Nikki Haley pledges to keep fighting after projected loss in South Carolina primary

bSophie Brams Feb 24, 2024 / 09:07 PM EST

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD)- Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley isn’t ready to end her presidential campaign despite projections that she’ll lose another primary to former President Donald Trump — this time in her home state.

“I said earlier this week that no matter what happens in South Carolina, I would continue to run for President,” Haley told a crowd gathered in downtown Charleston for her campaign watch party. “I’m a woman of my word. I’m not giving up this fight when a majority of Americans disapprove of both Donald Trump and Joe Biden.”

In any other campaign cycle, a home state loss might be detrimental to a campaign. In 2016, Sen. Marco Rubio dropped out shortly after losing Florida in a blowout to Trump, after his campaign argued the political winds would shift in his favor once the campaign moved to his home state.

Trump has now swept every contest that counted for Republican delegates, with wins already in Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The former president’s latest victory will likely increase pressure on Haley, who was Trump’s former representative to the U.N. and South Carolina governor from 2011 to 2017, to leave the race.

But, Haley has pledged to stay in the race through Super Tuesday, and she already has several events on her post-South Carolina travel schedule. She’s expected to travel to Michigan on Sunday ahead of the state’s Feb. 27 primary.

“I’m grateful that today is not the end of our story,” Haley said. “South Carolina has spoken. We’re the fourth state to do so. In the next ten days, another 21 states and territories will speak. They have the right to a real choice, not a Soviet-style election with only one candidate. And I have a duty to give them that choice.”

With nearly 25% of counties reporting as of 9 p.m. Saturday, Haley has won 39.2% of the vote in South Carolina while Trump has earned 60.2% of the vote, according to results from the South Carolina Election Commission.

Haley congratulated Trump on his victory but pointed to her performance as proof that Republican voters want an alternative.

“I’m an accountant. I know 40% is not 50%. But I also know 40% is not some tiny group,” Haley said. “There are huge numbers of voters in our Republican primaries who are saying they want an alternative.”

Trump took the stage in Columbia, S.C. minutes after the race was called for him,calling his victory “an even bigger win than anticipated.”

“I have never seen the Republican party so unified as it is right now,” he said. “Our country is going to be respected again. respected like never before. So this is a fantastic evening.”

Trump did not mention Haley in his remarks.

https://www.counton2.com/news/your-local-election-hq/nikki-haley-pledges-to-keep-fighting-after-projected-loss-in-south-carolina-primary/

Minorities support Trump. They don’t want to see a two tier system of justice. Byron Donalds

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November 5th will be our Liberation Day, for the Liars, Cheaters and Fraudsters, it will be there Judgement Day=

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Trump came back to save our country, like the great Roman General Cincinatis came back to save his country

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>>20476648

Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus (c. 519 – c. 430 BC) was a Roman patrician, statesman, and military leader of the early Roman Republic who became a legendary figure of Roman virtue—particularly civic virtue—by the time of the late Republic.

Cincinnatus was an opponent of the rights of the plebeians (the common citizens) who fell into poverty because of his son Caeso Quinctius's violent opposition to their desire for a written code of equally enforced laws. Despite his relatively old age, he worked his own small farm until an invasion prompted his fellow citizens to call for his leadership. He came from his plough to assume complete control over the state but, upon achieving a swift victory in only 16 days,[1] relinquished his power and its perquisites and returned to his farm. His success and immediate resignation of his near-absolute authority with the end of this crisis (traditionally dated to 458 BC) has often been cited as an example of outstanding leadership, service to the greater good, civic virtue, humility, and modesty.

Modern historians question some particulars of the story recounted in Livy and elsewhere but usually accept Cincinnatus as a historical figure who served as suffect consul in 460 BC and as dictator in 458 BC and (possibly) again in 439 BC, when the patricians called on him to suppress the feared uprising of the plebeians under Spurius Maelius, after which he is said to have once again ceded power…

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucius_Quinctius_Cincinnatus

Ari Fleischer: Nikki Haley Delivered A "No Labels Speech" After South Carolina Primary

Former Bush speechwriter Ari Fleischer said that Nikki Haley's speech following a second-place finish in the South Carolina primary sounded like a "No Labels speech" to him.

