Abby McCloskey, Dallas Morning News, March 7, 2024

We dreaded this. On Super Tuesday, it happened. Texas and the others fell like dominoes. It’s a Trump-Biden rematch for 2024. Woof.

A dear friend asked me the other day why, in a country as big and diverse as ours, we couldn’t have someone other than these two old guys for president. One geriatric. One maniacal.

But up until now there has been a young, talented, Southern governor, immigrant, former U.N. ambassador and actual conservative in the Republican race for president who hasn’t flaunted the U.S. Constitution to stay in power: Nikki Haley.

When people have shared their voting intentions for the fall with pollsters, she’s held double-digit leads over President Joe Biden. Former President Donald Trump is in the low singles.

Ideally, parties wouldn’t put up their weakest candidate for the general; but their strongest one. Clearly, she’s stronger. Why didn’t she count? Why didn’t the normal people who care about democracy and decency or actual conservatism flood the primaries for her?