3:38:17 PM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging.It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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To: cotton1706

If I were cruel I would say that her friends at Boeing should give Nikki Haley a 737MAX to fly around in.

Since I’m not I’m just going to say “Please find the Exit door Nikki”.


3 posted on 12/07/2023 3:38:43 PM PST by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS-REMEMBER REV. NIEMOLLER)
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To: cotton1706
Trump Rally Crowd:

Haley Rally Crowd:


4 posted on 12/07/2023 3:39:58 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: cotton1706

Just saw where CNN was awarded two more republican debates. One just before Iowa Caucus and One just before New Hampshire primary.


5 posted on 12/07/2023 3:40:36 PM PST by Old Retired Army Guy
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To: cotton1706
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6 posted on 12/07/2023 3:41:08 PM PST by aMorePerfectUnion (I didn't come here to guide lambs, but to awaken lions 🦅 MAGADONIAN ⚔️)
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To: cotton1706

It seems that nearly every time she opens her mouth, she is sidling further toward the left.


7 posted on 12/07/2023 3:41:08 PM PST by TomGuy
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You’re supposed to go Left after you get the nomniation, Nikki is getting a head start.


8 posted on 12/07/2023 3:44:57 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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Just saw where CNN was awarded two more republican debates“

Let’s hear it for Ronna the best friend the rats ever had.


9 posted on 12/07/2023 3:47:47 PM PST by gibsonguy
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To: cotton1706

Nikki Chumrabatta

Foreigner at heart

Not beholden to American values, traditional America, the U.S. Constitution nor the Bill of Rights.

A Statist with a history of voting Democrat.


10 posted on 12/07/2023 3:49:26 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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Can’t Nikki and Ronny just ride off into the sunset together.


11 posted on 12/07/2023 3:50:28 PM PST by Bullish (...And just like that, I was dropped from the ping-list)
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To: cotton1706

Say what you will about Vivek, but he’s pretty fearless .... the expression on Haley’s face was priceless and I laughed out loud when DeSantis put his hand on his hip, looking at Vivek like “who IS this guy?” Vivek should get the DJT Verbal Bomb Thrower Award ... he sure can lob them & accurately, too.


12 posted on 12/07/2023 3:50:42 PM PST by Qiviut (If the genocide was unintentional, they would have pulled the poison vaccines, long ago.)
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“It seems that nearly every time she opens her mouth, she is sidling further toward the left.”

That’s the cost of the donations: the whispers in the ear about policy. And ouila! From conservative to liberal (and not unwillingly)


13 posted on 12/07/2023 4:00:29 PM PST by cotton1706
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To: cotton1706
NoRinos
14 posted on 12/07/2023 4:10:07 PM PST by Col Freeper (Praise and Trust in the LORD in All Things at All Times.)
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To claim she is now toast implies she was once some form of bread.

She never was and never will be!

15 posted on 12/07/2023 4:10:38 PM PST by Freeper (My authority? I can read & words have meaning!)
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>> The Ruling Oligarchy’s last hope! <<

Funny how the Trump chumps around here seem to be trying to cheer her on to pass DeSantis... and how Trump never criticizes her but goes gonzo on DeSantis.


16 posted on 12/07/2023 4:17:22 PM PST by dangus
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To: cotton1706

“ The 4th GOP primary debate saw an 87.5% DECREASE in viewership from the first debate, and a 76% decrease from the last debate.

GOP Debate 1: 12.8 million
GOP Debate 2: 9.5 million
GOP Debate 3: 6.8 million

*GOP Debate 4: 1.6 million”


17 posted on 12/07/2023 4:17:41 PM PST by aMorePerfectUnion (I didn't come here to guide lambs, but to awaken lions 🦅 MAGADONIAN ⚔️)
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To: cotton1706

It’s been toast from the day it started.


18 posted on 12/07/2023 4:23:38 PM PST by Republican Wildcat
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To: cotton1706

Go away, Nikki.


19 posted on 12/07/2023 4:29:52 PM PST by broken_clock (Go Trump! Still praying.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

That dweeb standing next to Nimrata... is that Linda Graham, by chance?


20 posted on 12/07/2023 4:30:40 PM PST by Nervous Tick ("First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people...": ISLAM is the problem!)
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