Nikki Haley Rising?

WSJ Opinion: Free Expression

Gerard Baker, Editor at Large, The Wall Street Journal

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4.6 • 591 Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

One year from the next presidential election, where does the race stand in both parties? Will a clear challenger from the ever-shrinking field emerge to Donald Trump's frontrunner status for the GOP nomination? And what difficulties could Joe Biden face in his reelection campaign? On this episode of the Free Expression Podcast, veteran pollster Mark Penn tells Wall Street Journal editor at large Gerry Baker that Nikki Haley has all the momentum in the race to be the main challenger to Trump and says her rise in the polls spells certain doom for Ron DeSantis. He also argues Joe Biden's handling of the conflict between Israel and Hamas could be critical to his re-election chances and thinks neither Rep. Dean Phillips nor anyone else is likely to displace Biden at the top of the Democratic ticket. But, he adds, watch out for a strong third party candidate if it is Trump v. Biden. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:17.1	From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Free Expression with Jerry Baker.
0:24.3	Hello and welcome to Free Expression from the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal.
0:28.0	I'm Jerry Baker, editor at large of the journal. If you're not already a subscriber to Free Expression,
0:32.5	please do sign up at Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or indeed wherever you do, you're listening.
0:37.4	This week, with just a little wherever you do, you're listening.
0:43.5	This week, with just a little over 10 weeks until the first votes are cast in the 2024 presidential election, and exactly a year before the general election itself, how does the race stand?
0:50.8	Republicans in Iowa will go to their presidential nominating caucuses on January the 15th,
0:55.2	and all the polling still indicates that Donald Trump maintains a significant lead over all comers,
1:01.1	including in that state of Iowa, which he actually lost in the 2016 primary.
1:05.5	The same polls do suggest that Nikki Haley, however, is very much on the rise,
1:10.0	and Ron DeSantis is waning.
1:11.9	But are they perhaps still too far behind now for it to make any difference?
1:15.6	Mr. Trump is expected to be absent again next week when perhaps just a handful of candidates
1:20.5	are due to take part in the party's third debate in Miami.
1:24.6	One man who definitely won't be there, former Vice President Mike Pence, who dropped
1:27.9	out of the race last week. Meanwhile, on the Democratic side, there's a new challenger to Joe Biden,
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