Haley said earlier this week that she has no plans to run as an independent candidate under the "No Labels" label.

ARI FLEISCHER: I've been around a lot of these candidate speeches, I've written a few.That was a "No Labels" speech tonight by Nikki Haley. That was a speech, when she says, "No matter what I am running." When she trashes Joe Biden, trashes Donald Trump, she is setting herself up to run down the middle.

And look what happened in South Carolina tonight, she won according to the Fox voter analysis independent voters by 19 percentage points. That is only 7% of the people who voted in the primary which is why she got her clock cleaned in the primary by Donald Trump. But when you look at independent voters, she sees a huge group out there. And when you look at the country independent voters are 43% of the country, Republicans are 27%, Democrats are 27%.

So she is looking ahead and seeing a swath down the middle that does not like Biden, does not like Trump. I can just feel it, I watched it, my reaction was immediate, she is declaring. Why wouldn't she drop out of the race? She sees herself on the runway to something new. When you see yourself on the runway, you don't pull your plane off the runway, you get ready to take off.

https://www.counton2.com/news/your-local-election-hq/nikki-haley-pledges-to-keep-fighting-after-projected-loss-in-south-carolina-primary/

(I heard tonight if they are registered as Republican, they are eliminated from the primary if they change to another party. Don’t know if that is correct, but many state laws prevent changes on party, “no losers law”)

The American Stasi Controls What You Hear And See To Control What You Think And Do

Sean DavisFebruary 23, 2024

It’s tempting to look at Big Tech, corporate media, and federal agencies as distinct industries and entities with their own goals and organizational structures, but that’s not the right way to analyze them in 2024. In reality, they are just different systems within the same organism, similar to how eyes, ears, and legs are all part of a human body.They have different roles and functions, but all are subordinate to the same overarching goal: total power.

In 2024, these entities all function as part of a single system: the American Stasi. Recall that the Stasi was the oppressive spying and law enforcement regime deployed by the Soviet Union against the people of East Germany. The American regime today is every bit as corrupt and deceitful as the Soviet Stasi was during the Cold War.Big Tech and the federal surveillance system work hand in glove to manipulate what you see, hear, and think. The surveillance state spies on you constantly if you engage in activities it detests: going to church or speaking out at a school board meeting, for example. It develops and deploys complex technologies used to manipulate your perception of reality.

Big Tech is the deployment mechanism for much of this technology.Social media networks use government-funded technology to censor the news you read. Search engines use these technologies to preventyou from everseeing information that’s inconvenient to the regime. Step out of line, and the surveillance state will demand that Big Tech shut down your account or prevent you from earning any revenue from your journalism. I personally know this happens because the regime did it to me and to The Federalist in 2020 and beyond.

Corporate media is used by both the surveillance state and Big Tech to bombard you and overwhelm you with messages it wants you to hear. If the government needs you to hate another country to justify the government’s desire to go to war with it, corporate media will gladly comply with story after story demanding war and slurring anyone who dissents as a domestic terrorist. The government will often spy on these dissenters and leak details of their private lives to corporate media to embarrass them, or they may even deliberately spread vicious lies about someone, knowing corporate media will happily broadcast them.Truth is no obstacle to the American Stasi.

If the government needs a war to replenish the coffers of its military-industrial complex backers and to justify the continued existence of its obscene security and surveillance services, it will use every appendage in the American Stasi to get its way. Corporate media will vilify the target foreign nation and any domestic dissenters.The FBI and its cronies will spy on, smear, and terrorize dissenters as national security threats. Defense research agencies will distribute technologies to their Big Tech friends, which will be used to throttle and deplatform citizens who object to the government’s actions.

AndBig Tech will happily censor anyone the regime targets and then pat themselves on the backfor being on the “right side of history.” At no point does the American Stasi engage in self-reflection and wonder if maybe it is the real villain. They all work in concert with each other in a constant feedback loop, effortlessly reinforcing each other in a manner requiring little overt direction.

