{"id":48407,"date":"2024-02-26T16:19:09","date_gmt":"2024-02-26T06:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abnews.com.au\/?p=48407"},"modified":"2024-02-26T16:19:09","modified_gmt":"2024-02-26T06:19:09","slug":"haley-soldiers-on-despite-growing-inevitability-of-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/?p=48407","title":{"rendered":"Haley soldiers on despite growing inevitability of Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Is it political strategy, donor pressure or perhaps hubris? Nikki Haley is vowing &#8220;the fight goes on&#8221; against Donald Trump, positioning herself as a viable option for the Republican presidential nomination in case the scandal-plagued front-runner&#8217;s campaign implodes.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Haley has gone zero for four in early contests, including an embarrassing 20-point defeat Saturday in her home state of South Carolina where she served as governor.<\/p>\n<p>  With her path to victory shrinking to the width of a needle&#8217;s eye, her decision not to bow out is raising questions about her endgame in a party ruled by Trump, and whether prolonging the nomination battle sets Haley up for a 2028 presidential bid.<\/p>\n<p>  Sandie Ellis, a 66-year-old from South Carolina&#8217;s capital Columbia, said she voted for Trump but will &#8220;absolutely&#8221; keep Haley in mind for the future.<\/p>\n<p>  &#8220;She is very young, and is so qualified, very brilliant,&#8221; Ellis told AFP, adding that at 52, Haley&#8217;s &#8220;got several good years&#8221; left.<\/p>\n<p>  Haley insists a majority of voters are opposed to a rematch between &#8220;chaos&#8221; candidate Trump and President Joe Biden, two aging men aged 77 and 81 respectively who she says are past their prime.<\/p>\n<p>  But analysts see Haley deciding to remain in the hunt largely in the event Trump gets laid low by his legal woes or other circumstances such as ill health.<\/p>\n<p>  &#8220;Haley is staying in the race because of the possibility of a conviction, not a victory,&#8221; Julian Zelizer, a professor of history and public affairs at Princeton University, told AFP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is it political strategy, donor pressure or perhaps hubris? Nikki Haley is vowing &#8220;the fight goes on&#8221; against Donald Trump, positioning herself as a viable option for the Republican presidential nomination in case the scandal-plagued front-runner&#8217;s campaign implodes. Haley has gone zero for four in early contests, including an embarrassing 20-point defeat Saturday in her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48408,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[616],"class_list":["post-48407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","tag-haley-soldiers-on-despite-growing-inevitability-of-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}