Republicans would be losing without Trump voters

Published October 8, 2024 2:00pm ET



As it stands, the race for the White House is a toss-up. Practically every poll in all seven main swing states shows former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris deadlocked with just four weeks until Election Day.

The race is so close, and a segment of the GOP is still embittered that the rest of the party’s voters chose to nominate Trump for a third consecutive election. A favorite pastime of anti-Trump Republicans is to claim that if the party had instead nominated former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley, Trump’s last surviving rival in the primary, Harris would be trailing by a wide margin as the GOP barreled toward a landslide victory not seen since George H.W. Bush in 1988.

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