MILWAUKEE — Republicans always seem to come home. Some sooner than others.

The White House did not appreciate the repeated assertions from Nikki Haley earlier this year that Vice President Kamala Harris, not President Biden, would be the next Democratic nominee.

Former President Trump continued his romp through the Republican primary, easily winning all but one Super Tuesday contest and demonstrating a dominance so absolute that his stacked victories now seem nearly routine.

Seated at the head of a boardroom table in downtown Washington, D.C., a defiant Nikki Haley vowed to soldier on. “As long as you’ve got 70% of Americans saying they want something different,” she said, “we’re going to give them something different.”

As Nikki Haley stubbornly clings to life ahead of Super Tuesday, warning that nominating Donald Trump for president a third time would mean “suicide for our country,” some of her closest supporters take solace in the fact that the future is unknowable.

While former President Trump complains that a cabal of Democratic donors, Wall Street investors, and other elites are supporting Nikki Haley in efforts to deny him a third Republican nomination, some of his own wealthy backers roughly fit that same description.