{"id":2150395,"date":"2024-01-16T12:44:02","date_gmt":"2024-01-16T17:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/actual-republicans-want-nothing-to-do-with-nikki-haley\/"},"modified":"2024-01-16T12:47:03","modified_gmt":"2024-01-16T17:47:03","slug":"actual-republicans-want-nothing-to-do-with-nikki-haley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/actual-republicans-want-nothing-to-do-with-nikki-haley\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans reject Nikki Haley"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">8<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Factual-republicans-want-nothing-to-do-with-nikki-haley%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2150395&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div class=\"article-content\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Nikki Haley: The Hillary Clinton 2.0 Comparison<\/h2>\n<p>In August, \u200cFederalist columnist Eddie \u2064Scarry <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/08\/18\/nikki-haley-is-hillary-2-0\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">mocked<\/a> former U.N. Ambassador Nikki\u200d Haley \u200das \u201cHillary Clinton 2.0.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Talk \u2062about a\u200d take that aged well. In the fall, the DeSantis campaign even began <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2024-election\/new-ron-desantis-super-pac-ad-tries-tie-nikki-haley-hillary-clinton-rcna126195\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">using<\/a> prior footage \u2064of Haley admiring the \u2063former secretary of state to tie the \u200dtwo together. By\u200b Iowa\u200d caucus month,\u2063 Haley\u2019s comparison to the first major party female presidential nominee\u2063 had \u2062become a popular meme on\u2063 platform X.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2-long d-flex justify-content-center\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; \" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-1898341149\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1379703300879-0\" class=\"mb-30\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-5a6e82808e15dc23fcc556ad2ff8366a fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-5a6e82808e15dc23fcc556ad2ff8366a\"><\/div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"9qVUW\"><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Why \u2063would anyone support Nikki Haley aka Hillary Clinton \u200d2.0? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FJoMZ4pkhD\">pic.twitter.com\/FJoMZ4pkhD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 \u2063Declaration of Memes (@LibertyCappy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LibertyCappy\/status\/1745377509519269938?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 11, 2024<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>On Monday, the former diplomat and two-term governor of South Carolina placed third\u200c in the\u2062 Hawkeye state. \u2062Florida\u2064 Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis\u200c captured a distant second behind former President Donald Trump, \u2062who carried\u2063 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/2024-election\/results\/iowa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">all but a single county<\/a> in the caucuses without \u200dengaging in a\u2063 single debate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf\u200d all the\u200c terrible things about \u2062Nikki\u2063 Haley,\u201d Scarry wrote last summer, \u201cher enthusiasm for <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/02\/17\/nikki-haley-needs-to-atone-for-her-neocon-foreign-policy-if-she-wants-to-be-gop-nominee\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">more foreign\u2064 war funding<\/a>, her\u2063 deference to <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/08\/17\/georgia-senator-pushes-gov-kemp-to-convene-legislature-to-probe-fulton-countys-get-trump-witch-hunt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">corporate cultural assault<\/a> \u2014 the <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/02\/17\/its-a-shame-nikki-haley-has-to-rely-on-stale-gimmicks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">cringe-worthy attempts<\/a> to\u200d hype her status as a \u2063woman (A mom!\u200d A wife!) and Indian (\u201cI\u2019m a minority first!,\u201d \u201cI\u2019m as diverse\u200d as it gets!\u201d) are \u2064the\u2064 least offensive. But\u200c it\u2019s still really, <em>really <\/em>bad.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Scarry has a \u200cpoint. After all, \u200dthe\u200b former South Carolina governor opened her\u200d campaign with a message on identity politics. Haley\u2019s launch <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qITO7H1UVnc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">video<\/a> began with the candidate practically \u200dsaying to voters, \u201cLook how diverse I am!\u201d There\u2019s a reason the \u200dDeSantis campaign thought branding the two together would be so effective.<\/p>\n<p>On the eve \u2062weekend of\u2062 the first Republican caucuses, The New\u200b York\u2062 Times ran <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/01\/13\/us\/politics\/nikki-haley-democrats-independents.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">coverage<\/a> of the campaign,\u2063 headlining that Haley \u201cHas the Attention of Democrats and Independents.\u201d The paper interviewed\u200c caucusgoers\u200c who were Democrats planning to support Haley in the \u200bRepublican contest:<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-74f16a30f1bf5bf5bf506604d092888e fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-6\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-74f16a30f1bf5bf5bf506604d092888e\"><\/div>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>Heather Wilcoxson, 47,\u200b a Des Moines resident who works in the hotel industry, has \u2064been \u2064a registered Democrat for nearly her entire adult\u2064 life \u2014 until December, when \u200dshe switched her party affiliation to Republican. She plans to \u2063caucus for Ms. Haley on Monday, and \u200bsaid she \u2063had convinced several \u2064friends and members of her family to do the same.