The former South Carolina governor has won longshot primaries in her state before. But this one is different.
Nikki Haley returned to South Carolina on Wednesday as a political outcast in her own home.
Seeking to regain her footing a day after her defeat in the New Hampshire primary, the former South Carolina governor urged supporters at a rally here to show up for her as they had done more than a dozen years ago, when they sent her to the governor’s office.
But the terrain for Haley in her home state has never seemed more forbidding. It’s not only that Haley is polling 30 points behind Donald Trump in her home state. Or that her state’s Republican leadership has overwhelmingly flocked to Trump. It’s that as the campaign unfolded over the past two weeks, even one-time allies like Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina have elected instead to endorse Trump.
To her supporters here, it smacked of betrayal.
That won’t happen before the primaries are over.
I would think they would have to.
Right now he’s off the Colorado ballot until the SC rules. And there’s a bunch of states lining up right behind Colorado waiting for the SC to pull the trigger. If the SC doesn’t rule, it means the CO case will stand, and eventually those other states will have their own deadlines to meet and could likely follow the CO ruling.
My understanding is that the ruling is expected in early February. Could be wrong there.