text:  It was interesting to have Nikki Haley there trying to create a permission structure for the kinds of voters that she attracts. Those voters, though, those are the people fleeing the Republican Party in droves. Those are the people voting against Republicans in off-year elections like in 2022 that defeated so many of Trump's handpicked candidates. And really, I thought that the convention was about expanding this new mega version of the Republican Party to a new and different audience.