In the twilight of her campaign, Nikki Haley pleaded with Republican voters to move on from the “unhinged chaos” that comes with Donald Trump. At every appearance, she called out Trump’s ugly rhetoric, his toxic narcissism, his grift, and his reckless empowerment of Vladimir Putin.
Even as he moved closer to clinching the 2024 GOP nomination, Haley warned Republicans that the multi-indicted Trump cannot win the general election. And again and again, she appealed for a return to what she called “normalcy.”
But on the eve of Super Tuesday, this much seems clear: the Republican voters don’t want normal. And Trump’s expected sweep will put an exclamation point on the GOP’s full embrace of the chaos that will define the next year.
Electability? All-in-all, they’d rather have The Trump Show.
Both national and swing state polls show Haley is a dramatically stronger candidate than Trump in the general election. (A new Marquette University poll has Haley beating Joe Biden by 16 percentage points, while Trump and Biden are in a statistical tie.)
The warning signs are everywhere. Over the weekend, Haley said she no longer felt bound by an RNC pledge to support the party’s nominee. Half of the Republican voters in South Carolina—and a quarter of Trump’s own........