What Nikki Haley Is Really Doing

What is Nikki Haley doing? The answer is clear enough: demonstrating the inconvenient fact that a sizable portion of the Republican primary electorate isn’t on board with another Donald Trump nomination, no matter how inevitable it seems.

She did it again in Saturday’s South Carolina primary, which saw the former United Nations ambassador trounced by 20 points in her home state—yet still notching 40% of the vote, a remarkable showing for a candidate with no plausible path to victory. “40% is not some tiny group,” she told her supporters after the results came in as she vowed to fight on in the next batch of contests on the calendar. “There are huge numbers of voters in our Republican primaries who are saying they want an alternative.”