Americans For Prosperity and Nikki Haley Should Blame Themselves for Donald Trump

Nov 28, 2023 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    -74% Very Liberal

  • Reliability

    80% ReliableGood

  • Policy Leaning

    10% Center

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Bias Score Analysis

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"But on Tuesday she notched another symbolic win: an endorsement from Americans For Prosperity Action, the Koch-founded network that promises to put money and muscle behind her candidacy."
Positive
26% Conservative
"She's one of the most openly hawkish GOP candidates, opposing the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan and favoring tougher moves against Iran; AFP backs neither."
Negative
-28% Liberal
"Action promised a big campaign to block Trump; it stumbled along the way, unable to choose an alternative, and seven weeks before actual voters begin to actually vote, it endorses a woman ruing in third place behind Trump and DeSantis nationally."
Negative
-50% Liberal
"I'll admit, part of me would enjoy Trump and Haley going head to head."
Positive
52% Conservative
"I'll admit, part of me would enjoy Trump and Haley going head to head."
Positive
52% Conservative
"Congratulations to Donald Trump on securing the Koch endorsement, campaign operative Andrew Romeo tweeted."
Positive
36% Conservative
"Apparently, it's Nikki Haley time."
Positive
24% Conservative
"DeSantis, polling well back then, had powerful backers, and Senator Tim Scott, who recently left the race, attracted major donor interest."
Positive
24% Conservative
"DeSantis, polling well back then, had powerful backers, and Senator Tim Scott, who recently left the race, attracted major donor interest."
Positive
24% Conservative
"They'd be great fun on a debate stage - she's a savage debater, and watching a woman of color take down Trump would be delightful - but Trump refuses to debate his rivals."
Positive
14% Conservative
"They'd be great fun on a debate stage - she's a savage debater, and watching a woman of color take down Trump would be delightful - but Trump refuses to debate his rivals."
Positive
14% Conservative
"But she trails both men in Iowa, where DeSantis, especially, has invested time and money."
Positive
10% Conservative
"Every dollar spent on Nikki Haley's candidacy should be reported as an in-kind to the Trump campaign."
Positive
10% Conservative
"Every dollar spent on Nikki Haley's candidacy should be reported as an in-kind to the Trump campaign."
Positive
10% Conservative
"It's surprising the DeSantis crew has time to spitball other campaigns when their own is in turmoil."
Positive
2% Conservative
"The former South Carolina governor has surged in polling and fundraising over the last few months, to surpass Florida Governor Ron DeSantis as the second place choice in some early states in the Republican presidential primary."
Positive
0% Conservative
"It seems Haley's recent polling surge determined the group's move: An AFP poll shows her at 25 percent in New Hampshire, behind Trump's 40 percent but more than twice DeSantis's share of 9 percent."
Positive
0% Conservative
"Promise made; promise kept; Trump almost certainly the nominee anyway."
Negative
-4% Liberal
"Fourteen years later, the group is unlikely to put $30 million behind Nikki Haley - who was herself a Tea Party-backed underdog when she was elected governor."
Negative
-6% Liberal
"In February, AFP promised to spend heavily to keep Trump from wiing the 2024 GOP nomination, its first foray into presidential politics."
Negative
-8% Liberal
"She even trails Trump, badly, in her home state of South Carolina, although Scott's departure from the race could help her there."
Negative
-10% Liberal
"Even if it does, it won't counteract the damage done by nurturing the reactionary forces that helped Trump take over the party."
Negative
-12% Liberal
"Haley is not an obvious choice for AFP."
Negative
-14% Liberal
"It feels like another exercise in political delusion: a powerful mainstream Republican force pretending Trump doesn't control the party."
Negative
-16% Liberal
"She's still way behind Donald Trump, the man she served as United Nations ambassador."
Negative
-18% Liberal
"It's the same phenomenon as 2016, Garaghty writes: ego, arrogance, and unrealistic hopes of some miraculous turnaround are keeping multiple non-Trump candidates in the race and, in some cases, attacking each other, instead of making the case for someone besides Trump to be the nominee."
Negative
-18% Liberal
