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    Haley as a holdout could still be more than a speed bump for Trump

    by Ron Elving Mar 03, 2024 6 minutes
    Pat Buchanan, shown here as a conservative Republican presidential hopeful in 1992, shared the limelight with George H.W. Bush at the GOP convention that year in Houston. Bush went on to lose to Bill Clinton that November.

    Nikki Haley was never a good bet to take the Republican nomination away from Donald Trump in 2024.

    She has indeed surprised many observers by outrunning the other also-rans and eclipsing all those men who were with her on stage for last year's Republican candidate debates.

    But she has not beaten Trump, or come close to doing so, in any of the early primaries or caucuses. She has not proven to be an off-ramp for those in her party wary of another Trump campaign or another Trump term.

    Yet even if not an off-ramp, she can still be more than a speed bump. The longer she stays in the national political conversation, the more shade she throws on the former president's prospects.

    "I'm running to give people a choice," she has said, assuming they want or might need one. And while some of her financial support has decamped in recent days, she still has the money and media profile to make trouble.

    That is why it is vitally important to Trump's campaign

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