It would seem that MBD and I are interpreting the fight btw Haley and Scott the same way. Yup: in South Carolina, There Can Be Only One. It’s looking more and more like it will be Haley.
Whether this debate will have any campaign-changing effect or not can be distilled down to a single “Rorschach Test” question.
Does America like aggressive, feisty, playing-to-win Nikki Haley?
Hallow app commercial! Because we need to pray!
Rich, if or when Haley leaves the race, some South Carolina paper will run the headline, “CURTAINS FOR HALEY”
“Did you send them back?” … might be the worst comeback of the night
I think that incredibly confusing and existentially demoralizing confrontation between Scott and Haley is a sign that the pressure from donors to winnow the field is coming and they know it.
The entire Haley vs. Scott argument here, at the end, in chaos, is both (1) South Carolina agonistes (2) again just inscrutable sonically, nobody wants to hear this (3) proof that Haley is now moving aggressively not just to “show” in the win/place/show race, but actively eliminate the competition. Scott’s a lovely man, but Haley is correct to zero on him as a weak horse in this race.
Ay yay yay … Trump is lapping these guys and they think UN curtains is the fight worth fighting.
Some real South Carolina on South Carolina violence there as Tim Scott goes after Haley for State Department curtains and supporting gas tax, and she fights back.
It’s a South Carolina thing, I guess.