BEARKING: Koch Network Endorses Nikki Haley in Bid to Push G.O.P. Past Trump

And hopefully it will kill the Koch Network as well.

This will only come into play if at some point Trump were unable to continue. As it stands now, he'll easily obtain 51% of delegates.

How many points will trumps approval rating improve after this?

A zillion. His followers are zealots

Nimrata is our only hope!

Do you think those right-wing racists will pick a brown Indian woman over a white man ?

A reader comment from the Washington Post: The GOP has officially ripped in half. It's now the MEGA rich vs. the MAGA dumb.

Dyed-in-the-wool Trumpers will NEVER vote for her in the general election.

R9

Those you disparage and say won’t vote hate you more than they hate her. You are the reason they will turn out and vote .And it’s not remotely close. Besides she will speak to them and their issues. They really despise the liberal progressive left. Well to be honest many dems do as well.

Now if trump were to run as a 3rd party he would get their votes.

They see you exactly as you see them

The insults can now begin: "The Krooked Koch Bros. have put their money behind a Nobody with NO experience and NO hope. Sad!"

Kochsucker!

Do they also hate Social Security, R10? Access to abortion?

I wondered why she was being floated here recently, odoriferously, like a turd in a punchbowl. Now I know. Fuck off Koch suckers. Your on-goung attempts at the destruction of Democracy and America are repellent. You are the very worst of us.

R13

Everybody loves social security. It’s how to save it we argue about. A good question about abortion I have not a clue.

She may end up as the #2 to Trumps #1 but I have a hard time seeing her accept. But her as the #2 would IMO make trump a lot tougher to beat.

Interesting times

At every speech, on every poster : What's her REAL name? Pseudonyms for Presidential candidates is NOT a good look.

They can endorse her all they want. The Republican base will never vote for her.

[quote]Dyed-in-the-wool Trumpers will NEVER vote for her in the general election.

I don't think many of them will vote for anybody else in the general.

I'm not sure if this news is good, bad or irrelevant. Unless Trump fails at the nomination. Either way it's probably good for Democrats if he doesn't. This will be a narrow outcome in all likelihood. The more Republicans sitting at home, not voting, out of revulsion or petulance, the better it is for Democrats.

I think Biden would have a tougher time against Haley than against Trump but I think Hayley is very unlikely to happen.

I would vote for Hayley Mills, r18. I think most DLers would.

The enemy of my enemy is my friend...? Hmmm.

Is she another trad wife?

Dump’s base will write him in, regardless of whether he is on the ballot or in prison.

You assume they can write r22.

R7 I think they would frame it as a choice between Haley vs Kamala and lean into the fears of Biden not surviving a second term.

R22

No worries he will be the nominee . This thread is about who comes in 2 nd in the gop.

Yeesh…skin the texture of an autumn squash.

Oh, and she’s a lying, hypocritical cunt.

Mrs, Rhonda must be SEETHING!

Her facial filler looks lumpy in the pic at OP.

" The Republican base will never vote for her. "

Most Trumpers see her as the lady who keeps them on hold for an hour and then tells them to turn their computer off and back on

Is it working now R29?? Try it again and if that doesn’t work, you’ll have to submit a ticket online.

All of our agents are currently busy.

^ "Your call is important to us"...

Not really

[quote] Everybody loves social security. It’s how to save it we argue about.

Bullshit. Republicans have hated it since it was created and there is a constant effort to get rid of it, or to "save it" by privatizing it out of existence.

Especially by the Koch brothers. The dead one is probably still ranting about it in Hell.

[quote] I would vote for Hayley Mills, [R18]. I think most DLers would.

And we would get First Gentleman Maxwell Caulfield!

Yeah, no, R34.

Hayley Bieber

R33 Republican and Democratic voters are very positive about social security. They like it and want it to be around for them.

Nimrata v. Kamala?

R35, please revoke my gay card for confusing Hayley and Juliet Mills!

NY Times chose to use the most unflattering photo of Haley they could possibly find for this article. The Gray Lady is a real cunt.

Your humility spares you, R39.

This once.

Thank you for your mercy R41, I promise to do better in the future.

"Nimrata v. Kamala?

Kamala is light years ahead in intelligence and compassion. Nimrata is a cold-hearted liar... Oh, yeah, Republican 😠

Has Trump commented?

I think Haley is the only Repub who could beat Biden, so that probably has a lot of people nervous.

Yeah, everyone's quaking at that Nimrata freight train barreling down the tracks.

