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Nikki Haley campaigners endorse Harris as she backs Trump

Nikki Haley campaigners endorse Harris as she backs Trump

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Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley announced that she would vote for former President Donald Trump during an event at the Hudson Institute in Washington, D.C., on May 22, 2024. Chip Somodevilla | Getty Images Several former state campaign committee members on Nikki Haley’s failed presidential bid have endorsed Democratic nominee Kamala Harris, publicly breaking with Haley, who is backing GOP nominee Donald Trump. “This year the election may well be decided by independents and former Haley supporters,” wrote Tom Evslin, who co-chaired Haley’s Vermont state leadership team, in an op-ed Wednesday for the Vermont Daily Chronicle. Evslin, who voted against then-Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton in 2016 and against Trump in 2020, wrote that he “will be happy to vote FOR Harris if she consistently articulates a strong foreign policy.” The same day, two former members of Haley’s Michigan state leadership team also urged Republicans to support the Democratic ticket of Harris and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz. “As Republicans, we believe character and integrity matter,” business consultant Jimmy Greene and communications expert Bill Nowling wrote in …

What to expect in the April 2 presidential and state primaries

What to expect in the April 2 presidential and state primaries

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Voters in the pivotal swing state of Wisconsin and three Northeastern states will have a chance to indicate their support or opposition to their parties’ presumptive nominees in presidential primaries Tuesday. Wisconsin voters will also decide the fate of two Republican-backed statewide ballot measures that will shape how elections in the state are run and funded. Farther south, Arkansas and Mississippi voters will return to the polls to decide a handful of legislative seats that were forced to runoffs in primaries held in March. Although multiple names remain on the presidential ballots in Wisconsin, Connecticut, New York and Rhode Island, President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump face no major challengers and already have secured more delegates than they need to win their parties’ nominations at the conventions this summer. Voters in Connecticut and Rhode Island will have the additional option of voting “uncommitted” if they want to register a protest vote against Biden, a Democrat, or Trump, a Republican. Wisconsin voters have a similar option, although it’s called “Uninstructed Delegation” …

Some Republicans who supported Nikki Haley are still refusing to back Donald Trump

Some Republicans who supported Nikki Haley are still refusing to back Donald Trump

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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Now that Nikki Haley has shuttered her presidential campaign, one person who voted for her refuses to back former President Donald Trump and plans to reluctantly vote for President Joe Biden. Another Haley primary supporter acknowledges that he was probably always a “closet Trump fan” and will vote for the former president again in November. The former U.N. ambassador’s base was never big enough to seriously challenge Trump before he clinched a third straight Republican nomination. But in what’s shaping up to be a tight rematch between Trump and Biden, the apparent splintering of Haley’s voters and donors could hurt Trump’s general election chances, particularly in battleground states full of suburban voters who remain dubious of a Trump return to the White House. For now, interviews with Haley’s supporters suggest they could go in a variety of directions — some backing Trump, some going to Biden and others seeking third-party options or avoiding making a decision about the presidential race yet. Haley has not spoken publicly since leaving the race and …

Biden campaign recruits Nikki Haley donors to help defeat Donald Trump

Biden campaign recruits Nikki Haley donors to help defeat Donald Trump

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U.S. President Joe Biden speaks during a campaign event at Pullman Yards in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. March 9, 2024.  Evelyn Hockstein | Reuters A few days after former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley dropped out of the Republican presidential primary on March 6, veteran media executive and Haley backer Harry Sloan got a call from movie mogul Jeffrey Katzenberg, who asked Sloan to help President Joe Biden take on Donald Trump in the general election. Sloan agreed to help raise money for Biden’s reelection effort and try to reel in Republican-aligned business leaders to get behind the president, he told CNBC in a recent interview. “People I know who are generally business Republicans, they’re going to hear from me” about helping Biden, Sloan said. The former chair of MGM said he has already reached out to some of the people in his Rolodex, and he plans to host a fundraiser for Biden later this year. Sloan is among at least half a dozen former Haley bundlers who have decided to help Biden — and not …

Ohio GOP Senate primary offers an early test of Trump’s endorsement strength

Ohio GOP Senate primary offers an early test of Trump’s endorsement strength

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Ohio voters are at the polls Tuesday to choose a Republican challenger to incumbent Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown. The competitive Senate seat in a red state is considered a must-win for Republicans who hope to regain control of the chamber in November. The race will also serve as an early measure of how much Donald Trump’s MAGA seal of approval is worth in a year when Trump once again tops the Republican ticket. Once a three-man race, by Tuesday the contest was down to two leading candidates: State Sen. Matt Dolan, who was endorsed by Ohio’s popular Republican governor, Mike DeWine. Businessman Bernie Moreno is a strong contender, boosted by an endorsement form Donald Trump. Ohio, a largely white working-class state that has historically held purple-state status, has reddened over the past few years. In 2020, President Joe Biden became the first president since 1960 to win the presidential general election without winning Ohio. Secretary of State Frank LaRose is also in the race, but LaRose has fallen behind in recent weeks, surrendering an early …

