It was a great showing with general election voters! But womp womp, no one cares.
At Wednesday night’s Republican presidential primary debate, former South Carolina Gov. and United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley looked comfortable onstage and made a series of fluid, coherent, and strategically savvy statements about what positions the Republican Party’s presidential nominee should take on a number of issues.
On the subject of abortion, she observed that the Senate is extremely unlikely to approve a federal ban, said contraception should be available to every woman, and proposed an effort to find “consensus” on issues like, the encouragement of adoption, and conscientious objection–style opt-outs for doctors and nurses who believe abortions are immoral.
She said that climate change is real but that the U.S. needs to make China and India lower their emissions. In response to a moderator’s question, she confirmed that she believes “biological boys” shouldn’t play girls’ sports in school, but only after a numbing paragraph of lukewarm rhetoric about how the most important thing is that kids learn to read and schools have “transparency” with their parents and) and that Mike Pence was right not to help him overturn the 2020 election .
The merits of each of those claims aside, they would likely go over well with the general electorate—or, more to the point, they are ambiguous and friendly-sounding enough that they wouldn’ther candidacy, which, when paired with the built-in advantage Republicans usually have on their perceived ability to “handle” the issues of the economy and crime, could make her a formidable challenger to Joe Biden.
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