Rep. Norman, Who Pushed Trump To Invoke ‘Marshall Law,’ Won’t Be Supporting Him In 2024

Freedom Caucus staple Rep. Ralph Norman (R-SC) announced on Wednesday he will back former South Carolina governor and UN ambassador Nikki Haley over Donald Trump in the next presidential race, saying the Republican Party is in need of a “new vision.”


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He was one of the few lawmakers who did not vote to certify the 2020 election

WTF? Two thirds of the House rethug caucus didn’t vote to certify.

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Freedom Caucus staple Rep. Ralph Norman (R-SC) announced on Wednesday he will back former South Carolina governor and UN ambassador Nikki Haley over Donald Trump in the next presidential race…

Whatever she offered him for his support, it must have been good. She doesn’t have a snowball’s chance in hell of getting the nomination and I can’t believe he’s too stupid to know this. He must have been offered something big to get him to make such a longshot bet this early in the game.

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Nimrata’s total embrace of anti-Semite John Hagee at her kickoff rally guarantees that her campaign is dead on arrival.

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You just know that throughout history it’s people who cannot spell martial law who would be the ones most likely to impose it.

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I can!

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Norman will be 70 in June.

Nikki, you’re never going to be president.

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“Marshall Law”?

Mighty fine education you have, Ralph.

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Will he support the eventual nominee?

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Haley was against Trump, before she was for Trump, before she was hinting that she was ever so slightly not so much for Trump after all without actually mentioning his name.

She was a brown girl in a black and white world, who removed the Confederate flag from the South Carolina state house grounds, then went to work for the man who brought that flag into the U.S. Capitol building, then ran a political ad calling Democrats “socialists” and implying somehow that the 1619 Project brought about a burning summer of riots by Black Lives Matter after the George Floyd murder.

Yes, we’ve always known who she is, since her identity is all over the map.

Also, I hate her mincing content-free artificial speech patterns.

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Forget “new vision” the Republicans have no vision.

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Idiot changes his mind. Updates at 11:00.

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What Trump accomplished was releasing mindless assholes who were too stupid know they were there to kiss Trump’s ass not think.

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I guess she is not counting on the solidly reliable GOP senior vote.

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Au contraire, my perky little pomme de terre.

Hagee’s approval nets her a shitload of far-right evangelical votes, which work like Clorox in whitening her candidacy.

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I’m guessing he wants Haley in because the more primary candidates there are, the better Trump’s chances become. He’ll be encouraging other candidates to join, especially when Marshall Law (R-Ignorance) expresses some interest.

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I wouldn’t count her out at all. She’s what a lot of never Trumpers have been waiting for and a lot of voters who held their noses when voting for Biden will feel a lot better about voting for her. The media will also fawn over her while TFG and DeSantis beat the shit out of each other about how she is so great to stay above the fray.

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Prepared to be wraithed, Ralph.

He’ll fall back in line once Orange Voldemort garners the nomination.

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Rishi Sunak was a breakthrough for the Indian community in the UK. His wife is richer than the king of England, and owns Wendy’s franchises in India, but he was just an average rich kid. I’m pretty sure the much poorer Haley will also be marketed as an Indian success story. Her problem, in fact, may be that she is too poor.

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