Many Americans are dreading a Trump-Biden rematch, however nobody feels the anguish fairly like a Nikki Haley voter.
“She would make an important president, and the options usually are not interesting,” stated Patti Gramling, 72, earlier than voting within the South Carolina Republican major in February in an upscale suburb of Charleston, S.C. “Biden is simply too outdated. And I feel Donald Trump is horrible.”
With Ms. Haley anticipated to finish her 2024 marketing campaign, a vital new equation is rising within the electoral math: Where will her voters — and voters like them in key battlegrounds throughout the nation — go in a common election contest between Mr. Trump and President Biden?
“The million-dollar query is, will they vote, will they sit it out — or will they vote for Joe Biden?” former Gov. Jim Hodges, a South Carolina Democrat, stated of Ms. Haley’s centrist supporters within the state. “A average Republican voter in Charleston is just not all that totally different than a average Republican voter within the Milwaukee suburbs.”
In current interviews with almost 40 Haley supporters throughout South Carolina’s Lowcountry, primarily carried out in traditionally extra average enclaves of the state, many fell into what pollsters name the “double haters” camp — voters who don’t like both anticipated nominee. But a few of them gave a way of what her voters might do in November.