The DeSantis campaign is imploding. The most recent admission from the team managing DeSantis was their shifted goalposts for a second place in Iowa. Additionally, there is now friction between Ron DeSantis and Jeff Roe (head of Never Back Down PAC), if the inside campaign leakers are to be believed.
There is an element of total understanding to the frustration about the bitter pill DeSantis is being forced to swallow. I mean, think about it, the management of Ron DeSantis didn’t just posit the 2024 campaign in the last year, this has been a long thought-out strategy going back much further. In retrospect, the DeSantis ’24 operation tracks to sometime in 2018; at least that’s when DeSantis had to give some formal nod of willingness.
Now, Ron DeSantis has to watch as Nikki Haley is shifted into his lane by the professional apparatus that controls the lane alignments. Ron can’t win, that is transparently obvious, and he is now being bumped down in priority as the financial control people start to push Nikki Haley. Seeing this must be driving Ms. Casey bananas.
CNN ran a puff piece on Nikki Haley recently, along with a poll showing that only she could defeat Joe Biden.
Before laughing, it’s wise to remember what CNN represents in the game of political media. CNN is the official state media of the U.S. State Dept. Nikki Haley was former UN ambassador and aligns with the worldview of the CNN control room and executive offices.
Haley is an empty vessel. She has no true positions of her own and uses the headlines and sentiment of the moment to determine her outlooks. This is why she previously said she would not run against Donald Trump, and said Bubba Wallace was a victim of horrible NASCAR racism. These might sound disconnected but remember, at the time each statement was made – these were shallow public opinion constructs, not core beliefs. Nikki Haley has no core values; she is a consultant’s dream candidate who will morph to the positions of the handlers.
ABC is now coming out with another puff piece to support Haley, in a boost to the narrative started by CNN.
[…] A FiveThirtyEight/Washington Post/Ipsos survey of likely Republican voters, taken before and after the primary debate, also showed Haley gaining ground: She was ranked as doing the third best, behind only Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and businessman Vivek Ramaswamy — but fewer people also said she did the worst.
“What you saw on the debate stage is what I’ve done my entire life: I speak hard truths,” Haley said afterward during a Parents for Nikki Town Hall in Manchester, New Hampshire. (more)
“Hard Truth” Example 
I’m not sure how far the professional political class will try to push Haley, but it will fail miserably – perhaps even worse than DeSantis, although that is quite a downward slope to exceed. Nikki Haley, more akin to Mitt Romney in a skirt, is perhaps the least authentic person in the campaign, next to Ron DeSantis.
I’m not going to go too deep on this effort yet, because quite frankly I have written so much about Nikki Haley and what should be expected, that I just end up repeating myself. However, I’m going to link to two previous articles below that I would suggest you re-review. One was written FIVE YEARS AGO, predicting this 2024 moment, the other was written four years ago as a supplement and follow up.
If there was ever an easy candidate to predict, that would be Nikki Haley. Read the prior articles and you will see exactly what I mean.
[This written in 2018] – [This written in 2019]
Everything outlined in those articles, much of which was predicting this exact moment, is surfacing right now.
The Big Club and Bush group support Nikki Haley, that’s why we are seeing generous support from ABC and CNN. Yes, it really is that simple.
