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The Nikki Haley Debate – The Atlantic

The Nikki Haley Debate – The Atlantic

The fourth Republican presidential debate featured lots of attacks on Haley—not Donald Trump. Justin Sullivan/Getty December 6, 2023, 11:14 PM ET Anyone watching the fourth Republican primary debate tonight would be forgiven for thinking Nikki Haley was the favorite to win the GOP presidential nomination next year. Ron DeSantis and Vivek Ramaswamy sure were acting like it. Neither man had finished answering their first question before they began attacking the former South Carolina governor and U.N. ambassador. “She caves any time the left comes after her, anytime the media comes after her,” warned DeSantis, the Florida governor. Ramaswamy went much further. He called Haley “corrupt” and “a fascist” for suggesting that social-media companies ban people from posting anonymously on their platforms. The broadsides continued throughout the two-hour debate in Tuscaloosa, Alabama: DeSantis and Ramaswamy used every opportunity to go after Haley, even when they were prodded to criticize the Republican who is actually dominating the primary race, Donald Trump. “I’m loving all the attention, fellas,” Haley said at one point. What she’d love even more …