Don’t discount the million dollars she raised after New Hampshire. That pac money is power and employment for has beens. Haley will have the second most delegates going into the convention. Don’t get me wrong we all know the MAGA types will go full tard and burn it down so there is that.
Haley campaign lashes out at RNC, Ronna McDaniel over resolution to declare Trump presumptive GOP nominee https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ha...-resolution-declare-trump-presumptive-nominee
Yeh but, again, so what? If the leading candidate with the most delegates drops out, that does not automatically make the second leading candidate number one. Under the RNC rules, if the lead candidate dies/drops out that person's delegates are still bound to vote for him on the first ballot even if he is no longer running. (an exception I think if there is only one candidate left in the race, then they can vote for that person on the first ballot just to wrap things up). So if Trump dropped out/died then all of his accumulated delegates still need to vote for him on the first ballot even though he is not there, then they are freed up on the second ballot to vote for another person. I think if the dropped out candidate still gets a majority the RNC can free up the delegates by vote. The point is that if Trump dropped out, Haley does not automatically become number one. Because Trump's delegates will probably support Desantis, for example, which would put Nikki back in second place.
Nikki should thank Trump for the campaign donation surge. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/haley-campaign-cash-trump-warned-donors-barred-maga
The funniest thing about it is America has never been stronger. We have the worst case of affluenza the world has ever known.
Lots and lots of things can happen at a convention with unpledged delegates and that would sure be messy. Trump being the walking tornado he is, it would almost be true to form if he winded up in jail and the GOP convention ended up in a giant brawl. We can only hope. As a matter of fact we deserve an ending like that for the snoozefest of a primary season we’ve had to endure. Lock him up!