The surest sign yet that the GOP thinks Donald Trump is going to lose
If you want to know how an election is really going, just take a look at how each party is framing things with a week to go. If both parties are still talking publicly about how great it’s going for them, then it may mean that both candidates still have a good chance of winning. But if leading voices from one party are already publicly criticizing their own candidate’s strategy with a week still to go, it means they expect their candidate to lose, and they’re trying to get out ahead of it.
That’s why it matters that Nikki Haley went on Fox News today and trashed the Trump 2024 campaign for alienating minority voters and women voters. Haley is a horrible person, and she’s become irrelevant. But she’s now trying to throw Trump under the bus, not long after having reportedly offered to campaign for him, because she now expects him to lose. More to the point, she expects him to be humiliated in this election, to the point that the Republican Party is left with a lot of pieces to pick up.
Of course Haley is delusional for seeing herself as one of the Republicans who will pick up the pieces and contend in 2028. But the point is, she fully expects Trump to lose. In fact she’s so sure he’s going to lose, she’s out there bashing his strategy a week before the election, because she doesn’t want to go down with the ship. We’ll likely see more of this as the week goes on.
This election isn’t over – we have to keep working to try to run up the score – but Republican leaders sure seem to think it’s over. Advantage us.