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>By the end of the article, the Times reported\u2064 that \u200cWilcoxson \u200b\u201cplans to switch her affiliation back to the Democratic ticket before the \u2062November \u2064election.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI most\u2062 likely\u2062 will vote for\u2064 Joe,\u200c assuming \u2062he can keep it together during \u200cthe political process,\u201d\u2062 Ms. Wilcoxson said.<\/p>\n<p>While \u2063Haley draws comparisons to Hillary Clinton, the <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/01\/15\/nikki-haley-flounders-in-iowa-despite-democrats-best-efforts-to-meddle-on-her-behalf\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">failed strategy<\/a> of relying \u2063on \u2063Democratic voters to buffer low GOP support makes Haley sound far more familiar to another Republican warmonger who took on Trump.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[RELATED:[RELATED:<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/01\/15\/nikki-haley-flounders-in-iowa-despite-democrats-best-efforts-to-meddle-on-her-behalf\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Nikki Haley Flounders In Iowa Despite\u2062 Democrats\u2019 \u2062Best\u2062 Efforts To Meddle On Her \u2062Behalf<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-36e779438aafca1a4ed22e1dc1bec4f4 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-10\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-36e779438aafca1a4ed22e1dc1bec4f4\"><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Haley Is The Liz \u200dCheney Of The Republican Primary<\/h2>\n<p>In August 2022, then-Wyoming \u2062Congresswoman Liz Cheney suffered a humiliating defeat in her Republican primary race for \u2063a fourth term. Voters <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/08\/18\/analysis-if-not-for-democrat-voters-cheneys-loss-would-have-been-even-more-devastating\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">overwhelmingly<\/a> backed \u200cWyoming attorney Harriet Hageman for the state\u2019s at-large seat, with Cheney kicked out of Congress\u2064 by a 37-point margin. \u200dHad it not\u200d been \u200dfor \u200bDemocrat voters, however, courted by Cheney to \u200bchange their registrations for the GOP primary, the incumbent congresswoman\u2019s loss would have been\u2062 with less than 20 percent of the Republican\u2063 vote.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, even as Cheney similarly captured the \u200cattention of Democrats and independents\u200b by coordinating Democrats\u2019 2022 Jan.\u2064 6\u2064 show trials, she never had a shot at earning\u200b their\u200b vote in a general\u2064 election. Democrats <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/11\/28\/j6-democrats-sour-on-cheney-2024\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">soured<\/a> on the Wyoming congresswoman and her presidential \u2063ambitions as\u200c the Jan.\u2064 6 Committee came\u200b to \u200da close.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe all came from prestigious jobs, dropping what we\u200b were \u2063doing because we were told this would be an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jan-6-committee-staffers-turn-on-liz-cheney\/\" title=\"Jan 6 Committee Staffers Turn on Liz Cheney\">important fact-finding investigation<\/a> that would inform the public,\u201d a \u2063former \u200ccommittee staffer\u2063 told The Washington Post. \u201cBut when \u200d [the committee] became a Cheney 2024 campaign, many of us became discouraged.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hillary Clinton remains a heroine within\u2064 the\u200b Democrat \u2063Party. Haley\u200d and Cheney are merely foils used by the Democrats to go after Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Haley also has far more in common with Cheney regarding foreign policy. While Cheney used her recent <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/01\/06\/cheneys-memoir-offers-warning-about-ruling-class-not-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">memoir<\/a> to \u2062cast \u2063her exile from the GOP as an outcome of her righteous crusade against \u201cOrange\u200b Jesus,\u201d \u2064their differing stances on foreign affairs\u2064 went ignored.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s often underappreciated just how \u200bmuch Cheney\u2019s representation of\u2062 establishment neocons\u2064 made\u2064 her an \u200boutcast in \u200dthe Republican Party. Before she joined the partisan \u200bJan. \u200b6 Select\u200d Committee, Cheney\u200d <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/05\/06\/cheney-never-apologized-for-spreading-false-russian-bounty-story-which-was-used-against-republicans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">spread<\/a> the bogus Russian bounties story claiming Trump\u2062 ignored Kremlin dollar\u200d signs on \u2063the heads of American troops \u200bin Afghanistan. Cheney\u2019s support for endless aid to Ukraine \u2063also sets\u200b her \u200bfar apart from the\u200b <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/11\/02\/poll-plurality-of-americans-say-u-s-is-doing-too-much-for-ukraine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">majority<\/a> \u2064 of \u2063Republicans who \u2064say the U.S. \u2063has\u200c spent too much on the seemingly \u2064never-ending conflict.