Nikki Haley, Democrat Trojan mare

The Iowa Caucuses are behind us. As CNAV said yesterday, Donald Trump won the most decisive victory any Republican ever won there against an open field. But the Iowa Caucuses, together with other recent developments, told us something else. Ambassador Nikki Haley is not a Republican, not anymore (if she ever really was). Democratic donors – and possibly whoever is pulling their strings – are running her as a Trojan mare in the Republican primaries. (Or perhaps a Trojan jenny donkey.) This follows not only from her policy statements but also from her support – that extends even to Democratic Party rank-and-file.

Nikki Haley finishes third in the Iowa Caucuses

Recall the results from Monday night’s Iowa Caucuses, courtesy of The Associated Press:

Despite her third-place finish, Nikki Haley actually claimed that the race was “a two-person race.”

In fact, as late as 5:30 p.m. EST yesterday, she was texting that to smartphones on Republican text lists. (Including the one your editor carries.) RealClearPolitics regular columnist Philip Wegmann expressed shock that she didn’t have the presence of mind to “rewrite the speech.”

The Johnson Crossovers

In fact she won only one of Iowa’s 99 counties – Johnson County. And the reason for that became readily apparent to anyone on the ground there. Jim Hoft of The Gateway Pundit put together a snippet from CBS News, and a damning screencap attributed to Mark Cuban, famous for his hypocritical support of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (but not in putting together his Dallas Mavericks basketball team). In a probably since-deleted post, Mark Cuban suggested that Democrats cross over, take part in Republican caucuses, and vote for Haley.

And in Johnson County, at least seventy-five Democrats did just that. CBS News Correspondent Tony Dokoupil reported that Johnson County caucus officers had fifty crossover and same-day registration forms on hand. They used all these up and had to scrounge printer paper from several private homes to print more. The team printed about twenty-five more such forms, and used them, too. Those seventy-five Democratic crossovers are the reason Nikki Haley carried that county.

What happened in Johnson County is perfectly within the rules, as the Iowa Capital Dispatch reported them. Less clear is why those rules obtain, and whether it is a matter of Republican Party rules – or state law.

Her supporters would vote for Biden if she doesn’t win

Cassandra MacDonald reports that Laura Ingraham is telling Haley and Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.) to drop out of the race.

Bob Unruh at WorldNetDaily said the same yesterday afternoon. Quoting John Solomon at Just the News – who had just hosted Scott Rasmussen of the eponymous Rasmussen Reports on his podcast – he said two words: it’s and over. But Amb. Haley refuses to listen. In fact, ABC News canceled a primary debate in New Hampshire – after the ambassador said she wouldn’t play if Donald Trump didn’t.

In point of fact Nikki Haley espouses none of the MAGA positions – as Trump reminded everyone on Caucus Day.

Furthermore, NBC News reported that most of her supporters would vote Biden over Trump if the Republicans won’t nominate her. But recall: CNN once had similar results – but when they followed up on them shortly before the Caucuses took up, the sentiments of their sample had changed – radically. So at least some of those Democratic supporters weren’t so sure about staying with that Party anymore.

(Recall also that the former deputy captain of Team McCain told Haley last year to skip Iowa and go straight to New Hampshire. She didn’t listen then, either.)

What does Nikki Haley support?

From her own X posts, and other sources, we know that Nikki Haley supports:

• The mass vaccination campaigns of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

• Unrestricted immigration.

• The climate change panic.

And the endless U.S. proxy war in Ukraine. In another indication of authoritarian bent, she once suggested a law requiring every social-media user to be a verified user. The immediate backlash forced her to take it back.

Tucker Carlson covered her positions in detail:

He also mentioned she gets much of her money from Reed Hoffman, founder of LinkedIn and a major Democratic donor.

In blunt fact, Nikki Haley must still wish she were serving on the United Nations Security Council. No doubt she regards it as the Senate of Earth – with the General Assembly being its House of Representatives. This recalls Yuval Noah Harari complaining of a “false dichotomy” between patriotism and globalism.

Her reliance on a Democratic donor and Democratic crossover voters clearly indicates that she is not a Republican. Without question she is a Trojan mare, with men like Reed Hoffman and Mark Cuban standing in for Odysseus. Voters in New Hampshire should remember that next Tuesday, when they go to vote.