Haley Pins GOP Loss in N.Y. Special Election
on Trump, Urges Party to ‘Wake Up’
National Review,
by
James Lynch
Original Article
Posted By: Dreadnought,
2/14/2024 9:05:48 AM
Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley blamed former president Donald Trump for Republican Mazi Melesa Pilip’s loss to Democrat Tom Suozzi in the special election for George Santos’s former Long Island House seat.
Echoing the case they’ve made for their own candidate in the GOP presidential primary, Haley’s campaign argued in a Tuesday night statement that Trump’s brand is toxic among moderates in purple areas like New York’s third district and will continue to weigh down Republicans.
“Let’s just say the quiet part out loud. Donald Trump continues to be a huge weight against Republican candidates.
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Yeah, running a pro-abortion liberal as a Republican is super-maga.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
jar 2/14/2024 9:11:47 AM (No. 1657536)
Wasn't the Republican candidate anti-Trump? She speaks with a sometimes hard to understand foreign accent, whereas Suozzi has name recognition. If I'm not mistaken, he used to be the Nassau County Executive. Plus the snowstorm didn't help voter turnout. Nicki Haley is really reaching to blame Trump.
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Put a sock in it,Nikki! It's New York and Mazi is a RINO at best.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
clayusmcret 2/14/2024 9:24:17 AM (No. 1657546)
Santos won in a democrat district. When the republicans kicked him out for not being gentlemanly enough (can't have that secure vote!), Surprise!! The democrat he beat won it back. Of note, the wife and I were listening to a news article that talked about both candidates. At the end of the article, we couldn't figure out which one was the republican and which one was the democrat. Sounds like the voters had the same problem and went with the familiar sounding name.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Jesuslover54 2/14/2024 9:30:27 AM (No. 1657549)
The skinny Indian chick should take a hike.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Venturer 2/14/2024 9:30:48 AM (No. 1657550)
There wouldn't have been an election if the stupid republicans hadn't of removed Santos.
So he lied. Show me one politicians that doesn.t including Nicki.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
wilarrbie 2/14/2024 9:36:01 AM (No. 1657554)
Nope. Not Trump. Lookin' at RNC for not vetting out bad candidates. Did they support Santos? He leaves a rancid odor - why would voters in a Dem district trust us again? Hell, I don't trust us either. And Nikki - speaking of rancid odors ...
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Twinkle93 2/14/2024 9:41:19 AM (No. 1657559)
All you need to know is all the billionaires that are supporting Nikki.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
mizzmac 2/14/2024 9:42:26 AM (No. 1657563)
What is she getting (and from whom) to stay in and get embarrassed by "none of the above"? Can't figure out what the payoff is for that kind of public humiliation.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
smokincol 2/14/2024 9:47:48 AM (No. 1657566)
well, fiery lips haley is really pushing the gas pedal to the floor in her senescence from Republican to demcommie but it will explode in her face because she is trying to stop a Tsunami with a teaspoon
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
daisey 2/14/2024 9:52:30 AM (No. 1657569)
Dang but she’s starting to really get on my nerves. She’s hoping Trump ends up incarcerated and she’ll swoop in and get the nomination. Sorry, Nikki, but no way I’ll ever vote for you.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Moritz55 2/14/2024 9:56:49 AM (No. 1657574)
I hate to say this, but more and more Nikki is coming across like Liz Cheney
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Beardo 2/14/2024 9:58:27 AM (No. 1657577)
Who believes anything in National Review. Listen to Trump instead:
"Todd Starnes
Dems Flip NY House Seat After GOP Ran an Anti-Trump, Pro-Choice Candidate
SMG News Wire
February 13, 2024
Credit: mark reinstein/Shutterstock
The congressional seat previously held by ex-Rep. George Santos (R-NY) has been flipped. And there’s no one to blame but the Republican Party.
Former Democratic Rep. Tom Suozzi has won a closely watched special election for a vacant House seat once held by Santos, who was expelled from the chamber in December.
The Associated Press projected that Suozzi would defeat Republican county lawmaker Mazi Pilip, to win back his old job.
“Who knows what she really stands for? She’s George Santos 2.0. It’s the exact same nontransparent, phony baloney, just trying to get votes instead of saying what you really think,” Suozzi charged on the eve of the election.
Pilip had distanced herself from the former president through much of the campaign, but later admitted she had voted for him in 2020. She also hedged on whether she was pro-life.
“There’s two Democrats on the ballot, and the option is do we get a Democrat or a Democrat-Republican-lite version of a Democrat,” Santos told CNN as the reason for his not voting. “I will not bring myself to vote for a registered Democrat, period. It’s just against what I believe in.”
President Trump issued a scathing rebuke of Pilip and the Republican party
Republicans just don’t learn, but maybe she was still a Democrat? I have an almost 99% Endorsement Success Rate in Primaries, and a very good number in the General Elections, as well, but just watched this very foolish woman, Mazi Melesa Pilip, running in a race where she didn’t endorse me and tried to “straddle the fence,” when she would have easily WON if she understood anything about MODERN DAY politics in America. MAGA, WHICH IS MOST OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY, STAYED HOME – AND IT ALWAYS WILL, UNLESS IT IS TREATED WITH THE RESPECT THAT IT DESERVES. I STAYED OUT OF THE RACE, “I WANT TO BE LOVED!” GIVE US A REAL CANDIDATE IN THE DISTRICT FOR NOVEMBER. SUOZZI, I KNOW HIM WELL, CAN BE EASILY BEATEN!"
