The relentless wail of Donald Trump
How dare Nikki Haley use his own strategy to beat him:
Former President Donald Trump might owe Sen. Ted Cruz an apology.
And no, it’s not about the long list of things Trump has said about Cruz and his family. Rather, it’s about how Cruz and his allies complained in 2016 about how non-Republican voters helped hand the nomination to Trump. They even tried to formally change the party’s rules to incentivize states to move away from elections that allowed independent and possibly even Democratic voters to weigh in on the Republican presidential race.
Trump ran away with the 2016 Republican presidential nomination in part due to his sheer dominance in these so-called “open primaries.” While at the same time, Cruz struggled to keep up by winning in closed primaries and caucuses.
Now, Trump is sounding the alarm at the possibility that former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley could use his old playbook against him.
“As you know, Nikki Haley, in particular, is counting on the Democrats and liberals to infiltrate your Republican primary, you know that, that’s what’s happening,” Trump said at a rally in New Hampshire on Tuesday evening. “A group of people coming in that are not Republicans and it’s artificially boosting her numbers here, although we are still leading her by a lot.”
Boo hoo hoo. Somebody’s always cheating poor old Trump.
But I have to say that Haley’s comments on this are as cowardly as ever:
“Nikki has always believed that the Republican Party has to be about addition, not subtraction. Republicans have lost the popular vote in the last seven of the eight elections,” Haley spokesperson AnnMarie Graham-Barnes said in a statement to Insider. “We lost races we should have won in 2018, 2020, and 2022. If Republicans want to start winning again, we have to start bringing in people fed up with Joe Biden’s disastrous administration, not pushing people away.”
Please. They mean, “we have to start bringing in people fed up with Donald Trump. not pushing people away” but they just can’t bring themselves to say it. So they just act like the big orange elephant in the room isn’t whining like a five year old.