Primary candidate Nikki Haley has had it easy, but now it's over, according to several experts Politico spoke with.
- Everyone from Joe Biden to Donald Trump is attacking Nikki for one reason: She's the only candidate with momentum, Olivia Perez-Cubas, spokeswoman for Haley's presidential campaign, told Politico.
Nikki Haley ends up in opinion polls either second or third after Ron DeSantis. First, in an overwhelming lead, is Donald Trump.
In the past, Trump has focused his "hammer-like attacks" on rival Ron DeSantis, and more than twice as much money has been spent on negative ads about him as about Haley, the newspaper writes.
The fact that that dynamic is now changing is not least noticeable in recent weeks' intense coverage of Haley's failure to mention slavery in response to a question about the background to the American Civil War.
"The media response is evidence that the honeymoon is over, and that she is facing opposition for the first time," says Liam Donovan, a former Republican Senate official.
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Rush for HD: Must decide on Trump soon
The US Supreme Court needs to act quickly if it wants to resolve the question of whether it was legally correct to keep Trump off the ballot before the primaries begin. The Washington Post writes.
In the case of Colorado, the decision needs to be made by the eleventh of February at the latest in order not to have direct effects on the election – the next day the ballots start being sent out.
- The longer this takes, the greater uncertainty there will be when states do their own thing - voters, of course, wonder if they risk voting for a candidate who is declared invalid, says law professor Derek Muller to the newspaper.
Maine overnight Friday became the second state after Colorado to block Donald Trump from the ballots in the primary election, due to his actions in connection with the storming of the Capitol in 2021.
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She refuses to poke Trump: "Must be better"
California's Secretary of State, Democrat Shirley Weber, is under heavy pressure to remove Donald Trump from the ballot before the primary election, writes the Los Angeles Times.
But Shirley Weber refuses, despite the fact that she considers the former president to be "a threat to our freedoms and our democracy".
- I have to be better than Trump, she tells the newspaper.
It was during the night of Friday that the state of Maine became the second in the order to ban Donald Trump from standing in the primary election due to his actions in connection with the storming of the Capitol in 2021.
In the primary election, it is decided who will be the respective party's presidential candidate. Currently, Donald Trump leads in many opinion polls by over 50 percentage points over his competitors.
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