What kind of future does Nikki Haley have in a Donald Trump dominated Republican Party?
Nikki Haley made it clear when she exited the Republican presidential nomination race earlier this week that she intends to keep speaking out.
"While I will no longer be a candidate, I will not stop using my voice for the things I believe in," Haley emphasized as she announced on Wednesday that she was suspending her White House campaign after former President Donald Trump swept 14 of 15 GOP nominating contests on Super Tuesday.
Haley also made clear this week that a third-party run on a potential No Labels presidential ticket was not in the cards.
"What I will tell you is I’m a conservative Republican. I have said many, many times, I would not run as an independent. I would not run as No Labels because I am a Republican, and that’s who I’ve always been," she reiterated in a "Fox and Friends" interview.
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But how much of a voice she has among Republicans and what kind of future she has in the GOP depends very much on Trump, who has dominated the party since he first won the White House eight years ago.
The former two-term South Carolina governor who later served as U.N. ambassador in the Trump administration 13 months ago became the first major candidate to challenge Trump for the 2024 nomination. And before she dropped out, she was the last rival standing.
Haley, who had turned up the volume on the former president over the past six weeks, refused to endorse Trump as she bowed out of the race.
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And Haley, who captured a quarter to over a third of the vote in a handful of the Republican contests after scoring 43% in New Hampshire's late January primary, highlighted that "it is now up to Donald