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Nikki Haley Tried to Save the Republican Party

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But the Republican Party isn’t with Haley, it’s with Trump.

And there are some early indications she might end up returning to him after all of this.

As she said when withdrawing: “It is now up to Donald Trump to earn the votes of those in our party, and beyond it, who did not support him. And I hope he does that.”

And I asked her campaign on Wednesday morning if there was a world in which she could eventually endorse him, and, alas, they implied that there was.

It’s disappointing, but predictable and probably politically smart if she wants a future in today’s GOP — there’s simply no surviving outside of Trump’s orbit.

So now we must accept that Trump will be the nominee and is still the standard bearer for the Republican Party, and everything that brings with it.

 

But for a brief, fleeting moment, there was the promise of Nikki Haley.

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(S.E. Cupp is the host of "S.E. Cupp Unfiltered" on CNN.)

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