What Next: Nikki Haley’s Surge to Second

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🗓️ 5 December 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Last week, former UN ambassador and South Carolina governor Nikki Haley scored a coveted endorsement from Charles Koch’s political advocacy group. She’s passed Ron DeSantis in the polls—and now, she’s the top, non-Trump Republican candidate for president. But is there any hope of winning over Trump voters—or is this a race to be the candidate who steps in if the former president goes to jail? Guest: Alexandra Ulmer, reporter at Reuters covering the 2024 U.S. presidential race, with a focus on Republicans, donors and AI. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Dear Prudence—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on What Next. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to help support our work. Podcast production by Elena Schwartz, Madeline Ducharme, Anna Phillips, Paige Osburn, and Rob Gunther. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:44.0	tomorrow, when the Republican Party hosts its fourth and possibly final presidential primary
0:56.3	debate, I'm pretty sure I know who's going to be Mickey Haley.
1:07.0	Alexander Ulmer from over at Reuters. She is prepared to co-sign with me here.
1:15.0	She says these debates, as chaotic and strange as have been,
1:19.0	they're where long shot candidate Nicky Haley has been able to shine.
1:23.8	In fact, that's what kind of propelled her,
1:26.7	you know, near dead campaign kind of up
1:30.2	and turned her into possibly the main challenger for Trump.
1:33.3	Did you say near dead campaign?
1:35.3	I mean it was, you know, she was languishing at 3% in the polls for a long time and
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