Haley Is Still Struggling to Deal With Trump's Grip on Their Party

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56% : Now, after a streak of losses to Trump (and a small victory in Washington, D.C.'s primary), she is grappling with his endurance among her party's base.
56% : She is lagging far behind Trump in every state with available polling data, including Massachusetts, where she has the most favorable terrain.
54% : They had believed Haley was the best candidate to take on Trump since her breakout performance during the first national debate, even if she has been slow to come out strongly against him, they said.
48% : But her digs against Trump, along with her pledges to return a sense of normalcy to American politics, have been resonating with the stubborn hopefuls who see her as taking a critical stand for democracy and believe she can deliver stability at home and abroad.(STORY CAN END HERE.
41% : And despite devoting much time to her new approach, she argued her candidacy was not centered on Trump.
38% : She has sounded the alarm over losses Republicans have incurred up and down the ballot, with candidates championed by Trump.
36% : In media appearances and at rallies as she crisscrosses the country leading up to Super Tuesday this week, she has argued that Trump has installed loyalists in key party positions and pushed for changes in primary rules to serve himself.
35% : "We are in a ship with a hole in it -- that hole is Donald Trump," she declared Wednesday to loud cheers at a performing arts theater near Salt Lake City.
32% : "Haley's campaign has largely been defined by Trump, though not by her choice.
23% : "Trump scares me to death.
20% : "At a roundtable discussion with reporters Friday in Washington, Haley said her turning point was when Trump threatened her donors, saying they would be "permanently barred from the MAGA camp."

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