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It’s very likely that the former South Carolina governor was more popular than Donald Trump or Kamala Harris. But our system won’t recognize it.A s we prepare to watch Donald Trump take the oath of office Monday, it’s worth bearing in mind this fact. If America had an electoral system that elected the candidate whom a majority of America’s voters preferred when compared one-on-one to each alternative, it would be Nikki Haley, not Donald Trump, who would become the new President on January 20.Yes, we found out in November that the American electorate preferred Trump to Kamala Harris. But it...

Up until now, I've never been a Nikki Haley-hater. She did a good job as governor of South Carolina, and as President Trump's ambassador to the United Nations, and she has a reasonably good take on the issues, based on her GOP debate performances. If Trump were one way or another taken out of the presidential race, I've been all ears for her as an alternative. But now she's jumped the shark. In an interview with NBC's Kristin Welker, Haley had this to say about a New York jury awarding E. Jean Carroll a mighty $83.3 million for defamation in...

Liberal activists are targeting Nikki Haley with false claims about her real name and claiming she is trying to hide behind her race "to fit in" and "kowtowing" to "white folks." SNIP Haley has for years faced attacks for not using her first name, but she has gone by her middle name, Nikki, since she was a child. In 2021, PolitiFact called the assertion that Haley "whitewashed" her name a "pants-on-fire" falsehood. SNIP After Haley announced her presidential bid, journalists from prominent media outlets such as CNN, ABC and MSNBC quickly launched a wave of attacks against her — including...