# Nikki Haley announces US presidential run for 2024 (Not Trump please) **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [February 17, 2023, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nikki-haley-announces-us-presidential-run-for-2024-not-trump-please/979953 "2023-02-17T17:04:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 26
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2024, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nikki-haley-announces-us-presidential-run-for-2024-not-trump-please/979953/501 "2024-01-26T04:56:19Z")
> [@Sam\_Stone](#): > > Nikki should probably drop out now. No. She needs to be a barbed Lime Pixie-Stix straw jammed in his Pee-Hole and we all get to watch him unravel and take himself down with his own stupid ugly mouth. And then have her get beat by Uncle Joe. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2024, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nikki-haley-announces-us-presidential-run-for-2024-not-trump-please/979953/502 "2024-01-26T05:05:25Z")
> [@Aeschines](#): > > He’s attacked her name and ethnicity. About that she best keep her piehole shu… what am I saying, she’s a conservative Republican, endorsing ‘_a standard for me that’s not for thee_’ is part of the party’s initiation ritual. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2024, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nikki-haley-announces-us-presidential-run-for-2024-not-trump-please/979953/503 "2024-01-26T05:10:00Z")
> [@Aeschines](#): > > believe the proper title is “God-Emperor.” 💩 Covfefe for the covfefe god! ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2024, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nikki-haley-announces-us-presidential-run-for-2024-not-trump-please/979953/504 "2024-01-26T05:14:11Z")
‘The (pumpkin) spice must flow’ said the Orange Man. ---
**Author:** ![Aeschines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aeschines/32/16251_2.png) [@Aeschines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aeschines)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2024, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nikki-haley-announces-us-presidential-run-for-2024-not-trump-please/979953/505 "2024-01-26T05:16:03Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > Covfefe for the covfefe god! Praise JAH! ---
**Author:** ![Aeschines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aeschines/32/16251_2.png) [@Aeschines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aeschines)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2024, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nikki-haley-announces-us-presidential-run-for-2024-not-trump-please/979953/506 "2024-01-26T05:16:21Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > ‘The (pumpkin) spice must flow’ said the Orange Man. LMFAO! ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2024, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nikki-haley-announces-us-presidential-run-for-2024-not-trump-please/979953/507 "2024-01-26T06:17:16Z")
> [@DWMarch](#): > > Looks like the party is trying to dis-invite her from the contest: > > [Republican National Committee plans to soon consider declaring Trump the 'presumptive 2024 nominee'](https://news.yahoo.com/republican-national-committee-plans-soon-231735957.html) And if trump wins, that is exactly how they would try to run the general elections. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2024, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nikki-haley-announces-us-presidential-run-for-2024-not-trump-please/979953/508 "2024-01-26T13:03:45Z")
Cheeto says that anyone who donates to Haley will be “permanently barred from MAGA.” Oh no, anything but that! By the way, what does that mean? They can’t wear red baseball hats? They have to speak in complete sentences? ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2024, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nikki-haley-announces-us-presidential-run-for-2024-not-trump-please/979953/509 "2024-01-26T13:15:40Z")
I know, right? When I heard this, I immediately donated $1 to Haley. It feels great to be permanently barred from MAGA! ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2024, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nikki-haley-announces-us-presidential-run-for-2024-not-trump-please/979953/510 "2024-01-26T13:50:40Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > And yet they keep endorsing him. He doesn’t have enough power to guarantee winning an election - but he can guarantee losing one, if he turns his dogs lose on a GOP incumbent. None of them want to face that. ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2024, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nikki-haley-announces-us-presidential-run-for-2024-not-trump-please/979953/511 "2024-01-26T13:52:14Z")
> [@Aeschines](#): > > I think she’s pissed. He’s attacked her name and ethnicity. I think she is leaning into the idea that Trump as next and future prez/king is no bueno. I feel like John McClane here; “Welcome to the party, pal!” ---
**Author:** ![Red\_Wiggler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/red_wiggler/32/13190_2.png) [@Red\_Wiggler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Wiggler)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2024, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nikki-haley-announces-us-presidential-run-for-2024-not-trump-please/979953/512 "2024-01-26T14:12:05Z")
This is well said. Rich conservative assholes don’t care about his competence, he has promised them even more tax cuts. They are indeed worried that Donald has become too toxic for potentially so many voters. People who won in the game of toxic capitalism didn’t win by worrying about the plight of their fellow citizens. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2024, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nikki-haley-announces-us-presidential-run-for-2024-not-trump-please/979953/513 "2024-01-26T21:41:38Z")
