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Is Nikki Haley a true conservative, an establishment politician or something else entirely? That’s the question many conservatives have been asking since Haley officially announced she is running for president in February. Haley served as governor of South Carolina from 2011 to 2017 and as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations under President Trump. We can’t recall another Republican politician who has garnered such a mixed response from conservatives. Almost everyone in the conservative media and public policy world seems to have an opinion about Haley. But once pressed to explain the reasons behind those opinions, very few seem prepared...

Amid all the back and forth between Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis, you would think we’re down to the last two candidates for president and that it’s almost November. However, there are three declared Republicans in the race, and more are on the way. Along with Trump, you’ve got Nikki Haley and Vivek Ramaswamy. DeSantis hasn’t even declared but his recent rhetoric – including finally responding to Trump as dismissively as Trump’s childish insults deserve – shows you can expect him to (probably after Florida’s legislative session is over). Other candidates are expected to jump in, and that includes Senator...

ESPN host Stephen A. Smith lashed out at Don Lemon over his sexist comments on CNN about Nikki Haley, saying the presidential candidate is not “some runway model for Victoria’s Secret.” “Age has nothing to do with it. That’s number one,” Smith, who hosts the network’s popular “First Take” daily sports talk show, told Mediaite. “Number two, [Haley is] not some runway model for Victoria’s Secret or some other magazine or Essence magazine or something.” SNIP “What are you talking about, she’s beyond her prime? What’s the matter with you?” Smith said. “I know some women in their 40s and...

Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley says the impending indictment of former President Donald Trump is about Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg exacting political “revenge” and not about justice. Mrs. Haley, a 2024 candidate for president, weighed in on the hush-payment case being pursued by New York prosecutors as the emerging GOP field faces pressure from Mr. Trump and his supporters to take sides in the matter. “Everything I have seen from this New York district attorney is that this would be something he’d be doing for political points, and I think what we know is, when you get into...

DeSantis silent, Vivek speaks.

Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley have been attacked by a number of Trump loyalists for failing to comment on rumors the former president will be arrested on Tuesday. MAGA Republicans have criticized DeSantis and Haley for not speaking out against the Manhattan DA's office for what they claim is a weaponization of the justice system. DeSantis is widely rumored to be preparing to run against Trump for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination. Haley was the first to enter the race after Trump. Jason Miller, a Trump adviser and the former CEO of right-wing free speech app Gettr noted a 'radio...

Michelle Yeoh on Sunday night used her acceptance speech to launch .. an attack on Don Lemon, declaring: 'Ladies, don't let anybody tell you you're ever past your prime.' Lemon's words sparked immediate uproar, with his co-hosts Poppy Harlow and Kaitlan Collins looking shocked and Lemon then absenting himself from the next few shows and grovelingly apologizing to staff in an emergency conference call. 'A woman is considered to be in her prime in her 20s and 30s and maybe 40s,' said Lemon, to the visible dismay of his co-anchors. He refused to back down after Harlow questioned his remarks,...

In a transparent attempt to protect beleaguered co-host Don Lemon, CNN This Morning committed very flagrant bias by omission. At last night's Oscars ceremony, Best Actress winner Michelle Yeoh, 60, capped her acceptance speech by saying [video]: "Ladies, don't let anybody tell you you are ever past your prime." Yeoh's statement was a clear slap at Don Lemon. CNN recently suspended Lemon and subjected him to sensitivity training for having insisted that Nikki Haley, 51, "isn't in her prime."But in CNN This Morning's Oscars coverage today, the show cut out the part of Yeoh's speech in which she uttered her...

Nikki Haley’s vice presidential bid deserves to be hooted down and out of the 2024 race. Winston Churchill brutally described Clement Attlee as a “sheep in sheep’s clothing.” Reversing his famous witticism, we might say that in Nikki Haley Republican primary voters face a wolf in wolf’s clothing. The former South Carolina governor and U.S. ambassador to the United Nations makes no bones about where she wants to take the GOP: back to the failed pre-Trump consensus for endless war and servitude to big business. Her vice presidential bid deserves to be hooted down and out of the 2024 race....

Over the past 11 months someone created thousands of fake, automated Twitter accounts--perhaps hundreds of thousands of them--to offer a stream of praise for Donald Trump. Besides posting adoring words about the former president, the fake accounts ridiculed Trump's critics and attacked Nikki Haley...

The 2024 presidential race will start to heat up very quickly, indeed, the talk is already moving towards the front burner. On the Democratic side, the nomination is Biden’s, if he wants it; the fact that he hasn’t announced yet has created some questions (Breitbart headline, 2/22: “2024: Joe No Show? Delayed Decision Causing ‘Doubt’”), but Biden will almost surely run again, and there are no Democrats strong enough to challenge him. The Republicans now have three candidates: Donald Trump, Nikki Haley, and multi-millionaire entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, who, on Tucker Carlson’s February 21 show, announced his intention to run for...

