Nikki Haley on the Issues — Yea, right.

Mike Weisser
4 min readNov 30, 2023

If you’re a confirmed Trump hater like me, or maybe still deciding whether you want to hate Trump, take a look at this video which shows Trump arriving at the South Carolina — Clemson football game to a cascade of boos.

I taught at Carolina from 1976 to 1980 and attended I don’t remember how many football games at the Stadium and the Clemon game was always when anyone who wanted to be noticed showed up.

I don’t recall anyone who was introduced to the crowd being booed. It just wasn’t done at the Williams-Bryce Stadium in those days.

Maybe things have changed in South Carolina and people aren’t as polite as they used to be, but I suspect that the reason Trump was greeted by a hostile crowd was because right now he’s not running against Joe Biden, he’s running against Nikki Haley whose popularity in the Palmetto State has already eliminated Tim Scott from the campaign and could soon eliminate Trump as well.

Back in March, when DeSantis was in striking distance of Trump, Haley was just one of a bunch of announced GOP candidates sitting at 3%. She’s now at 10%, will be rolling in money thanks to the Koch endorsement and should be the most serious challenger to Trump within another week.

I think the reason things are starting to solidify around Haley on the GOP side is due to…

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