A Time for ‘Cold, Calculating, Unimpassioned Reason’
Startling polls are beginning to emerge from the hustings, where CNN reckons Governor Haley is the only Republican who, in a hypothetical matchup, is preferred over President Biden.
One explanation for Governor Haley’s recent jump in the GOP primary polls is the common sense of the ex-envoy to the UN in respect of President Trump’s electability. At the Milwaukee debate she pointed out that “three quarters of Americans don’t want a rematch between Trump and Biden.” She urged Republicans “to face the fact that Trump is the most disliked politician in America” and declared, “We can’t win a general election that way.”
It’s not our intention here to endorse President Trump or Ms. Haley. It is but to observe the sentiments that are surfacing in recent polls. CNN finds that, among the GOP field, only Mrs. Haley is preferred over President Biden in a hypothetical matchup. Some 49 percent would back Mrs. Haley, CNN reports, versus 43 percent for Mr. Biden. The other GOP candidates, including Mr. Trump, fell within the poll’s margin of error against Mr. Biden.
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