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Siding With Disney Should Disqualify Nikki Haley in Minds of GOP Voters | Opinion
Newsweek via MSN ^ | 2 MAy 23 | Jonathan Tobin

Posted on 05/02/2023 4:04:53 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi

Maybe the pundits claiming former UN ambassador and South Carolina governor Nikki Haley is really running for vice president were right.

By mimicking former president Donald Trump's mockery of Ron DeSantis as "sanctimonious" and supporting the Disney Corporation in its feud with the Florida governor over its woke policies, Haley is kissing up to the current frontrunner. Helping Trump attack DeSantis may seem like smart politics. But since her campaign remains stuck in the low single digits, despite years of working towards her presidential goal, it's just as likely that Haley is only validating those who have said all along that her only realistic shot is to become Trump's running mate.

That might make her the Republican equivalent to Vice President Kamala Harris. President Joe Biden chose Harris as his running mate to demonstrate his fealty to the diversity catechism after her disastrously incompetent run for president proved she couldn't overshadow him once they were elected. And since Haley seemed to tout her own diversity credentials as much as anything else in her campaign announcement—prompting some conservatives to mock her as the GOP's "diversity candidate"—she may serve the same purpose for Trump.

But there's more at play here than Haley's efforts to keep her campaign visible and mend fences with her former boss. DeSantis' argument with Disney—which has now sued to get back its power to effectively govern itself via a sweetheart deal from the state that the governor recently canceled—is more significant than any political points Haley can score off it.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: desantis; disney; haley; nevertrumper; nevertrumpers; nikki; nikkihaley; southcarolina; trollsfordesantis; trump
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To: Erik Latranyi

That sounds like hate speech! See you in court !


21 posted on 05/02/2023 5:01:52 AM PDT by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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To: Erik Latranyi

Hahah, so nuanced when it comes to understanding Desanctimonius. News flash, all of the positions are more nuanced that the slogans of the headlines. If you tried just as hard to understand Nikki and Trump you could defend them as well I’m sure...This is why the countrybis screwed (one of many reasons to be fair. The intellect dishonesty


22 posted on 05/02/2023 5:02:55 AM PDT by wiseprince (Me,)
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To: Erik Latranyi

She’s already ‘suspect’ in my view


23 posted on 05/02/2023 5:08:10 AM PDT by SMARTY (“Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.” Thomas Sowell)
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To: Erik Latranyi

“Siding with Disney” is the least of Nimrata’s problems.

All this culture wars BS is a distraction.


25 posted on 05/02/2023 5:23:50 AM PDT by Jim Noble (It is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government)
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To: Erik Latranyi

It does. Go away and think of something else to write about.


26 posted on 05/02/2023 5:29:59 AM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Freedom is never free. It must be won rewon and jealously guarded.)
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To: Jim Noble

I thought the same for a while but seeing how vague and disordered society is turning so quickly with all the moral relativism it doesn’t appear to be bs after all


28 posted on 05/02/2023 5:45:52 AM PDT by Manuel OKelley
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To: Erik Latranyi

Trump sided with Disney too..


29 posted on 05/02/2023 5:47:35 AM PDT by cableguymn
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To: Erik Latranyi
She didn’t side with Disney. She sided with South Carolinians who might benefit from thousands of jobs if Disney relocated. She pointed out that South Carolina was anti woke before Florida then said if Disney can’t afford to stay in Florida their jobs would be welcome in South Carolina.

Y’all are working to hard to attack her by doing what the media did with Trump often.

30 posted on 05/02/2023 5:53:18 AM PDT by newzjunkey (We need a better Trump than Trump in 2024)
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To: Erik Latranyi

The instant she popped off I said she is siding with the groomers. What is she she thinking? Self inflicted wounds are the saddest kind.


31 posted on 05/02/2023 5:53:58 AM PDT by Hipshot 6 (Hipshot 6, Out)
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To: JoSixChip

“You lying POS”

Your intelligence is surpassed only by your vocabulary.


32 posted on 05/02/2023 6:22:13 AM PDT by Pirate Ragnar (Be calm and act.)
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To: Erik Latranyi

DISNEY OR NO DISNEY——

NIKKI HALEY IS NOT ELIGIBLE TO BE PRESIDENT

SHE IS NOT NATURAL BORN CITIZEN

NEITHER OF HER PARENTS ERE USA CITIZENS WHEN SHE WAS BORN.

SOMEONE NEEDS TO DELVE INTO THIS WITH TRUMP


33 posted on 05/02/2023 7:08:04 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: Reno89519

SHE has no intention of bringing up her NOT ELIGIBLE status.


34 posted on 05/02/2023 7:08:49 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: Erik Latranyi

I busted out laughing when she entered the race. I thought it was funny as hell.


35 posted on 05/02/2023 7:15:42 AM PDT by Agatsu77
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To: Erik Latranyi

“Siding With Disney Should Disqualify Nikki Haley...”

NOT being a “natural born citizen” DOES Disqualify Nikki Haley from being president AND vice president.

But heh, because of the ineligible Obama, we could soon see a transvestite illegal alien as our president.

(Michelle/Michael Obama fits half that qualification)


36 posted on 05/02/2023 8:03:33 AM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts )
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To: Erik Latranyi

Nikki Haley has a ZERO following.

She is a NOBODY.

She is only a contender in her own mind.


37 posted on 05/02/2023 8:05:29 AM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts )
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To: Erik Latranyi

I don’t have a problem with what DeSantis did with Disney in Florida, but it doesn’t seem like it’s a major election deciding issue. It seems more like a distraction.

Disney isn’t moving to SC. They can’t pack up all the amusement parks and put them down on cheap land somewhere else. Their corporate offices are in California anyway, to be close to that film studio and TV network that they own.

Trump, if he’s smart, won’t think that saying that Haley is inelegible because of some NBC theory is any kind of winning issue. That train has left the station — if that train ever was at the station to begin with.


38 posted on 05/02/2023 8:26:24 AM PDT by x
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To: Erik Latranyi
That Haley is both a globalist and neocon, traits she shares with DeSantis, has already disqualified her for 95% of primary voters.
39 posted on 05/02/2023 8:53:39 AM PDT by Kazan
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To: Erik Latranyi

Heard candidate this morning . Was impressed.
Vivek Ramaswamy

Hoping to hear more.


40 posted on 05/02/2023 9:05:49 AM PDT by Vinnie ( L g Brandon)
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