By Sofia Villa
23 Feb 2024, 02:13 AM EST
It is still not clear to me if Nikki Haley will stay in the Republican campaign when she knows the result of the party’s primary in her home state, or if she will continue in the race seeking to snatch the candidacy from former President Donald Trump.
In both cases it will be good and bad for both candidates from the opposition party, because they mutually subtract votes and possibilities while showing a divided party that does not look good to the voters.
Although according to polls Donald Trump will surely give his former ambassador to the United Nations an electoral beating, she appears strong and is not intimidated; Well, she assures that, even if she does poorly in South Carolina, the state where she was governor, she will not abandon the Republican Party primaries and will continue talking about how she believes that with Trump the party will lose the option of ruling the White House again and Democrats improve their chances of remaining in power for at least another four years.
Political analysts are beginning to speculate, as they believe that Mrs. Haley maintains the hope of seeing Trump convicted in some of the more than 90 cases that follow him in various New York courts and that is why she refuses to consider his withdrawal or change of side to remain current on the electoral political map of the year 2024.
She calculates that it is very possible that Trump will have to abandon the campaign due to the legal problems he faces in various courts across the nation and thus she would remain as the standard bearer of the reds to face the blue Democrats represented by President Joe Biden, and then try snatch his re-election.
This weekend the February 24 elections are decisive in South Carolina, as polls say that Trump could give Haley a fight in the votes that would leave her in a bad position with an image of weakness in her own party and before the voters. .
But Nikki says that she is not giving up and in recent statements to the Fox network she also did not want to talk about her possibility of running for another political current, because she assures that she only speaks with the party that led her to be governor and diplomat of the United States in the government in which Trump was its boss.
She would not run outside the traditional parties either with the so-called “No Labels” movement or in Spanish “Without partisan labels” Republican or Democrat, as she defends that it is a different candidacy and that it meets the expectations that the octogenarians Donald Trump or Joe Biden.
As an author, Sofía Villa writes this column in her personal capacity and her opinions do not represent Televisa-Univision Inc. where she works as a Writer/Producer.