"The View" co-host Sunny Hostin claimed Nikki Haley was being "inauthentic" while she was tearing up over her husband, Michael, who was deployed overseas in 2023 for a year, and said she didn't feel it was a real moment for Haley.

If Vice President Albert Arnold Gore, Jr. had won his home state of Tennessee on November 7, 2000, he would have become president of the United States. His loss in the Volunteer State handed his opponent, George W. Bush, 11 electoral votes, giving him a total of 271 to win the presidency. Gore, like Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley, had previously been a popular local politician before becoming detached from his roots.

It is a powerful signal when a politician's home state does not back him or her in a national contest. This is the situation in which Haley will likely find herself on the evening of February 24. That she will lose the South Carolina Republican Primary in excess of 20% (more among registered Republicans) is a powerful message from the people of South Carolina: we know you better than any other voters and now is not your time.

As a native small-town South Carolinian who, like Haley, returned home after a successful run in........

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