{"id":56607,"date":"2024-02-21T00:01:51","date_gmt":"2024-02-21T00:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=56607"},"modified":"2024-02-21T00:01:51","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T00:01:51","slug":"haley-faces-last-stand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=56607","title":{"rendered":"Haley faces last stand"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Nikki Haley is facing a potential last stand in South Carolina, where she once served as governor and where she appears to be headed for a drubbing by an individual who has no business running for &#8212; let alone occupying &#8212; the presidency of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Haley says she isn&#8217;t quitting, regardless of where she ends up when the votes are counted Saturday. She&#8217;ll continue to battle the GOP frontrunner all the way to the finish, she said.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll see about that.<\/p>\n<p>The former POTUS is facing a court date in March. Another one might loom soon after that one. Then there might be a major court battle for the former Liar in Chief to wage. That&#8217;s the one alleging that he instigated a hostile takeover attempt of the government, by blocking the counting of 2020 electoral votes that determined that Joe Biden had been elected president.<\/p>\n<p>The former POTUS has been living the Big Lie since Biden defeated him. He has been convicted of sexually assaulting an author, been levied fines totaling nearly a half-billion dollars. There&#8217;s more to come.<\/p>\n<p>Still, he&#8217;s the GOP frontrunner in a contest where character no longer matters.<\/p>\n<p>He leads Haley by 20-something or nearly 30 percentage points. How the former governor justifies staying in the race is a mystery.<\/p>\n<p>She said she&#8217;s in it for the duration. It might be that she cannot stomach the idea of remaining faithful to the pledge she made to support the GOP nominee if it isn&#8217;t her.<\/p>\n<p>Time is about to tell us the truth about that pledge &#8230; and whether Nikki Haley is in it for keeps.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nikki Haley is facing a potential last stand in South Carolina, where she once served as governor and where she appears to be headed for a drubbing by an individual who has no business running for &#8212; let alone occupying &#8212; the presidency of the United States. Haley says she isn&#8217;t quitting, regardless of where &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=56607\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Haley faces last stand<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[1941,7419,3313,5956],"class_list":["post-56607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-gop","tag-maga","tag-nikki-haley","tag-sc-primary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56607"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56609,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56607\/revisions\/56609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}