S4 Ep13: Nikki's Narrow Path (with Whit Ayres)

The Focus Group Podcast

The Bulwark

Politics, News, Society & Culture

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Donald Trump has a huge lead in the Republican primaries...but Nikki Haley has managed to distinguish herself from the other afterthoughts in the field. GOP pollster Whit Ayres joins Sarah for the last episode of 2023 to recap the Republican presidential primary and chart out Nikki Haley's narrow path to the nomination.

Hat-tip to Peter Hamby of Puck for the term ‘Haley Mary.’ https://puck.news/haley-mary/

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0:40.0	Longwell publisher of the bulwark and I know that this week I had promised we were going to do sort of a light-hearted
0:46.9	holiday cheer episode but it turns out that there just like wasn't that much light-heartedness or cheeriness to mine, and so call it an audible.
0:55.2	And I'm going to dip my toe back into the Republican presidential primary,
1:00.7	which I have done not a ton of this fall because there's only so many
1:04.5	episodes you can do about Trump being up 40 points, but there has been something
1:09.1	semi-quasai interesting happening.
1:12.8	Nicky Haley has gone from being a last afterthought candidate
1:16.7	to the front runner of the afterthought.
1:20.4	She has been edging out Rhonda Santis for second place and so I want to talk through A how the Republican
1:26.8	primary got this way and B what Nicky Haley's Hail Mary play is a Haley Mary if you will. My guest today is
1:37.8	Witt airs a Republican pollster and one of the smartest guys in Republican politics
1:41.9	Witt thank you for being here.
1:43.7	Sarah, always good to be with you.
1:46.1	All right, man, so you and I did a poll at the start of the year for the
1:50.0	bulwark that showed round of Santantis leading Trump by 22 points,
1:53.2	remember that?
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