> [@Moriarty](#): > > Modern American politics runs on money. And Haley wouldn’t keep going if she didn’t have any. That’s why this was such a big deal back when it was revealed that she was getting big donors, and was considered a bad sign for Trump. > **[Here Are The Billionaires Backing Nikki Haley As A Trump Alternative:...](https://www.forbes.com/sites/saradorn/2023/12/05/here-are-the-billionaires-backing-nikki-haley-as-a-trump-alternative-linkedin-co-founder-charles-koch-and-more/?sh=7232ff6143dd)** > > The cash infusion comes after Haley earned a coveted endorsement last month from the Charles Koch-backed super PAC Americans for Prosperity Action. What happened in NH clearly was a shock to Trump, the fact that he didn’t just steamroll over her. So much that he started throwing his greasy spray-tanned weight around and threatened that if people don’t stop giving her their money that they won’t be his friends anymore. (He almost literally said that.) She’s still raising money, though she did lose a couple of big donors after she failed to win NH. [Haley raises $1 mln since Trump donor warning, but loses a prominent funder (AP)](https://www.reuters.com/world/us/two-prominent-haley-donors-pull-funding-after-trump-new-hampshire-win-2024-01-25/) Trump’s threat: > On the Truth Social app, Trump, who is furious at Haley for refusing to drop out, said anybody making a contribution to Haley would be “permanently barred” from his political orbit. Like I said, he’s threatening that they won’t be his friends anymore. It’s playground politics at its finest. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2024, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nikki-haley-announces-us-presidential-run-for-2024-not-trump-please/979953/514 "2024-01-26T23:16:40Z")
According to a Legal Eagle YouTube, she thinks States have the right to secede, and “it’s in the Constitution”. 🙄 Hint- it’s not. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2024, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nikki-haley-announces-us-presidential-run-for-2024-not-trump-please/979953/515 "2024-01-26T23:38:45Z")
I was about to say “you’d think she’d know better” but of course she does. It’s just more meat for the MAGA monster. ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2024, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nikki-haley-announces-us-presidential-run-for-2024-not-trump-please/979953/516 "2024-01-26T23:51:59Z")
> [@Aeschines](#): > > Her staying in the race is a nice kick in his gnarly nuts. Now, if he were disciplined, he could do the duck back vs. water thing, but Trump is the least able human in existence to perform that. He is going to spaz out over Haley’s intransigence at every turn, and she’s going to get a huge kick out of it. Add to his freak-out over Haley, his freak-out over a jury saying he has to pay E. Jean Carroll $83 million. Trump is going to go on an anti-female tear “the likes of which” (to quote one of his favorite constructions) we’ve never seen. And sure, Republican women will tell their hubbys they’ll still vote for Trump. But if Trump is vicious enough toward females for long enough, some of them won’t follow through. . . > [@DrDeth](#): > > > [@DWMarch](#): > > > > Looks like the party is trying to dis-invite her from the contest: > > [Republican National Committee plans to soon consider declaring Trump the ‘presumptive 2024 nominee’](https://news.yahoo.com/republican-national-committee-plans-soon-231735957.html) > > And if trump wins, that is exactly how they would try to run the general elections. The worry about Trump getting the GOP nomination is indeed that many of his rabid fans will be in positions to make sure that the election is anything but fair. But if enough of those people are females whose rabidity in the service of Trump has been eroded by his increasingly open hatred for and contempt for women… I’m thinking there’s a chance that some of them may be so disenchanted, if he becomes relentless enough in his public loathing for Haley and Carroll, that those GOP operatives may decline to do any of the cute stuff they might otherwise have done (like making sure some Democrats can’t vote). ---
**Author:** ![sciurophobic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cab0a1/32.png) [@sciurophobic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sciurophobic)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2024, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nikki-haley-announces-us-presidential-run-for-2024-not-trump-please/979953/517 "2024-01-26T23:57:44Z")
And it was such a bad idea even Trump didn’t support it. [Republican National Committee reportedly scraps naming Trump the “presumptive” nominee after he panned the idea](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/after-trumps-rejection-the-republican-national-committee-resolution-declaring-trump-as-the-presumptive-2024-nominee-has-been-pulled/) ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2024, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nikki-haley-announces-us-presidential-run-for-2024-not-trump-please/979953/518 "2024-01-27T12:56:35Z")
Interesting. Perhaps Trump suddenly realized it’s fun to rudely bash Haley, and doesn’t want the fun to end yet. ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2024, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nikki-haley-announces-us-presidential-run-for-2024-not-trump-please/979953/519 "2024-01-27T17:26:24Z")
If I’m understanding correctly, in the highly unlikely event that the courts keep Trump off the ballot, the deadline to register has passed and Haley would be the only remaining GOP candidate who could get the nomination? Unless the RNC has bylaws that allow _anyone_ it selects (in vague, murky rules) to be the nominee? ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2024, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nikki-haley-announces-us-presidential-run-for-2024-not-trump-please/979953/520 "2024-01-27T17:39:24Z")
> [@JKellyMap](#): > > Perhaps Trump suddenly realized it’s fun to rudely bash Haley, and doesn’t want the fun to end yet. There’s nothing a bully likes more than an easy target he thinks can’t fight back or beat him. And who he can get his friends to gang up on. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nikki-haley-announces-us-presidential-run-for-2024-not-trump-please/979953.md?page=25) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nikki-haley-announces-us-presidential-run-for-2024-not-trump-please/979953.md?page=27)