"Our internal polling confirms what our activists are hearing and seeing from voters in the early primary states: Nikki Haley is in the best position to defeat Donald Trump in the primaries, the group said in a statement."
Negative
-20% Liberal
"Our internal polling confirms what our activists are hearing and seeing from voters in the early primary states: Nikki Haley is in the best position to defeat Donald Trump in the primaries, the group said in a statement."
Negative
-20% Liberal
"Haley, too, has tried to have it every which way on that issue, opposing a national 15-week abortion ban as too divisive for the nation but saying she'd sign a six-week abortion ban if she were still South Carolina governor."
Negative
-22% Liberal
"No one has a stronger record of beating the establishment than Ron DeSantis, and this time will be no different."
Negative
-24% Liberal
"The conservative National Review's Jim Garaghty thinks AFP Action's move means very little, since it's not enough to drive DeSantis out of the race, or former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie either."
Negative
-28% Liberal
"However, it's unlikely that policy matters much to GOP primary voters, since Trump gets away with flip-flopping, name-calling and braggadocio, saying whatever he needs to on supposedly central issues like abortion."
Negative
-30% Liberal
"Trump's racist, misogynist base seems unlikely to go for a woman of any color."
Negative
-30% Liberal
"The head of one of its PACs departed acrimoniously this week and some campaign staffers are saying nastier things about one another than about Haley or Trump."
Negative
-38% Liberal
"The head of one of its PACs departed acrimoniously this week and some campaign staffers are saying nastier things about one another than about Haley or Trump."
Negative
-38% Liberal
"Worst yet, AFP deserves part of the blame for Trump taking over its party."
Negative
-38% Liberal
"In fact, Trump personified the racism inseparable from the Tea Party revolt; he came to real political power by preaching the birther lie that Obama wasn't born here and wasn't a legitimate president."
Positive
2% Conservative
"In fact, Trump personified the racism inseparable from the Tea Party revolt; he came to real political power by preaching the birther lie that Obama wasn't born here and wasn't a legitimate president."
Positive
2% Conservative
"AFP and Haley brought this nightmare on themselves, and on the rest of us."
Negative
-44% Liberal
"While AFP says it will deploy the largest grassroots operation in the country and a presence in all fifty states behind Haley, it's hard to imagine her beating Trump."
Negative
-46% Liberal
"While AFP says it will deploy the largest grassroots operation in the country and a presence in all fifty states behind Haley, it's hard to imagine her beating Trump."
Negative
-46% Liberal
"Action promised a big campaign to block Trump; it stumbled along the way, unable to choose an alternative, and seven weeks before actual voters begin to actually vote, it endorses a woman ruing in third place behind Trump and DeSantis nationally."
Negative
-38% Liberal
"Action promised a big campaign to block Trump; it stumbled along the way, unable to choose an alternative, and seven weeks before actual voters begin to actually vote, it endorses a woman ruing in third place behind Trump and DeSantis nationally."
Negative
-38% Liberal
"Indeed, the DeSantis campaign is taking cheap shots at Haley and the AFP."
Negative
-52% Liberal
"Indeed, the DeSantis campaign is taking cheap shots at Haley and the AFP."
Negative
-52% Liberal
"And Haley still refuses to do what only Christie has to date: condemn Trump's criminality and unfitness for office."
Negative
-58% Liberal
"And Haley still refuses to do what only Christie has to date: condemn Trump's criminality and unfitness for office."
Negative
-58% Liberal

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

63% : But on Tuesday she notched another symbolic win: an endorsement from Americans For Prosperity Action, the Koch-founded network that promises to put money and muscle behind her candidacy.
36% : She's one of the most openly hawkish GOP candidates, opposing the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan and favoring tougher moves against Iran; AFP backs neither.
25% : Action promised a big campaign to block Trump; it stumbled along the way, unable to choose an alternative, and seven weeks before actual voters begin to actually vote, it endorses a woman running in third place behind Trump and DeSantis nationally.

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