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\n Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley entered the Republican primary in February with a call for “generational change.” But his message has been largely drowned out by former President Donald Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who are battling for support from the GOP’s right-wing base.\n <\/p>\n \n Sunday night, however, at a live CNN town hall in Iowa, Haley will have her clearest chance yet to distinguish herself from the growing Republican presidential field and make the case that she is the best candidate to unseat Trump in the primary. next year and then defeat President Joe Biden in the fall.\n <\/p>\n \n Haley’s early poll numbers among Republicans have been tame. Like so many others now flooding the race, he tends to fit in with those currently receiving support in the single digits, laps behind Trump and DeSantis. A moderate, at least in the current context of the Republican Party, Haley is trying to forge a coalition of Trump-weary, anti-Trump GOP voters along with part of the former president’s conservative base.\n <\/p>\n \n So far, she has drawn some criticism for not giving clear answers to her own political agenda and her attempts to balance her criticism of Trump \u2014 and Trumpism \u2014 with the fact that she served in his administration as ambassador to the United States United in the United Nations.\n <\/p>\n \n Now, with the first round of primary debates on the horizon, Haley will have a chance to clarify her views and make her case to a national audience ahead of more campaign announcements this coming week, including expected entries from the ‘former Vice President Mike Pence and former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.\n <\/p>\n \n Here are four things to keep in mind:\n <\/p>\n \n When asked about the most divisive issue in contemporary politics, Haley has repeatedly said that her primary goal is to find consensus on abortion.\n <\/p>\n \n Personally, he has no reservations against abortion. But what that means in practice, and in a campaign where candidates are pressed for specific information, has been harder to figure out. He recently passed a federal ban on abortion, while warning that conservatives need to get real and admit they don’t have, and probably won’t have, the votes in Washington to make it happen.\n <\/p>\n \n “I’m not going to lie to the American people. Nothing is going to happen if we don’t get 60 votes in the Senate. We’re not even close to that on the Republican or Democratic side,” Haley recently told CBS News. “Why try to divide people further?”\n <\/p>\n \n During her time as governor of the Palmetto State, Haley signed a 20-week abortion ban. This was, he said, the most ambitious bill that could be passed at the time. Late last month, Republican Gov. Henry McMaster, Haley’s successor and former lieutenant governor, signed a six-week ban, though a state judge has since temporarily blocked the new restrictions from taking effect.\n <\/p>\n \n After Haley’s comments to CBS News, Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of the anti-abortion Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, cast the former governor as a defeatist.\n <\/p>\n \n “The pro-life movement must have a candidate who will boldly advocate for that consensus, and as president he will work tirelessly to gather the necessary votes in Congress,” Dannenfelser said. “Dismissing this task as unrealistic is not acceptable.”\n <\/p>\n \n How Haley answers the question this time, and whether she’s willing to offer more of a plan than an observation, will be instructive about her view of the issue and her role in the campaign.\n <\/p>\n \n Haley has so far tried to avoid any direct conflict with Trump, instead training her ire more directly on DeSantis and only criticizing the former president in vague terms.\n <\/p>\n \n “We are ready to move beyond the outdated ideas and faded names of the past,” Haley said in February. “And we are more than ready for a new generation to lead us into the future.”\n <\/p>\n \n Haley also proposed a mental competency test for politicians over 75, a group that, in the context of this campaign, includes only Trump and Biden, who at one point suggested they were unlikely to live out a second term in office As for DeSantis, he has mostly been referred to as a carbon copy of Trump.\n <\/p>\n \n
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