NIKKI HALEY’S OPEN FIELD
NIKKI HALEY WAS A DONALDTRUMP loyalist, one of the rare high-profile cabinet members to leave the White House on good terms. Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner even told Newsweek last summer that she’d be welcome to return, anytime she chose. But there she was on the Laura Ingraham show on Fox News in late January, offering a distinctly non-Trumpian view of the 2020 election.
“We lost a lot of women and a lot of college-educated. We want to bring them back in and expand the tent,” she said. “January 6 was a tough day, and the actions of the president since Election Day were not his finest, and [that] troubles me greatly because I’m really proud of the successes of the Trump administration, whether it was foreign policy or domestic policy. [But] the actions of the president, post election day, were not great.”
Haley’s statement rocked the GOP and, not coincidentally, articulated a rationale for her own 2024 run, assuming she
