While GOP candidate Nikki Haley was campaigning against former President Donald Trump, she declared: “Chaos follows him.” But now, in an ironic twist, fallout from Ms. Haley’s campaign threatens to cause chaos for other Republicans’ campaigns for years to come.
The problem is that organizations that supported Ms. Haley recruited non-Republicans to change their voter registrations to the GOP, then encouraged them to vote for her in states that permit “crossover” voting in primaries or caucuses. Thus, in those states, many left-leaning voters now are masquerading as Republicans in voter data files—information that campaigners and pollsters mine to do their work.