Like with a human body, the eyes and ears and arms and legs don’t need step-by-step instructions for every menial task.They all know what’s required of them, or else they wouldn’t be part of the system. None of this is speculative, by the way. It’s all too real, and each one of you has witnessed multiple American Stasi operations rolled out over the last decade. Once you recognize what they’re doing and how the playbook never really changes, it’s difficult to unsee.

Russiagate? 100% American Stasi op from beginning to end. Ukraine impeachment? American Stasi op to defend its money-laundering playground in Ukraine, protect Biden, and hurt Trump. It was a psyop trifecta.

Hunter Biden’s laptop? Yep.The FBI fed lies to corporate media, and those lies were then used as censorship fodder by Big Tech. J6? Obviously. And, of course, the Ukraine war. And these are just the ones I can list off the top of my head. I promise you there are far more because the American Stasi never stops trying to manipulate the American people into giving the regime more power.

Power is all the American regime cares about, and it won’t stop until you don’t have any left.

https://thefederalist.com/2024/02/23/the-american-stasi-controls-what-you-hear-and-see-to-control-what-you-think-and-do/

Koch Brothers Pull Out Of Haley After South Carolina Skewering

SUNDAY, FEB 25, 2024 - 07:15 PM

Less than a day after she was smashed by Donald Trump in her own state, and four weeks after billionaire Democrat Reid Hoffman said 'no more,' the Koch brothers' pet advocacy group,Americans for Prosperity (AFP) have pulled the plug on Nikki Haley.

In an email to staff obtained by Politico AFP CEO Emily Seidel announced on Sunday that the group's political arm,AFP Action, had to "take stock" of its spending prioritiesin light of Haley's South Carolina defeat.

The group, which is funded by the Kochs, will now pivot to competitive Senate and House races.

"She has made it clear that she will continue to fight and we wholeheartedly support her in this effort," Seidel wrote. "Butgiven the challenges in the primary states ahead, we don’t believe any outside group can make a material differenceto widen her path to victory."

AFP Action’s decision is the latest blow to Haley’s longshot presidential bid, which has sustained losses in four early nominating states and the Virgin Islands, including on Saturday, when former President Donald Trump beat Haley in her home state by 20 points. Haley declared she will continue on in her primary fight, but has only committed to running through Super Tuesday on March 5. -Politico

The never-Trump Koch/AFP campaign has focused on convincing Republicans to vote for anyone but the former president. In late November, when it was clear Ron DeSantis wasn't going to go the distance, the political funding network tapped Haley as their choice to take on Trump. Yet, despite reaching out to more than 3 million voters in early nominating and Super Tuesday states - and tossing millions into a fire for advertising,it made no difference.

That said, while another anti-Trump conservative group, Club for Growth, made peace with Trump, AFP maintains that Trump on the ballot will spell disaster for the GOP.

"If Donald Trump is at the top of the Republican ticket, the risk of one-party rule by a Democratic Party captured by the Progressive Left is severe and would do irreparable damage to the country," according to Seidel's Sunday note. "The last three election cycles have painted a very clear picture of what we can expect from voters who consistently rejected Donald Trump and his impact on the Republican party brand."

She also brought up Trump's legal woes in the context of Republicans underperforming, writing "And we should expect this to increase further as the criminal trials progress."

Haley spokeswomaan Olivia Perez-Cubas thanked AFP for supporting the campaign, which she says has "plenty of fuel to keep going" and a "country to save."

"AFP is a great organization and ally in the fight for freedom and conservative government," said Perez-Cubas. "We thank them for their tremendous help in this race."

