The road to the 2024 GOP presidential nomination is congested. Ted Cruz is in the right hand lane espousing balanced budgets and conservative values. He is joined by Tom Cotton, who also straddles the Trump lane. Marco Rubio keeps on making weird hand signals, so his lane is uncertain, but definitely small. The Trump lane is clogged with Pence, Don Jr., Mike Pompeo, a bit of Cotton and a few other stragglers.
Before recklessly veering into the Trump pileup, Nikki Halley had a clear path. She could run as the compassionate conservative following in the wake of George W. Bush, with the added benefits of an immigrant background, pigmentation and removal of the Confederate Flag from the South Carolina state house grounds.
Merging with Trump was political malpractice. If Republicans remain the party of Trump, she will never be Trumpy enough, compared to Pence and Trump's eldest son. But if Trump floundered she was positioned to be the shiny, unsullied object of political affection.
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