She can’t help a surging populist nominee, but she can make pre-2016 Republicans feel important again.
The realization is setting in among implacable Republican establishment opponents of Donald Trump that the populist former president stands on the precipice of winning again. Worse yet, he has accomplished this entirely without them. For those pre-2016 Republicans heavily invested in maintaining the belief that they still carry sway in a party whose grassroots has fully embraced Trump’s America First policies, this is a scenario that above all must be avoided. The solution: trot out Nikki Haley.
Haley ran a stubbornly hostile GOP primary campaign against Trump. Now she’s garnering a slew of big-box media national headlines due to a “report” from a signature Never Trump outlet that claims the ex-South Carolina…
