Primary contests, though, aren’t national affairs.
No one behind in the national polls by as much as Haley at this point in the primary calendar has ever ended up winning the nomination. Ron DeSantis is in between them, polling at about 15%. Not only is she 50 points behind the former president, Florida Gov. She’s still polling at about 10% nationally, while Trump tops 60% in many surveys. Let’s start with the bad news for the former South Carolina governor.
And while Donald Trump continues to lead every major survey of the race, Nikki Haley seems to have at least some momentum to be his chief primary rival.īut does Haley have a real chance to win the nomination? History shows us she has a plausible road map. We’ve entered the home stretch in the lead-up to the 2024 Republican presidential primary.