The Iowa caucuses will be held on Monday, four days from now, and will be a two-way race between Nikki Haley and Donald Trump. Granted, Ron De Santis hasn't officially conceded yet and may even come in second in Iowa, but his entire campaign has come to nothing. He invested a year and more than $100 million in his bid to win Iowa, but he will lose badly to Mr. Trump. he. He'll be lucky if he even gets second place. And after spending all his money on his win at Iowa, he had nowhere else to go. De Santis is a distant third in New Hampshire and South Carolina. The real question now is whether Haley can perform well and pull off upsets in New Hampshire and South Carolina. With Chris Christie out of the race, my bet is that Haley will win New Hampshire, just as Ronald Reagan won New Hampshire after George H.W. Bush won Iowa 44 years ago. He would win in an upset.
So, as a die-hard Reagan supporter, I have to ask, who would Ronald Reagan support in 2024 if he were still alive? Reagan's view was that the United States was a beacon of freedom to the rest of the world, a shining city on a hill, and an example to every other nation on earth. Nikki Haley believes this because she, like me, is the child of immigrants. Our family came to the United States because America stands for freedom and democracy. I thank God every day that I am American and not Italian. Nikki Haley probably thanks God every day that she is an American and not a citizen of India, which is slipping back into dictatorship.
President Ronald Reagan will be thrilled that Nikki Haley wants to see freedom and democracy triumph in Ukraine. President Reagan worked hard to win the freedoms in Central and Eastern Europe that President Donald Trump is trying to abandon. President Ronald Reagan is rebelling against President Trump's affection for dictators like Vladimir Putin, who bailed him out of numerous bankruptcies through Deutsche Bank while offering him the Trump Hotel in Moscow. Dew.
I will quote three paragraphs from Ronald Reagan's Farewell Address to the American People, which includes Nikki Haley and Ronald Reagan's message that America is not isolated from the rest of the world and is the leader of the free world. Reagan's vision is vividly demonstrated.
„And that's all I have to say tonight, except for one thing. For the past few days, as I've been at my upstairs window, I've been thinking a little about 'The Shining City on a Hill.' I did. This phrase comes from the words: John Winthrop wrote this book to describe the America he imagined. His imagination was important because he was an early Pilgrim, an early freer. He traveled here in what we today call a small wooden boat, and like other Pilgrims, he was looking for a free home.
I've talked about this shining city all my political career, but I don't know if I've done a good job of conveying what I saw when I said it. But in my heart, it is a tall, wind-blown, wind-blown, full of people of all kinds living in harmony and peace, built on a rock stronger than the sea. It was a proud city. A city with a free port, where commerce and creativity thrive. And if there had to be a wall, there was a door in the wall, and that door was open to anyone who had the will and heart to get there. That's how I saw it, and I still see it that way.
And what is the city like on this winter night? We are richer, safer and happier than we were eight years ago. But more than that, two hundred years, two centuries later, she still stands strong and true on a granite ridge, shining no matter what storms come her way. And she is still a lighthouse, still a magnet for all who must have freedom, for all pilgrims who rush home in the dark from lost places . ”