What’s 'really working against' Nikki Haley: GOP strategist

Republican strategist, Brendan Buck, during Thursday's episode of MSNBC's All In With Chris Hayes, explained how Nikki Haley's reputation is holding her back from catching up to Donald Trump in the race to become the 2024 GOP nominee.

"Brendan, one of the things that is the question here is about Independents, and unaffiliated voters who can vote in the New Hampshire primary," Hayes said. "All of the polling suggests those folks are much more amenable to Haley than Trump. But Republicans are much more amenable to Trump, and this of course is not anything new. And New Hampshire has a wrinkle, because there might be a lot of Independent voters, but it is still, as DeSantis said, 'an uphill climb' to win a Republican primary, if you are not winning majority Republican voters."

Buck replied, "Yeah, that's exactly right. You have to be a conservative to win the primary. And I think Nikki Haley is certainly a conservative. The problem is, though, that she has developed a bit of a reputation as being a Never Trumper at this point. And that is really working against her, and her unfavorables are way higher than you would like to see. It's the catch 22, that any of these Republicans have. You need to go after your opponent, you need to go after Donald Trump if you're going to take him down, and you failed to do that. But if you do, like [ex-New Jersey governor and failed GOP candidate] Chris Christie did, you become wildly unpopular with a lot of Republicans. So there is no real good safe place to go. Now, ignoring him, I don't think that puts it on the right path. I think you will look back and say that was a big failure on all of their hearts. But just to be clear, there is no easy way to beat Donald Trump. He was probably always going to be the nominee, but they clearly didn't bring any game changing strategies that put that in question."

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