The Iowa Caucuses are on Monday, four days from now, and its down to a two person races Nikki Haley versus Donald Trump. Yes, Ron De Santis has not formally conceded yet, and he may even place second in Iowa, but his campaign is all washed up. He invested a year and much more than $100 million on winning in Iowa, and he is going to lose big time to Trump. He. will be lucky if he even places second. And, after investing his whole campaign on winning Iowa, he has nowhere else to go. De Santis is in a distant third place in New Hampshire and South Carolina. The real question now is whether Haley can pull off an upset with strong finishes in New Hampshire and South Carolina. With Chris Christie out of the race, my bet is that Haley will win an upset in New Hampshire just as 44 years ago Ronald Reagan won New Hampshire after George H.W. Bush won Iowa.
So, as a die hard Reaganite, I have to ask who would Ronald Reagan support in 2024 if he were still alive? Reagan's view was that the United States was a beacon of liberty to the rest of the world—a shining city on a hill, which was an example to every other country on earth. Nikki Haley believes because she, like me, is the child of immigrants. Our families came to the United States because it stood for freedom and democracy. I thank God every day that I am an American and not an Italian, and I bet Nikki Haley thanks God every day that she is an American and not a citizen of India, a country which is backsliding into dictatorship.
Ronald Reagan would be thrilled that Nikki Haley wants to see freedom and democracy triumph in Ukraine. Reagan worked hard to win the freedom for Central and Eastern Europe that Donald Trump wants to throw away. Ronald Reagan would be repulsed by Trump's affection for dictators like Vladimir Putin who through Deutsche Bank bailed Trump out of many a business bankruptcy while offering him a Trump Hotel in Moscow.