Sorry Nikki, they're just not into you.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/koch-brothers-pull-out-haley-after-south-carolina-skewering

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Thats gross to think about, so many were in

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It’s surprising he said Israel is not prioritizing getting the hostages back. There was more criticism on how this war is being handled also

After nearly a decade, it turns out Assad did NOT “gas his own people”…

OPCW identifies ISIL as perpetrators of 2015 chemical attack in Marea, Syria

IIT report concludes ISIL held exclusive means, motives, and capabilities to deploy sulfur mustard in 2015 attack

22 FEBRUARY 2024

THE HAGUE, Netherlands—22 February 2024—The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) Investigation and Identification Team (IIT)’s fourth report concludes that there are reasonable grounds to believe that units of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) were the perpetrators of the chemical weapons attack on 1 September 2015 in Marea, Syria. The IIT’s comprehensive investigation was conducted from January 2023 to February 2024.

Key findings

1. Sulfur mustard attack by ISIL:

The IIT concludes that there are reasonable grounds to believe that on 1 September 2015, between 09:00 and 12:00 (UTC+3), during sustained attacks aimed at capturing the town of Marea, units of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) deployed sulfur mustard.

The chemical agent was delivered using one or more artillery guns.

1. Impact locations and remnants:

The IIT identified several impact locations across Marea, with no discernible targeting pattern.

All remnants and munitions observed at these sites were conventional artillery projectiles, specifically of a 122-mm calibre, modified to disperse a liquid payload.

Upon impact, at least six projectiles leaked a black, viscous substance with a distinct “pungent” and “garlic-like” smell.

Eleven named individuals who came into contact with the liquid substance experienced symptoms consistent with exposure to sulfur mustard.

1. ISIL’s exclusive and dedicated capability in this incident:

The IIT established that the chemical payload was deployed by artillery from areas under ISIL control.

No other entity possessed the means, motives, and capabilities to deploy sulfur mustard as part of an attack in Marea on 1 September, 2015.

The IIT was able to reconstruct theorganisational structure and chain of command that led to the use of chemical weapons by the Islamic State in Marea on 1 September 2015.

Strategic military operations such as the attack carried out in Marea, involving the large-scale deployment of chemical weapons, would only have occurred pursuant to direct orders from ISIL’s Executive Branch, i.e., Delegated Committee, operating directly under ISIL’s so-called “Caliph”, according to IIT conclusions.

In the course of its investigation, the IIT was able to link additional organisational structures and individuals to the use and deployment of chemical weapons by the Islamic State, including ISIL’s Diwan Al-Jund (Department of Soldiery) and the Committee for Military Development and Manufacturing, identifying a total of four named individuals as perpetrators. Two further ISIL members were identified as the primary drivers of ISIL’s chemical weapons programme.

1. Degree of certainty:

The IIT reached its conclusions based on the standard of proof known as “reasonable grounds”, consistently adopted by international fact-finding bodies and commissions of inquiry.

The assessment included information from the Fact-Finding Mission (FFM), States Parties, interviews conducted by the IIT, and analyses of samples, computer modelling, satellite imagery, front-line maps, authenticated videos and photos, and other relevant data.

Upon releasing the report, OPCW Director-General Ambassador Fernando Arias said: “With the fourth report by the Investigation and Identification Team (IIT), the Secretariat of the OPCW has once again delivered on the mandate it has received to identify perpetrators of chemical weapon use in Syria. In this report, the IIT concluded that ISIL used sulfur mustard in Marea on 1 September 2015. This independent investigation has been conducted based on a sound scientific methodology and on the combination, consistency, and corroboration of all of the information gathered and analysed, in line with the highest international standards.

Once again, the OPCW Secretariat has demonstrated that it is able to identify perpetrators of the use of chemical weapons, States and non-State actors alike. This is a stark reminder to the international community that non-State actors like ISIL have developed the capacity and the will to use chemical weapons. This emphasises the OPCW’s pivotal role and expertise in addressing such threats. The facts are now known – it is up to the international community to take action, at the OPCW and beyond.”

Background….

https://www.opcw.org/media-centre/news/2024/02/opcw-identifies-isil-perpetrators-2015-chemical-attack-marea-syria

Reporter lashes out after blowback for claiming 'Christian nationalists' believe rights 'come from God'

Politico's Heidi Przybyla says Christian nationalists believe American rights 'come from God,' not Congress nor the Supreme Court

February 23, 2024 4:10pm EST

A reporter for Politico is firing back at critics she says are taking her out of context based on comments she made bashing "Christian nationalists."

