Republican Voters Clash Over Whether Haley Should Remain in Nomination Race

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : "Alternative to TrumpFor her part, Haley insists her focus is on the present and that she believes she is the Republican Party's best chance at unseating President Biden.
59% : "She's been spending her time in more moderate states and states where independent voters are also allowed to take part in the Republican primary," Olsen said, adding, "states like Minnesota, where Marco Rubio beat Trump in the 2016 primary, and Colorado, where moderate Republican Senator Joe O'Dea beat a Trump-supported opponent by a wide margin.
52% : "But I've voted for Trump twice and I'm going to do it again in the primary.
48% : Trump has won all but one of the 11 primaries and caucuses so far, racking up 276 total delegates to Haley's 43.
46% : Henry Olsen, a senior fellow with the Ethics and Public Policy Center, believes Haley, the former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, hopes if she can win several states, it will allow her to gain concessions from Trump during the Republican National Convention.
42% : "She's facing a lot of attacks for refusing to withdraw, and she's giving people who vote Republican a choice -- the ability to choose someone other than Trump, a politician who has shown he has no respect whatsoever for democracy," LaCombe said.
42% : ""Utah, Vermont, Massachusetts and Maine are all in the same boat, and if she can win five states, Republican Party rules will give her more time and clout at the convention to voice her opposition to Trump," Olsen continued.
41% : I don't think she can win, so it's time for her to give the stage to Trump so he can focus on Biden."
37% : "If you're a Democrat, you probably want Haley to stay in the race because she's distracting Trump from focusing on defeating Biden," explained Bob Carreto, a Trump supporter from Chalmette, Louisiana.
36% : "I think she's incredibly brave for staying in the race, especially given that Trump is a maniacal egoist who attacks anyone who challenges him," Abby LaCombe, an independent voter from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, told VOA.
32% : Nearly every day, Trump drives people away.
31% : "I like the idea of having a choice, and I'm grateful to still be able to show my dissent for Trump by backing someone who wasn't involved in the January 6 insurrection," Winder told VOA.
25% : A Reuters/Ipsos poll from last month found that 51% of Republican voters said they would not vote for Trump if he was convicted of any of the 91 felony charges brought against him across four criminal trials.
24% : ""She's forcing Trump to spend money defeating her, and it's not good for the Republican Party," Carreto said.
24% : "Even though Trump has won each of the contests so far, not all voters who could cast their ballot this November for a Republican think Haley should exit.
23% : Fifty-eight percent said they would not vote for Trump if he were serving time in prison in November.
22% : "Trump faces 91 charges in four trials, including allegations he illegally tried to upend his 2020 election loss, whether he illegally took highly classified documents with him when he left office, and whether he falsified documents related to hush-money paid to a porn actor.
22% : "This week, Haley told supporters at a rally in Minnesota that Trump can't win the general election if he's losing 40% of the vote, and polling has shown a sizable portion of the Republican Party believe Trump is too extreme to defeat Biden.
12% : Nearly nine in 10 Haley voters in South Carolina said they would not be satisfied with Trump as the Republican Party's presidential nominee.
9% : I don't believe Donald Trump can beat Joe Biden.

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