The early contests have made it clear – Nikki Haley has no chance of winning the GOP presidential nomination. She should drop out of the race, endorse Trump, and help launch the general election to remove Joe Biden.
In Greenville, South Carolina, on Tuesday, the former South Carolina governor and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, in what her campaign billed as a “major address,” attempted to explain her reasons for continuing her campaign for the GOP presidential nomination despite the long odds facing her.
She was unpersuasive.
Haley has no chance of winning the GOP presidential nomination. She did not win in Iowa, New Hampshire, or Nevada. She will not win in South Carolina on Saturday despite having served as its governor – in fact, polls in her home state have consistently shown her trailing by more than 25 points. She will be wiped out in South Carolina, as she has been elsewhere, and as she will be on Super Tuesday, March 5.
No GOP presidential nominee has ever begun a winning nomination campaign by losing both Iowa and New Hampshire. Haley lost both.
On the flip side, no non-incumbent GOP presidential nomination aspirant has ever succeeded in winning both Iowa and New Hampshire. Until this year, when former........