MANCHESTER, New Hampshire (Reuters) - Donald Trump didn’t just want to win in New Hampshire, he wanted to beat Nikki Haley so badly that his sole rival for the Republican presidential nomination would drop out before the next competitive contest in South Carolina a month away.
The former president easily bested the former South Carolina governor on Tuesday, but his carefully crafted strategy to drive Haley out of the race fell short, denying Trump the chance, for now, to focus all his attention on Democratic U.S. President Joe Biden and the November general election.
Trump, 77, was full of fury after Haley, 52, vowed in a Tuesday night speech to fight on, just two days after the other leading Republican contender, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, ended his campaign.
If somehow she wins it all, how fucked will we be? I know nothing about her. I’m a gay woman with health issues that require birth control as a treatment, so I am very concerned about my rights and healthcare.
She’s trump lite, but I think she might actually respect democracy.
I’m queer myself, so I understand some of your fears, but from what I know I’d take Haley over Trump. But we’re really choosing between eating a turd sandwich, or eating a turd without the bread.
Trump is likely more dangerous because he has nothing to lose. Others can at least believe that there’s a line that they shouldn’t cross if they want to come out of it ahead.
We’d be pretty fucked. She may have more of a chance in a general election against Biden as there are a lot of conservatives who won’t vote for Trump again, but also refuse to vote for Biden (or let’s be real, any Democrat).
Her views aren’t much different than Trump’s, she just doesn’t say the quiet part out loud. Just in the past week she said that she would support a national ban on abortion as just one example.