In October, Nikki Haley visited Utah, attending the E2 Summit in Park City. This year’s attendees had one major goal: to find a challenger to Donald Trump they could coalesce behind and push across the finish line.
Now, Haley seems to be having a bit of a moment.
But Trump is the runaway favorite. The candidates know it, though they won’t readily acknowledge it (or acknowledge Trump, any more than necessary). In most national polls. Trump commands a 40-percentage-point lead; in Iowa, the first state to cast votes, Trump is up by 20.
The paradox?
In poll after poll of a hypothetical general election, it’s not Trump who is best poised to take down President Joe Biden; it’s Haley, who hovers between second and third in most Republican primary polls.
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