<\/p>\n<p>Haley, \u200cmeanwhile, has spent the Republican primary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/nikki-haleys-2024-white-house-bid-charts-hazardous-path-isolationist-republican-2023-09-08\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">banging\u200b the war drums<\/a> over China\u2064 and Ukraine to the ire of\u200b GOP voters alienated by the candidate\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wyoming-republicans-throw-liz-cheney-out-of-congress\/\" title=\"Wyoming Republicans Throw Liz Cheney Out Of Congress\">aggressive interventionist foreign policy<\/a>. \u200bHaley and Cheney might run\u2064 in \u2062Republican \u2062primaries, \u2064but their \u2062views on\u2064 foreign affairs are incompatible with the \u200dGOP electorate. So, it\u2019s not Clinton with whom\u200b Haley\u200d has the most \u200cin\u200d common. It\u2019s \u2064Cheney.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-d534c53c12840ece85eaf1f91d5b52ad fdrlst__b89e9-after-post-content\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-d534c53c12840ece85eaf1f91d5b52ad\"><\/div>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">\n<\/div>\n<p> <\/p>\n<h2> According\u2064 to Eddie\u200c Scarry,\u2064 what were the main criticisms of Haley&#8217;s \u200bcampaign \u2064and why \u200cdid he \u200ccompare her to Clinton?<\/h2>\n<p><span>  Nikki Haley:\u200b The Hillary Clinton 2.0\u200b Comparison<\/p>\n<p>In a recent article, Federalist columnist Eddie Scarry compared\u2064 former U.N.\u200c Ambassador \u2064Nikki \u200bHaley to &#8220;Hillary\u200d Clinton 2.0.&#8221; This comparison\u2064 has gained traction in recent months, with the \u200cDeSantis \u200ccampaign even \u200cusing prior footage of Haley admiring \u200bClinton\u200b to tie the two together. By \u200bthe time\u2064 of the Iowa caucuses, Haley&#8217;s comparison to Clinton had become a popular \u200dmeme on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-new-acting-attorney-general-jeff-rosen-recently-wrote-an-essay-on-foreign-influence-in-us-elections-this-tells-us-a-little-about-his-knowledge-of-whats-going-on-today\/\" title=\"The New Acting Attorney General Jeff Rosen Recently Wrote an Essay on Foreign Influence in US Elections \u2013 This Tells Us A Little About His Knowledge of What\u2019s Going On Today\">social media platforms<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>However, \u2062despite \u200cthe comparisons, Haley&#8217;s campaign \u2062did not \u200dfare\u200c well in\u2063 the Iowa caucuses. She \u2062placed\u2062 third, \u200cbehind former President Donald\u2064 Trump and\u200d Florida \u200dRepublican\u200b Governor Ron DeSantis. It&#8217;s clear\u200d that the comparison to Clinton did not resonate \u200bwith Republican voters.<\/p>\n<p>Scarry&#8217;s\u200d criticism of Haley \u200bfocused on \u2062her enthusiasm \u200dfor more foreign war funding and her deference to corporate cultural assault. He also took issue with Haley&#8217;s attempts to hype her status as a \u200bwoman\u200b and as an Indian, calling them cringe-worthy.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, \u2063Haley&#8217;s campaign seemed to\u200c rely heavily\u2062 on identity politics from the start. \u200bHer campaign launch video\u2064 showcased her diversity and seemed to appeal \u200cto\u2063 voters based on those aspects. The DeSantis\u2063 campaign recognized\u2063 this and attempted \u2063to capitalize\u2064 on it\u200b by branding \u200cHaley as &#8220;Hillary Clinton 2.0.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The New York Times ran an article highlighting Haley&#8217;s appeal to Democrats and independents in the\u2064 Republican caucuses. They interviewed\u2063 caucus-goers who were Democrats planning to support Haley in \u200cthe \u200bRepublican\u200d contest. However, by the end of the article, one\u200b interviewed Democrat stated that she planned\u2063 to switch back\u200d to\u2063 the Democratic ticket before\u200b the November\u200c election, indicating that Haley&#8217;s crossover appeal \u200cmay be limited.<\/p>\n<p>The\u200d strategy\u2063 of relying on \u2062Democratic\u2063 voters to\u200b buffer low GOP \u200dsupport is a failed one, as demonstrated by Haley&#8217;s\u2064 performance in\u200c the Iowa caucuses. This strategy has also been seen before with Republican politician\u2062 Liz Cheney, who courted Democrat voters \u200cin her primary\u200c race and ultimately\u200d suffered a humiliating defeat.<\/p>\n<p>Haley and\u2063 Cheney have more in common than just their \u200cfailed strategies. They both share a similar approach to foreign policy, which focuses on \u2063interventionism and war. However, like Cheney, Haley&#8217;s appeal to Democrats may\u200d be\u200c limited, as\u200c her association with the Jan. 6 Committee investigations soured her image among Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>In \u2063the end, Haley&#8217;s \u200dcomparison\u2062 to Clinton may have been an attempt to appeal to a broader audience, but it\u2064 did not resonate\u2062 with Republican\u2063 voters. \u2064Her campaign&#8217;s\u200d reliance on \u2062identity politics \u200cand\u2063 crossover appeal proved to be ineffective. \u2062As the\u2062 Iowa caucuses \u2064demonstrated, \u2062Haley is not the &#8220;Hillary\u200d Clinton \u20622.0&#8221; that \u2064some had claimed her to\u200c be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In August, Eddie Scarry of Federalist called Nikki Haley &#8220;Hillary Clinton 2.0.&#8221; Surprisingly, this remark turned out to be accurate. During the fall, the DeSantis campaign used footage of Haley praising Clinton, linking them together. By the Iowa caucus month, Haley&#8217;s resemblance to Clinton became evident<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":2150396,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2150395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2150395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2150395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2150395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2150396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2150395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2150395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2150395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}