It’s Not Ronald Reagan’s Party Anymore

It’s Not Ronald Reagan’s Party Anymore

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For those of us who very much want to see Donald Trump defeated in November by the widest possible margin, the news on Friday afternoon that former Vice President Mike Pence would not be endorsing his former boss seemed encouraging. Not that Pence commands a large faction of voters. Given that he dropped out of the Republican presidential-primary race late last year after failing to rise above the lower single digits, there’s no reason to assume that he does. Still, every prominent, normie Republican who rejects Trump moves us further down the road. But toward what? A lot of my Never Trump allies on the center-right feel sure that Pence’s refusal to endorse the man he served for four years points the way (or “creates a permission structure,” as the fashionable parlance has it) for Republican voters to abandon the former president. By joining Nikki Haley, Mitt Romney, Dick Cheney, Dan Quayle, Bill Barr, Mark Esper, John Kelly, Mick Mulvaney, Dan Coats, John Bolton, H. R. McMaster, Liz Cheney, and a long list of additional …

Trump claims he has ‘never been a fan’ of Ken Langone

Trump claims he has ‘never been a fan’ of Ken Langone

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Ken Langone Anjali Sundaram | CNBC Donald Trump claimed in an interview on CNBC that he had “never been a fan” of Home Depot co-founder Ken Langone, the billionaire investor who endorsed the former president’s primary challenger, Nikki Haley. Trump‘s critique was prompted by a clip aired during his Monday appearance on Squawk Box. “I worry if Trump wins, it’s going to be four years of getting even,” Langone said in the clip. “Well, look, I’ve never been a fan of Ken,” Trump said. “I don’t know if he supported me … because I was the only one that he could support … but I’ve never been a fan.” Trump’s comments on Langone mark the latest break in an alliance that appeared strong just four years ago. In 2020, Trump raved about Langone on social media, calling him a “great American.” Trump and Langone were in contact in 2020 during the coronavirus pandemic, according to archived records of the former president’s schedule. Langone gave $100,000 to Trump’s 2017 presidential inaugural committee, according to data from …

Haley finally bows out as Trump and Biden prepare for rematch – podcast | Politics

Haley finally bows out as Trump and Biden prepare for rematch – podcast | Politics

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Pundits saw it as one of the least exciting Super Tuesdays in American history. Nevertheless, it gave us some answers. Nikki Haley, who surprised everyone by beating Trump in the Vermont primary election decided it wasn’t enough to keep her in the race, and on Wednesday, she dropped out. Despite President Biden and Donald Trump winning easily in most states so far, there is a growing trend that neither camp can ignore – they’re both incredibly unpopular. So who should Americans who are dismayed at the choice they’ve been left turn to now? How will both Biden and Trump learn from their first contest four years ago? And what else did we learn from the other primary contests that created headlines on Tuesday? Jonathan Freedland speaks to conservative columnist Charlie Sykes about who Americans should turn to now that it’s likely Biden v Trump in November How to listen to podcasts: everything you need to know Source link

The Republican coping goes into overdrive

The Republican coping goes into overdrive

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This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here. Americans claim to dread a Trump-Biden rematch, but some Republicans seem more stunned than anyone else that Trump is back on the ballot. Now they are desperately trying to rationalize supporting their nominee. First, here are three new stories from The Atlantic: “A Psychological Necessity” Saturday Night Live during the 1980s was at the height of its satirical powers, skewering both Republicans and Democrats with surgical efficiency. (In one of the greatest of all such skits, Phil Hartman played Ronald Reagan as a multilingual genius running the Iran-Contra plot faster than his hapless staff could follow.) The current political situation, however, reminds me of a 1988 debate parody with Dana Carvey and Jon Lovitz. After Carvey’s George H. W. Bush plows through a string of non sequiturs and repeats “stay the course” and “a thousand points of light” a …

Nikki Haley’s Last Dance (Or, the Hillary Clinton of It All)

Nikki Haley’s Last Dance (Or, the Hillary Clinton of It All)

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It was a common story among the “Women for Nikki” group. Jamie Finch, its state cochair, who had phonebanked for Haley in South Carolina, said Donald Trump voters would regularly call her a “cunt” and a “whore” on the phone. “I couldn’t believe it,” she told me. If these kinds of attacks were predictable—especially after Trump declared that anyone who donated to Haley’s campaign would be “barred, permanently,” from MAGA-land—they underscored the conundrum of being Nikki Haley. In the last throes of her run, under continual pressure to cede the nomination, she had morphed into a self-styled Joan of Arc of the GOP. As her campaign sank, she fired off Taylor Swift–flavored texts and emails celebrating little girls who had given Haley friendship bracelets, which the candidate began wearing on the trail, and invoking “Iron Lady” Margaret Thatcher, the conservative prime minister of Britain. “We are blessed to live in a country where our girls can grow up and do anything they want to do,” Haley said. If the likeness to Hillary Clinton and her …