Honestly, what do people think happens if she starts winning primaries? Trump and his cult graciously accept that she is a worthy competitor and start preparing for a normal primary campaign? Really? And if she actually wins the Republican nomination? Trump, in his very sane and calm way, announces that the voters have spoken and he accepts the results?

I admit I would love it, but then again, I want to see the Republican Party go absolutely apeshit on itself.

When Trump starts in on the racist shit on Nimrata at his Klan rallies, it will be glorious!

The Koch brothers realized they created a monster they cannot control when they supported Trump, so they are now supporting a more establishment candidate that they will be able to control.

I thought the Koch brothers were dead. Or is this a Succession like situation with their sociopathic children at the helm now?

What the hell is wrong with her face? Looks like she’s got Dr. Loomis’ burn scars from Halloween 4.

So the Evangelicals and Pentecostals are going to accept as their president an Indian woman who converted from Sikh to Methodist?

[quote]Has Trump commented?

It was only a matter of time.

[bold]Trump Campaign Blasts Koch Network Endorsement of Haley: ‘RINO Backstabbers’[/bold]

Former President Donald Trump's campaign on Tuesday fundraised off the Koch network's endorsement of former U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley, calling the group "RINO backstabbers."

In a fundraising email to supporters, the campaign blasted the organization as a "corrupt network of globalist RINO donors" and dubbed Haley a "puppet GOP candidate."

“Voting begins in only 48 DAYS – and these RINO backstabbers are now going to launch a last-minute vicious assault against us in the early primary states,” the email reads.

"When BOTH sides of the Washington political machine are out to stop us, I know that we are standing on the right side of history," the statement continues. "The Democrats are trying to imprison me as an innocent man – and the Disloyal Republican RINOs are quietly cheering them on."

Americans for Prosperity Action, the political organization founded by the Koch brothers, endorsed Haley on Tuesday, calling for "better candidates."

Both Trump and President Joe Biden, the group said, would continue a "downward spiral" in politics.

"The former South Carolina governor is no moderate, as she is sometimes mislabelled. Haley would impose a five-year term limit on civil servants, send US special forces into Mexico and sharply cut social security. She thinks Biden is weak on Russia, China and Hamas. But the contents of her platform are irrelevant. Everyone looks moderate compared to Trump. Because she is not him, Haley would have dramatically better prospects of defeating Biden.

It would be spurious to put numbers on her chances. They are not high. But it is worth stressing that America is not relishing another Trump vs Biden contest. The fact that Haley has been on many sides of many issues might be a problem. But she is a politician; it has been known to happen. It is precisely Haley’s malleability that would make her dangerous to Biden in the general election. This leaves Democrats in the awkward position of both dreading Trump and rooting for him."

“We’re gonna turn the page here. This is not a nursing home and it’s certainly not an orange grove. Also, it’s not a circus!”

I thought the Koch brothers were dead. Thought those fangs had been pulled.

Apropos of nothing, I was boarding a SW flight from Phoenix to St. Louis on Thursday and the guy behind me was talking to another guy and revealed that he worked for Americans For Prosperity, the Koch Brothers libertarian lobbying group. He worked out of Topeka, Kansas, and sounded like an asshole.

R50 it looks like she went to some South Carolina dermatologist with no experience with lasers for her orange peel acne scars and is also suffering from filler migration. I also think she uses lightening cream which is hell on skin

Trump won't win, it's only the media who's keeping him alive.

Biggest war monger who ever ran. Datalounge will love her.

she's a batshit crazy election denier - wtf - she's not going to do anything of substance.......American's are nuts......

[quote]I thought the Koch brothers were dead.

You were half right. David is dead, Charles is not.

I will laugh until I pollute my britches if the Nazi Koch cuntrags are forced into backing an immigrant who CONVERTED to Christing.

The John Birch society will oust them despite their legacy status. I am actually praying Nimrata-ji is the nominee. I fucking hope!

“He can call me birdbrain all he wants but the thing is… he has no real plan. He’s scared!”

Unfortunately, even when the last of the Koch brothers dies , their devastating and destructive influence on American politics and American society will continue. For example, “Citizen United” is their creation, ALEC is another, and they have developed, recruited, educated, trained , and organized an army of lawyers, politicians, media minds, etc, so that their ideas and influence will continue after their deaths. Sad, but true, they have achieved many of their goals within a very short time period (40 + years).

Federalist Society too.