How Nikki Haley's 2024 campaign against Trump echoes her drive to stop him in 2016

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : "Trump went on to win the 2016 South Carolina primary later that week, beating Rubio by 10 points and cementing his front-runner status.
52% : She accepted a position in Trump's Cabinet as ambassador to the United Nations just weeks after he was elected, serving for two years after resigning as governor.
45% : In January, Scott endorsed Trump over Haley, who appointed him to his Senate seat.
42% : ""Both of them are tied up in investigations and all they do is talk about themselves," she said of Trump and Biden on Feb. 7 in Charleston.
30% : "Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.
27% : It's a theme she has hit hard recently, saying definitively that "Donald Trump can't win.
25% : "How many more times do we have to lose until we start to say maybe he's the problem?"Eight years ago, Haley made a similar case -- but Trump didn't have a campaign record to go on at that point, so she based it on Trump's business ventures.
24% : Eight years ago at that rally in Atlanta, Haley was also noting investigations into Trump -- and into eventual Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.
23% : And while much has changed in politics and the Republican Party since then, a look at her speeches introducing Rubio shows just how similar her argument against Trump is now as it was then, before he became the figure that redefined the GOP.
22% : As Nikki Haley barnstorms South Carolina in an effort to prevent Donald Trump from being the Republican Party's presidential nominee, she's retracing some of her footsteps from eight years ago -- and reusing a lot of the same language.
21% : "On her current campaign, Haley recently began tying Trump to President Joe Biden on issues like age, mental acuity and the fact that both are "tied up in investigations.
16% : "Earlier in that Atlanta rally for Rubio, she used the word "bully" to describe Donald Trump, saying: "I told my two little ones to do exactly what Marco Rubio did in the last debate -- when a bully hits you, you hit that bully right back.
12% : But in the two campaigns on either side of 2020, Haley made the case that Trump had a losing streak that created a general election risk for the GOP.

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