Nimarata (Nikki) Randhawa (Haley) has departed the race for the Republican presidential nomination – was she ever really in it? – leaving a curious melange of statistics in her wake.
According to a writer for The Federalist, Virginia exit polling showed 92 percent of Randhawa/Haley voters approved of Joe Biden’s performance as president and a whopping 87 percent are just happy, thank you, with how things are going overall in this country.
This stands in stark contrast to a late February Gallup poll pegging Biden’s job approval rating among the general populace at a miserable 38 percent.
To reiterate, while the general population, generally split about 50-50 between Republicans and Democrats, gives Clueless Joe a 38 percent favorability rating, Randhawa/Haley’s supposedly Republican voters checked in at 92 percent thumbs up.
Open the window and you can smell the stench of this.
Obviously, Randhawa/Haley was just the latest attempt by Democrats to bastardize the primary process.
Ostensibly, primaries function to allow parties to select their candidates for general elections. But Democrats, where allowed and perhaps even in places where it is not, love to muddy the waters in Republican primaries by voting for the weakest candidate; the one they’d like most to run against in the big elections.
Beyond that, they love to keep RINO (Republicans In Name Only) candidates in races as long as possible to spew Democratic talking points and get coverage from the Lamestream media.
These reports typically go something like this: Cracks are evident in the Republican Party as (fill in the name) rips Donald Trump (or other conservative Republican candidate). It is a troubling sign for Republicans that (fill in the name) gets support (fill in the paltry percentage) at the expense of (fill in the name) and this indicates (fill in the name) needs to be conciliatory to (RINO thinking) and tone down his rhetoric.
It was thought that Randhawa/Haley would keep raising funds from major Democratic donors (those not buying Hunter’s art work with all their free cash) and keep flailing away at Trump with zero chance of gaining the nomination. Trump leads her, by NBC’s count, 1,507-92 in delegate totals.
But, perhaps even the Dems have given up and thrown in the towel, leaving Randhawa/Haley to fade into the background with fellow RINOs like, oh, say, Liz Cheney.
Even as Randhawa/Haley was making her final RINO charge on Super Tuesday, primary funny games were afoot in California.
The leftist Peoples Republic of California has a primary setup in which all candidates, regardless of party, are on the same ballot and the top two advance to the general election. This often means two Democrats competing.
But, come this fall, Democrat Adam Schiff is looking to ride his House of Representatives censure for lying there into a Senate seat by running against Republican Steve Garvey.
Schiff virtually handpicked Garvey to run against, spending millions to televise ads statewide portraying Garvey as a conservative and thereby uniting conservative support behind Garvey, who spent pennies on his campaign. Shifty Schiff strikes again.
Aggrieved Democratic candidates griped, but took it because it’s the Democratic way. They will get behind Schiff this fall, and not to plunge a knife in his back.
Remember these primary shenanigans the next time you hear Democrats pontificate about saving democracy.
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