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Red Ghost 2/14/2024 9:58:40 AM (No. 1657578)
Right on cue Nikki Haley, a craven, spinless, feckless shrew, continues to divide our party and our country. No Nikki, Trump didn't lose this election. Rhinos like you, rhinos who ousted George Santos, weakening an already razor thin House majority lost the election and the seat. And for what? Now that George Santos is unemployed, what did it get republican voters? Heck, what did it get the country? And you know what Nikki? Republicans deserve to lose that seat. But like everything else in NYS I firmly believe, once again, this election was stolen by the same democrats whose money you Nikki, are happily lapping up.
Omar, Talib, Cori whatever her name is, AOC, and other terrorists, Menendez sitting at home with the wife playing with his ill gotten gold bars, Blumenthal, the senator from Connecticut LYING about being in Viet Nam, and Biden and his family, so thoroughly corrupt that we know he and they sold out the United States of America to China, Russia, Iran and others for millions of dollars, for filthy lucre. Do democrats EVER even suggest that these people be removed from office because they are not only liars, but threats to our country? NO! NEVER!
Democrats know that the only thing that matters is winning, holding power and and using their power to continue to crush our once great Republic. Yeah, republicans deserve to lose and lose they will with shrews like you.
Sorry for the rant.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Strike3 2/14/2024 10:08:30 AM (No. 1657587)
That's why Trump is fifty points ahead of you, Nimarata.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Quigley 2/14/2024 10:14:51 AM (No. 1657592)
Nikki says: you all need to change your opinions so that they are the same as mine.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
jeffkinnh 2/14/2024 10:31:42 AM (No. 1657600)
I would agree that there are some wobbly RINO "republicans" that don't realize that we have to fight for what we believe in. Trump fights and wins but these people don't like it that he is "harsh" with the dems. They would rather be nice losers. So yes, there are some voters that may peal off from Trump. But there are a MAJORITY of Republican voters who will peal off from Nikki and hand the win to the dems.
Meanwhile, Trump is pulling in votes from independents and minorities that are finally seeing through dem games.
No thanks to Nikki. South Carolina has Trump up over Nikki 65 to 23. Think she will wise up after getting trashed in SC?
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
ThreeBadCats3 2/14/2024 10:36:35 AM (No. 1657605)
Sounds like most commenting started out not liking Nikki particularly and it has been downhill since. My sentiments also.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Californian 2/14/2024 10:37:44 AM (No. 1657606)
And she's toxic literally everywhere.
Coming from someone who lost to "none of the above", she's in no place to tell anyone how the election will turn out or who voters want.
She should have dropped out immediately. Her loss was humiliating but her narcissism makes Trump look humble.
Nikki, quit.
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The only role Trump played in this race was {ilip's statement that she wouldn't support him if one of the lawfare prosecutions of Trump was successful. That statement obviously didn't do her any good Haley is now just throwing things against the wall in hopes that they stick -- and what's left of National Review is delighted to publish it.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
snowoutlaw 2/14/2024 10:48:50 AM (No. 1657611)
Look, the voters gave the Republican party a chance and all the Republicans did was reject their choice so why vote for them again?
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
oldmagnolia 2/14/2024 10:50:36 AM (No. 1657615)
Nimrata has lost it. She is consumed by hate. Look at her face.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
richdet 2/14/2024 10:59:26 AM (No. 1657621)
See the George Santos quote cited in #13: “There’s two Democrats on the ballot.”
That seems literally to have been the case. Per Laura Loomer, who is very reliable as a researcher, Pilip is a registered Democrat with no plan to switch to Republican. That being so, her disinclination to support the front-runner of her alleged “party,” Donald Trump, is less surprising. And having learned this, I wondered who exactly was she going to caucus with? Is there a House rule covering party registration?
So at minimum Ronna Romney McDanel or the RNC or the NY GOP, or all of the above, did a lousy job of vetting.
Or did they? RINOs used to find it necessary to at least posture as a Republican to win elections, the Trojan Horse strategy. Pilip represents something new – a Democrat openly competing for a Republican seat seemingly with the blessing of the state and national Republicans.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
pinger 2/14/2024 11:00:03 AM (No. 1657622)
I am not sure if President Trump should be calling Haley a birdbrain, but she seems to be proving his point.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 2/14/2024 11:06:25 AM (No. 1657626)
Scream louder.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
Starboard_side 2/14/2024 11:10:08 AM (No. 1657630)
#1, New York had legal abortion even prior to Roe, so it's not uncommon for any candidate to be supportive or just not an issue since it's been legal there for well over 50 years.
And, you are likely going to need more liberal-leaning candidates in places like the Northeast than you may find in other parts of the country too.
