Ken Grossberger, PhD
It’s difficult to understand what Nikki is doing. She has virtually no path to the nomination, and continuing in the race increases her reputation risk. It seems she is intellectually stuck on an idea that does not correlate with reality. She needs to suspend her race while she can still clean up the damage.
Is there a future for the former South Carolina Governor and UN Ambassador? She’s smart, she’s tough and she can raise money, but her loss of perspective is troublesome as we assess her prospects in the post-election cycle. There is a sense of arguing too much as she repeats that she is going to continue her race because “Republican voters deserve a choice”, one they quite obviously have already made. Will she continue past Michigan primary (tomorrow) and head into Super Tuesday with a string of losses to show for her efforts? Will she continue past Super Tuesday when Trump will have officially locked up the nomination?
She is seduced by her own rhetoric, the force of which is supported by the constant repetition. It is difficult to know, at this point, what it will take to convince her to suspend her campaign. Polls don’t seem to matter, neither do losses. And this for a woman who has won every political race she has run in, and now an increasingly long string of losses. The logic of hanging in waiting for a Trump criminal conviction borders on the foolhardy as Trump has developed a Teflon political shield and will highly likely survive the White House coordinated legal tsunami.
So the music has stopped, the chairs are full of other humans and Nikki is still circling, waiting for some quixotic chance to get back in the game.
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