A Time for ‘Cold, Calculating, Unimpassioned Reason’

Startling polls are beginning to emerge from the hustings, where CNN reckons Governor Haley is the only Republican who, in a hypothetical matchup, is preferred over President Biden.

AP/Charles Krupa, file
Ambassador Nikki Haley on May 24, 2023, at Bedford, New Hampshire. AP/Charles Krupa, file

One explanation for Governor Haley’s recent jump in the GOP primary polls is the common sense of the ex-envoy to the UN in respect of President Trump’s electability. At the Milwaukee debate she pointed out that “three quarters of Americans don’t want a rematch between Trump and Biden.” She urged Republicans “to face the fact that Trump is the most disliked politician in America” and declared, “We can’t win a general election that way.”

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