The 44 percent
Are the anti-Trump voters who cast ballots for Nikki ... Republicans lost?
Pictured above is Brian Pfitzer, 70, a Republican primary voter in New Hampshire who held his nose to cast a ballot for Nikki Haley on Tuesday, mainly out of opposition to Donald Trump.
Does Pfitzer represent a red flag for a fracturing Trump coalition that is shedding center-right leaning voters who are exhausted by the chaos and find Trump’s GOP unhospitable. Or is Pfitzer a false flag — a Democrat in GOP clothing who was always going to be in Joe Biden’s column in the end.
In essence, does Trump need the other 44%?
My colleague, Max Greenwood — on the ground in New Hampshire — and I examine Haley’s losing but robust coalition of anti-Trump voters in the Granite State — and what they mean for Trump’s prospects in the fall.
The Miami Herald version of the McClatchy Newspaper story is HERE.
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Nikki Haley, curbed
A group working to turnout undeclared voters for Nikki Haley in the New Hampshire primary said the former South Carolina governor needs to come within single digits of Donald Trump on Tuesday in order to prolong the 2024 Republican nominating contest.
Governors make lousy presidential candidates
We need a chief executive, they said. Someone who balances budgets, appoints high-level personnel – not simply casts votes – they said. A person from outside of Washington, closer to the heartbeat of the people. They said. Has a mainstream political hypothesis over the last decade been more erroneous?
The Republicans see the Bear in the woods. Even if most won’t poke it yet.
You get an all-knowing look when you pose the question to almost any Republican in Washington, which is why I carefully framed it the way I did – intentionally open – allowing the receiver to run with it on the field wherever they’d like. What did you learn from the 2022 election results that the party can apply to 2024?
That 44% wasn't lost. Many of them were Democrats, so no, Trump doesn't need them in the general.