albaby1: So this is a very short-term play, and really only if Trump dies.

Haley has a couple of options. Option 1: spend the next month in South Carolina holding town hall meetings to explain to anyone and everyone who'll listen that preserving democracy is more important bending the knee to Trump, a man who is unworthy of the presidency, a hate-filled, Hitler-quoting, top secret documents stealing, insurrection inciting, fake electoral vote peddling, defaming and defrauding incoherent rapist, thereby ending her campaign by doing her part to keep a dictator out of the White House.

Option 2: she can continue to run a mediocre campaign that buckles under to Trump's blackmail threat -- TRUMP: "I could tell you five reasons why already, not big reasons, little stuff that she doesn’t want to talk about, but she will be under investigation in minutes" -- and watch her campaign end in South Carolina anyway.

Either way, South Carolina is the end of the road.

Unless in the next four weeks Trump starts talking in tongues or barking like a dog at his rallies, neither of which is outside the realm of possibility.