I think the gop will drift further right but I hope Nikki is the ticket Here's why

[themaguffin]

I'm saying this based on the ugliness of them.


The establishment thinks it will neutralize Democrats with minorities on some level, but they still underestimate how much their base hates minorities or women who are not obnoxious MAGA/husband supporting caricatures.

We've seen when trump isn't on the ticket, their energy and GOTV goes down.

trump likely won't be on the ticket. Numbers should be lower.

Add a female minority to the ticket and well, watch is drop even further.

The best part is that some think that it will help them.

[OneBlueDotBama]

1. Nikki will flame out....

Faster than Scott Walker.

[klook]

2. I think there's merit to this argument.

I hope you’re right.

[moose65]

3. One thought I had this morning...

We know that Trump wants to start a media empire, but I wondered if he might try to take his loyal minions and split off into the Trump Party (you just KNOW he would name it after himself.)

There are still some country-club Republicans who would resist the total craziness of the Trump party, but would it be enough for an effective split?

It couldn't happen to a nicer bunch!

[jayfish]

4. You're Joking Right?

They will embrace her and claim they were for a "female minority" President all along. Have we learned nothing? They put a spray tanned, pussy grabbing, grifter into office and called him a "man of the people". Underestimate her and them at your own risk.

[Blasphemer]

8. I agree. They will embrace her like the embrace Clarence Thomas. nt

[SharonClark]

10. Yes, they will. They love their right wing women.

[Orange Buffoon]

5. When I think of Nikki Haley and "brown," I don't think "minority," I think "brown-nosing"

She seems to calculate everything to her career advantage.

[Hotler]

6. They really hate us libtards now. Not joking. nt

[Autumn]

7. I'm not sure about that. This woman may be a problem in 2024 and she will have the backing.

‘She Kind of Reminds You of Margaret Thatcher’: Liz Cheney Prepares To Make Her Move

Could the daughter of one of the more reviled leaders in recent GOP history become the face of the party as soon as next year?

https://www.politico.com/amp/news/magazine/2020/11/01/liz-cheney-moment-430972

Earlier this year, Liz Cheney’s ambitions came into focus.

After Wyoming Senator Mike Enzi announced his retirement, Mitch McConnell and his team offered Cheney, the state’s sole House member and the chamber’s No. 3 GOP leader, what they and many of Cheney’s close allies thought was a no-brainer: a mostly clear path to the U.S. Senate seat in a reliably Republican state. The job comes with a larger microphone, they argued, and would set her up for a Cabinet position in foreign policy or national security—Cheney’s passion—or a presidential run in 2024 or 2028.
To their shock, she turned them down.

Behind her veneer of support for President Trump— she votes with him “something like 97 percent of the time,” she bragged on “Fox & Friends” in July—there’s a far harsher reality: Many of her and her father’s closest friends and ideological allies have become the most virulent Trump critics. The large group, which includes former national security adviser John Bolton, Steve Schmidt, Steve Hayes, Bill Kristol, and Jennifer Rubin, are rooting for Liz to restore their brand of conservatism after Trump.

"I've talked to a lot of people about the conversation we have to have in the Republican Party, about how to cut this albatross off from around our necks if he loses,” Bolton told POLITICO, referring to Trump. “And I think it's going to be very robust across the board."

Schmidt, the former counselor to Dick Cheney and adviser to John McCain who has become a prominent Trump critic, said, “If there’s a resurgence of conservatism as a functioning political philosophy in this country, Liz Cheney is as good a bet as anybody to be a leader in that. Liz Cheney is certainly not going to be a person over the next 20 years who’s fighting to advance nationalism and populism.”

Link to tweet

[JI7]

9. The Base decides the nominee. If she isn't popular with the base

she won't win unless she wins similar to Romney and McCain where the crazy candidates split the votes .

[GoCubsGo]

11. They hate females and minorities so much that they gave her two terms as governor.

South Carolina is bought and paid for by the GOP, yet they had no problem with her holding the levers of power. This is the same party that was willing to put an unqualified hack like Sarah Palin as second-in-line. So, they don't hate women--as long as they have an "R" after their name. As for Hayley, she does a good job of passing herself off as white. Her given name is "Nimrata." She goes by "Nikki." That tells you all you need to know about her. I have no doubt that both she and her party are praying that most of the Trump stank she has on her will dissipate in 4 years. Unfortunately, it probably will. This is The United States of Amnesia, after all.

[themaguffin]

12. states and federal are treated weirdly different

[GoCubsGo]

13. Eh. They'll hold their noses and run a woman if they're forced into it.

And, they very well may be come 2024.