Haley's not winning, but her campaign for president shows where Trump is weak - The Boston Globe

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57% : "Everyone sees what's happening in Colorado since Trump was president," Haley said.
55% : Lindsay Pace, 39, a pharmacist from Richmond, Va., who attended a Haley event while visiting her mother in South Carolina, plans to vote for Haley when Virginians go to the polls for Super Tuesday next week.Pace, who said she is a Republican, voted for Trump in 2016, she said, but she thinks she will probably support Biden if there is a rematch in the fall.
52% : In the nearby city of Rochester Hills, which, like Bloomfield Hills, backed Trump in 2016 and then Biden in 2020, Debra Puvogel, a retiree and an independent voter, said she was voting for Biden even though she wasn't excited about it.
51% : And it is here that Haley posted one of her better countywide showings in the state, carrying 34 percent of the vote, the latest datapoint showing Trump lagging with affluent and often college-educated voters in some pivotal areas of the country.
49% : "Indeed, the Michigan polls were full of Republicans more excited than ever to vote for Trump.
48% : It's part of Oakland County, where Biden beat Trump by 14 percentage points that year, up from the 8 percentage points by which Hillary Clinton led Trump in 2016.
42% : "Her performance in the primary so far shows that millions of Republicans are resistant to Donald Trump and his message.
42% : Some of the Democratic voters in Michigan illustrated another possible vulnerability for Trump: How motivating he is to the other side.
40% : In interviews in several early primary states, some Haley voters showed a deep aversion to coming home to Trump in the fall.
40% : In fact, earlier this year, Trump said anyone who donated to Haley would be "permanently barred" from his Make America Great Again movement -- a threat she immediately printed on a T-shirt and made central to her campaign.
38% : Bloomfield Hills, a well-heeled Detroit suburb -- and home to the tony Cranbrook School where Republican Senator Mitt Romney of Utah was educated -- backed Trump in 2016 before narrowly supporting Biden in 2020.
38% : He is mulling supporting Trump in the fall, but might just skip the presidential election altogether.
36% : She had voted for Trump in 2016, she said, but no more.
33% : "Trump and his campaign have done almost nothing to reach out to these voters.
32% : But he might need it to beat Biden in the fall -- and Haley's extant challenge is laying bare nagging reservations about the former president among independents and moderate Republicans in some of the very same places that cost Trump reelection in 2020.
30% : Campaigning this week in Denver, she pointed out how Republicans running statewide have struggled since Trump became president.
28% : Exit polls from South Carolina and New Hampshire showed Haley outperforming Trump among college graduates and voters who identified themselves as independents.
28% : Blase Keating, a sales professional from Troy, cast a vote for the former president alongside his wife and one of his daughters to stop the "two-tier justice system" he said was persecuting Trump, as well as corruption in the federal government.
27% : "Trump did not need Johnson's vote to post a decisive rout over Haley in Michigan.
25% : And in Bloomfield Hills, Lori Stillwagon, voted for Trump because of the "border invasion," and urged Haley to drop out of the race.
24% : She narrowly beat Trump among voters earning more than $100,000 annually in New Hampshire, and narrowly lost among that group in South Carolina.
23% : "Trump's campaign says Haley gives him nothing to worry about."Republican voters have delivered resounding wins for President Trump in every single primary contest and this race is over," said Steven Cheung, a campaign spokesman.
15% : But with Trump and President Biden steaming toward a November rematch, Johnson isn't sure what he's going to do in the fall.

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