No one needs to be pure on 100% of everyone's issues, just ensure Republicans are elected to have the Majority to make policy.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
mean Gene 2/14/2024 11:19:00 AM (No. 1657642)
Nikki, the uniparty won, as both candidates were members of it.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
Toodles3956 2/14/2024 11:31:01 AM (No. 1657650)
You should be born in U S A to serve in Senate or House. No women! For Heavens sake, look around!
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
Robert Jones 2/14/2024 11:31:37 AM (No. 1657652)
Republicans just don't get it. "The stupid party" says it all. The Supreme Court did not outlaw abortion! All they said is that it was up to the states. The states can do what they want. The court was just against with the federal government passing a law mandating abortion legality. Some states may say it is OK and some may not. Let the people decide. Abortion should not be an issue.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
Birddog 2/14/2024 11:32:10 AM (No. 1657654)
Did Haley show up in the district, do campaign appearances with Mazi? Pay for campaign adverts? Donate money? Do phone calls/GOTV?
Did Haley send some staff to help out?
Dems sent money, sent staff, bought airtime, hired "Professional" GOTV agents. Mobilized their whole "Machine"
Mazi said she had nothing to do with Trump, so Trump said he'd have nothing to do with Mazi, now Haley says the loss is Trumps fault?
Truth is...the only way Haley can even get a mention from the "Press" is when/if she bashes Trump in some fashion, 70% of her minuscule votes received so far are from Democrats switching briefly to vote against Trump, they brag about it, and that they will be voting Dem in every other race.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
justavoter 2/14/2024 11:50:43 AM (No. 1657662)
I don’t recall any stories of Nikki campaigning or endorsing Pilip
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 2/14/2024 12:01:58 PM (No. 1657669)
You're a non-Native American INDIAN whose background makes you Constitutionally UNQUALIFIED to be POTUS.
Shut up and go open a convenience store.
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This woman gets more tiresome every time she opens her mouth. Is she competing with Beltway Liz for the title of Most Annoying?
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Beltway Liz Cheney, to be clear
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
PrayerWarrior 2/14/2024 12:30:29 PM (No. 1657685)
Nikki, you're sounding like a demonrat more and more every day! Go home, wherever that is.
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
Jethro bo 2/14/2024 12:43:52 PM (No. 1657690)
I feel like Dan Aykroyd on SNL. Nikki, you ignorant slug! The GOO is to blame for NY Special election loss. Had the GOP done the right thing for America and not the right thing for Democrats, the GOP would have kept DesSantos anklet his voters decide in Nov. Once the GOP abandoned those voters that put a Rebublican in office, why trust the GOP again?
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Reply 37 - Posted by:
john56 2/14/2024 1:33:54 PM (No. 1657731)
Did Ms Haley ever bother to show up in the district to campaign for the Republican?
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Reply 38 - Posted by:
thekidsmom66 2/14/2024 1:43:36 PM (No. 1657737)
I'm beginning to think she's hoping to win the Dem nomination if Biden gets the boot....
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Reply 39 - Posted by:
broken01 2/14/2024 2:08:44 PM (No. 1657767)
I don't know about anyone else, but I can't wait for the SC primary in 10 days' time. It will be so sweet when this backstabbing, shrill, arrogant, lying harpy gets beaten like a drum in her home state.
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Reply 40 - Posted by:
ussjimmycarter 2/14/2024 2:45:11 PM (No. 1657798)
Niki Two Lovers needs to go back to private life! Hubby is overseas…just sayin! Nicki 5 Lovers possibly?
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Reply 41 - Posted by:
govlawyer 2/14/2024 4:30:22 PM (No. 1657862)
Actually #32 (and others), she's not an Indian, she's an Ethiopian Jew whose parents emigrated to Israel, so a convenience store is probably not in her future. That having been said, the County GOP leader who is a Never-Trumper got the candidate he wanted and the victory to Suozzi was never in doubt. The Nassau GOP is a pathetic shadow of its former self (Joe Margiotta is spinning in his grave).
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Haley is a warmonger. Trump has been the best President in my lifetime.
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Reply 43 - Posted by:
JimBob 2/14/2024 6:00:53 PM (No. 1657927)
Sounds like the GOP 'Establishment' put up a garbage candidate and got beat..... again.
It seems to me that Nimarata (that's her real first name) is in the race to do her Democ'RAT financial backer's bidding.... which is just to make trouble for Donald Trump. She clearly has no chance of winning the nomination.
SO MANY good comments here! #13 and #14 especially!
L-Dotters are the Best!
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Reply 44 - Posted by:
udanja99 2/14/2024 6:02:04 PM (No. 1657928)
I blame it on House Republicans who booted Santos out for a small fraction of what Pedo Joe has been doing for 50 years. And then there’s Menendez in the Senate.
On February 24 I will do my part to send Haley back to her new mansion on Kiawah Island.
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Reply 45 - Posted by:
rochow 2/14/2024 9:31:58 PM (No. 1658040)
Haley you don't know NY or NY'ers. So shut up and work on your speech when you get trounced in your state.
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Reply 46 - Posted by:
judy 2/14/2024 10:40:17 PM (No. 1658059)
Mazi was anti Trump…just like Nikki…..
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