Posted on 01/17/2024 3:01:39 PM PST by conservative98
MANCHESTER, N.H. — As Republicans here seek a standard-bearer, Nikki Haley is making herself scarce, and GOP insiders say that could doom her long-shot bid to beat former President Donald Trump in Tuesday's primary.
Haley has forced the cancellation of two planned debates in New Hampshire — one sponsored by ABC News and the other by CNN — by refusing to go toe-to-toe with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. Her schedule is light on campaign stops in a state where candidates typically pack their days with events. And, since failing to identify slavery as a cause of the Civil War last month, she has stopped taking questions on stage from voters.
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Haley's team is gambling that less of her will end up being more in a race that is down to three candidates, with one of them — DeSantis — already having decided to pack it in and move his fading campaign to South Carolina.
That's a bad bet, said Dave Carney, a veteran New Hampshire-based Republican strategist who described the state's history of vetting presidential candidates through free-flowing town hall-style forums as sacred. Haley’s refusal to debate and take questions at her first post-Iowa event in the state could kill her campaign, he said.
“As an incumbent, maybe, or somebody who’s a front-runner — sure, you’re ahead, you’re not taking any risks,” Carney, who is neutral in the race, added. “But when you’re in second place? You need to throw f---ing Hail Marys. You have five nights left.”
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New Hampshire Republican Politicians are disappointed, not the voters.
Republicans?
Like GOPeers?
Sununians?
David Souter supporters?
The “rig” is in and Haley knows that Massholes are going to vote for her, as well as those who will be shipped into the state! So why should she bother?
Fixed it:
New Hampshire "Republicans" disappointed Nikki Haley isn't fighting harder in the state
Good riddance to bad rubbish.
I got ELEVEN (11) postcards in today’s mail supporting Nimrod plus a letter from Sunununononono supporting and only 1 Trump postcard. This is in addition to the dozens of Nimrod postcards I have gotten over the past month. Probably 2-3 a day. The RINOS are pushing hard for her in NH.
They are RINO NEOCONS.
NH people are like Iowa people. All the hype and media attention leads them to think they are somehow special, and should be treated that way by candidates.
I counted my Nimrata postcards since they started arriving in November.
78 so far, 5 days to go.
If I never hear her name again, or which country we should attack this week, I’d be fine with it.
N H GOP “LEADERS” NEED to strongly review her entire status of NOT ELIGIBLE.
She isn’t stupid. Nikki knows people don’t like her and her warmongering. She isn’t going to fight because she knows the RATs are going to vote for her in the primaries.
NH establishment Republicans are arrogant d@ck heads who feel the sting of being irrelevant and passed over. Not to mention the loss of primary revenue. NH Sununu no Trumpers deserve to be ignored and despised.
Nikki Hillary No Way!
Haley doesn’t need to fight, she has the democrat fraud machine money busing in voters for her...
Are they too stupid to have computers know who yhey mail to?
It’s like when I get mail about painting or siding or roofs...I live in an apartment.
Are they too stupid to have computers know who yhey mail to?
It’s like when I get mail about painting or siding or roofs...I live in an apartment.
“But when you’re in second place?”
No. There has been one race in Iowa. She came in third, not second.
She is. Just for democrat votes.
New Hampshire Republican?
Isn’t that about like a West Virginia Democrat?
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