We are only 20 months away from the next Presidential election, and at this stage, the Republican party should be starting to whittle down its field of contenders. Yet here we are with most of the people expected to run still sitting it out, silent. It’s true that Nikki Haley has started her campaign, as have a few outriders like Vivek Ramaswamy, to whom I wish much luck. But the serving or former officials who should have started their campaigns by now are still sitting it out. Leaving the ground open for Trump to do stunts like his Ohio trip...

Former President Trump hosted some of his top financial backers at what was described as an intimate gathering at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida on Thursday night. The event is the first major fundraiser this cycle for MAGA Inc., the top super PAC supporting Trump as he makes his third straight presidential run. Several other potential and declared presidential candidates are ramping up the 2024 fundraising race this week. On Friday, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis will kick off a weekend retreat with roughly 150 of his top donors at the Four Seasons resort in Palm Beach, just a...

CNN should have taken this golden opportunity to shed one of its most embarrassing actsAs for promoting policies that actually harm women — for example, encouraging confused men to parade around in women’s clothes, compete on sports teams against women, and even mutilate themselves in a vain attempt to become women — well, such insane policies have the bad housekeeping seal of woke approval. So they are firing on all cylinders in politically correct redoubts like CNN.So Licht welcomed Lemón back from his little timeout. This morning, Lemón issued one of the those grating mock apologies that minor celebrities emit...

URBANDALE, Iowa — Older Republicans say they aren’t opposed to Nikki Haley’s call for a new generation of politicians leading their party. But when she calls for mental competency tests for politicians over the age of 75, some of them start to feel insulted. The 51-year-old Republican presidential contender has made evaluating the mental acuity of elder statesmen a key part of her opening campaign pitch. It’s one of the only ways Haley has sought to explicitly differentiate herself from former President Donald Trump, who is 76. And it’s one of the cudgels she’s deployed against 80-year-old President Joe Biden....

Embattled CNN host Don Lemon will return to his morning show on Wednesday following an extended absence amid his controversial remarks about Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley, according to a memo from CNN boss Chris Licht to staff. "I sat down with Don and had a frank and meaningful conversation. He has agreed to participate in formal training, as well as continuing to listen and learn. We take this situation very seriously," Licht told staff in the memo obtained by Fox News Digital late Monday . "It is important to me that CNN balances accountability with a fostering a culture...

CNN anchor Don Lemon will be temporarily benched from the network on Monday following his controversial comments demeaning 2024 GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley, according to a CNN insider. A CNN insider told Fox News Digital that Lemon has no plans to return to air earlier than Tuesday, adding that he is "taking the holiday" Monday and that his return to the show depends on "where his head is at." Lemon's boss, CNN CEO Chris Licht, scolded the host on Friday for the comment, calling it "upsetting, unacceptable and unfair" and a "huge distraction." Following intense backlash, Lemon tweeted out...

Don Lemon will not appear Monday morning on CNN. Fox News Digital reports CNN has benched the host as it mulls his future at the network. Last week, Lemon mansplained to his female co-hosts that women over 50 are no longer in prime condition while discussing Nikki Haley running for president as a 51-year-old woman. The commentary supposedly offended female staffers as well as his boss. CEO Chris Licht opened his daily 9 a.m. editorial call Friday by rebuking Lemon’s segment.

What a disaster. The CNN morning show is in shambles as reports of in-fighting and Don Lemon’s self-destructive behavior find their way to the front page of every news site. Lemon’s Thursday remark about presidential candidate Nikki Haley must have rubbed some execs the wrong way because “Don has the day off” today.More likely —Don no-showed.He did attempt a Twitter apology, but it didn’t exactly take. From Breitbart News:Don has the day off…Yeah, I bet he does…CNN This Morning is doomed. Lemon is imploding, and Kaitlin Collins and Poppy Harlow have all the charm of a first wife. The...

Wait, did I say Nikki Harris? I meant Nikki Haley, but it's an understandable mistake. After all, as a good friend deep in politics recently pointed out to me, Nikki Haley is the Kamala Harris of the Republican Party. And now Nikki says she wants to be president, announcing her doomed candidacy with hilariously hackneyed and overwrought fanfare ("Now is the time for a strong and proud America!"), though everyone with half a cerebral cortex can see that she's really just trying to position herself as the vice-presidential nominee when either Donald Trump or Ron DeSantis gets the nomination. It's...