{"id":16328,"date":"2024-03-02T12:48:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-02T12:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/02\/nikki-haley-gains-endorsements-from-moderate-gop-senators-amid-uphill-primary-battle\/"},"modified":"2024-03-02T12:48:00","modified_gmt":"2024-03-02T12:48:00","slug":"nikki-haley-gains-endorsements-from-moderate-gop-senators-amid-uphill-primary-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/02\/nikki-haley-gains-endorsements-from-moderate-gop-senators-amid-uphill-primary-battle\/","title":{"rendered":"Nikki Haley gains endorsements from moderate GOP senators amid uphill primary battle"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div class=\"paywall has-gated-overlay gated-article-body\">\n<p class=\"speakable\">Nikki Haley on Friday received endorsements from two of the GOP\u2019s most moderate senators in Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Collins, who previously voted to convict then-President Trump in his impeachment trial in which he was acquitted, revealed Friday that she voted for Haley in Maine\u2019s primary this week, calling her\u00a0\u2018extremely well-qualified.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u2018She has the energy, intellect, and temperament that we need to lead our country in these very tumultuous times,\u2019 she said, according to the Bangor Daily News.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, Murkowski also threw her support behind the former South Carolina governor, saying she was \u2018proud\u2019 to endorse her.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Collins and Murkowski are the only senators to endorse Haley as the rest of the party has coalesced behind Trump, including South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott, from Haley\u2019s home state.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2018We need a president who sees Americans as one American family, and that\u2019s why I came to the very warm state of New Hampshire to endorse the next president of the United States, President Donald Trump,\u2019 Scott said in January.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Haley has yet to win a primary or caucus, having most recently lost South Carolina 39% to Trump\u2019s 59%.<\/p>\n<p>Still, the 52-year-old has refused to drop out of the race, insisting Republicans need another option besides Trump.<\/p>\n<p>She also claimed last week that Trump would not be able to beat President Biden in the general election. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Donald Trump will not win the general election. You can have him win any primary you want, he will not win a general election,\u2019 she told CNN last Friday. \u2018We will have a female President of the United States: It will either be me or it will be Kamala Harris. But if Donald Trump is the nominee, you can mark my words, he will not win a general election.\u2019<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>This post appeared first on FOX NEWS<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nikki Haley on Friday received endorsements from two of the GOP\u2019s most moderate senators in Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska.\u00a0 Collins, who previously voted to convict then-President Trump in his impeachment trial in which he was acquitted, revealed Friday that she voted for Haley in Maine\u2019s primary this week, calling her\u00a0\u2018extremely well-qualified.\u2019 \u2018She <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":16329,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16328","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}