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Even after her losses to frontrunner Donald Trump in GOP presidential primaries in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina, Nikki Haley has vowed to stay in the race. Haley’s supporters are hoping that if her campaign hangs on long enough, Republicans will conclude that Trump’s legal problems are insurmountable and turn to Haley as an alternative. But Daily Beast opinion writer Eleanor Clift, in a column published on February 27, argues that even if Trump dropped out of the race, Haley would not be the nominee — as many MAGA Republicans view her as “a traitor to the cause.” Clift acknowledges t…