How long should we pay attention to Nikki Haley?

The hardest call for a journo to make in the modern media ecoystem is to render something not newsworthy.

On the day before Nikki Haley was sure to be electorally flattened in her home state, her campaign manager summoned the press to acknowledge their primary campaign is no longer about winning.

Betsy Ankney made clear she can read the polls and do the math. 

Haley is down 28 points to Donald Trump in South Carolina, which votes Saturday in the fifth Republican presidential nominating contest of 2024. (Haley is 0-4, in case you’re keeping score). 

But no matter how harsh a shellacking the former Tea Party governor endures, her campaign is adamant she will forge fearlessly onward to incur more likely defeats in Michigan and California and Minnesota and Vermont.

<Cue the Dean scream ….. Arrghhh!!!>

If a big whopping L at home doesn’t embarrass Nikki, it’s hard to see where else on the calendar would. A month ago, wisdom and history said she would’ve ceased her campaign after an 11-point loss in New Hampshire. Now the smarter money might be on her hanging around through the convention.