He wasn’t on the ballot and she still lost.
This is some funny shit.
www.vanityfair.com/news/nikki-haley-loses-nevada-primary
Donald Trump wasn’t on the ballot, but Nikki Haley still finished second in Nevada’s primary Tuesday—losing out to the “none of these candidates” option by more than 30 points in a major embarrassment for the former president’s last challenger standing.
Of course, the whole exercise was symbolic anyway: Trump wasn’t on the ballot because he’s participating in the state’s caucus, which will award him its 26 delegates Thursday. But his dominance was still reflected Tuesday, where many voters seemed to cast ballots for “none” not in a statement of protest against the godawful options the GOP has put forth this cycle, but in support of Trump. “I voted for ‘none of the above,’ because on Thursday, I’m voting for President Trump, who I will continue to vote for,” as one voter told ABC News.
Because the contest was effectively “rigged”—to borrow one of Trump’s favorite terms—Haley didn’t campaign there, focusing her attention on South Carolina, where she served as governor and is staking what’s left of her 2024 hopes. It’s a humiliation nonetheless: When you come third in Iowa, you can say you’re on the upswing; when you come second in New Hampshire, you can say you’re building momentum; when you pick up only 30 percent of the vote as the only major candidate on the ballot in Nevada? It gets harder to say your campaign has the kind of brawn it’ll take to break Trump’s stranglehold on the party—especially as he tightens his grip.
“None of these candidates” for president 2024 ?
h/t BLOWED UP REAL GOOD
