Appearing on today’s Morning Joe to discuss the brouhaha [or is it a kerfuffle?] over Nikki Haley’s failure to mention slavery when asked the cause of the Civil War, Matt Lewis, a Daily Beast columnist who described himself today as a “Never Trump conservative,” suggested that in doing so, Haley was misreading her core constituency.
As Lewis put it:
“Nikki Haley shouldn’t even be worried about appeasing someone who wants to relitigate the Civil War. Those are not Nikki Haley voters. Nikki Haley was in Berlin, New Hampshire, running to try to win New Hampshire. Not Alabama, not Mississippi. New Hampshire. Her core constituency are not Trump voters. She needs to win independents in New Hampshire and non-Trump, center-right voters in New Hampshire. That should be her top priority.”
Lewis suggested that Haley’s mishandling of the question could cost her…
