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In field of would-be Trumps, Haley gains ground

WASHINGTON, D.C.: There is Trump, there are wannabe Trumps, and then there is Nikki Haley — the sole woman in the Republican presidential field and now on the cusp of consolidating second place after showing there may be another way than simply aping the main man.

Ex-president Donald Trump leads the US Republican primaries by dozens of percentage points, but should the scandal-embroiled populist's campaign implode, experts increasingly believe Haley might be ready to pick up the pieces.