Appearing on MSNBC Thursday, Politico national investigative correspondent Heidi Przybyla was asked about the "infusion of Christian nationalism" in Congress following the appointment of Louisiana representative and devout Christian Mike Johnson as House Speaker.

"The base of the Republican Party has shifted, right?" Przybyla began. "Remember when Trump ran in 2016, a lot of the mainline evangelicals wanted nothing to do with the divorced, you know, real estate mogul who had cheated on his wife with a porn star and all of that. So what happened was he was surrounded by this more extremist element. They're gonna hear words like ‘Christian nationalism,' like the ‘New Apostolic reformation.’ These are groups that you should get very, very schooled on because they have a lot of power in Trump's circle."

"The thing that unites them as Christian nationalists - not Christians, by the way, because Christian nationalist is very different - is that they believe that our rights as Americans, as all human beings, don't come from any earthly authority. They don't come from Congress, they don't come from the Supreme Court. They come from God. The problem with that is that they are determining- man, men, it is men are determining what God is telling them," Przybyla said.

"And in the past, that so-called natural law is, you know, it's a pillar of Catholicism, for instance. It has been used for good in social justice campaigns, Martin Luther King evoked it in talking about civil rights, but now you have an extremist element of conservative Christians who say that this applies specifically to issues including abortion, gay marriage, and it's going much further than that," she continued, before citing the Alabama Supreme Court ruling on IVF.

A portion of Przybyla's comments, especially the ones talking about how Christian nationalists believe rights come from God not government, went viral on Friday with many critics accusing her of attacking Christians and being ignorant of basic American civics.

The Declaration of Independence cites "the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God" and says, "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."

"Here @MSNBC helpfully makes it clear their disdain for Christians in America," Wade Miller of Citizens for Renewing America said while sharing the clip of Przybyla. "She says that if you believe that your rights come from God, you aren’t a Christian, you are a Christian nationalist. Somehow they seem to not mention that our own founding documents make this proclamation, as have most Americans throughout our history. The radical Atheist Globalists are coming to try to crush ordinary American citizens."

"Our Declaration of Independence, our entire system of government, is based on the principle that our rights don’t come from some 'earthly authority' (like Congress or a king) but from God. Read the plain words of the Declaration: ‘We are endowed by our CREATOR with certain inalienable rights.’ The historical illiteracy of her comments is stunning," Fox News contributor Marc Thiessen added.

"Imagine going on TV and being this ignorant while having this level of self assurance," New York Post columnist Karol Markowicz reacted. "Liberal privilege, man. We hold these truths to be self-evident but only if Congress and the Supreme Court agree!"

"Has @HeidiReports read the Declaration of Independence?" Daily Caller deputy editor Ailan Evans asked.

But Przybyla remained defiant on Friday.

"That is NOT what I said & you know it. Why don't you play the full clip?" Przybyla reacted to Miller's viral post of her comments. "I said men are making their own policy interpretation of natural law. MLK did so w social justice. You're welcome to as well but you don't speak for all Christians & certainly not for God."

She later added, "While there are different wings of Christian Nationalism, they are bound by their belief that our rights come from God. In response to Fox News Digital's request for comment, Przybyla pointed to the full clip of her remarks and did not comment further. Politico did not immediately respond for comment.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/reporter-lashes-claiming-christian-nationalists-believe-rights-come-god

>>20477041

Outrageous that God bequeaths of our rights since he created us.

These people must have a very sad life trying to twist new conspiracy theories.

These people are too predictable to be believable

>>20477055

Sick people because they never had the pleasure of the illegitimate government coming after their rights from God or even government

>>20477053

They are designing a new terrorist group, all the news repeated it the same day

>>20477063

I can imagine anything from this satanist atheists. They only truly care about the money and destruction of faith and innocence