{"id":2038231,"date":"2023-09-20T05:32:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-20T09:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/haley-heads-into-second-debate-banking-on-keeping-up-momentum-from-the-first\/"},"modified":"2023-09-20T05:36:22","modified_gmt":"2023-09-20T09:36:22","slug":"haley-heads-into-second-debate-banking-on-keeping-up-momentum-from-the-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/haley-heads-into-second-debate-banking-on-keeping-up-momentum-from-the-first\/","title":{"rendered":"Haley relies on first debate&#8217;s momentum for second."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhaley-heads-into-second-debate-banking-on-keeping-up-momentum-from-the-first%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2038231&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Republican Presidential Candidate Nikki Haley Gains Momentum Ahead of Second Debate<\/h2>\n<p>Republican presidential candidate and \u200cformer U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley is \u200cheading into \u200cthe second Republican National Committee debate next week with more momentum behind her campaign after \u2064a standout performance at the first GOP primary debate last month.<\/p>\n<p>Her first debate performance saw her campaign see a rise in enthusiasm at early\u200d state\u2063 rallies, a sizable increase in donations, and a bump in some national and state polls. All of these facts are giving her supporters\u200c cause to believe Haley could become one of the dominant candidates in the primary race, apart from former President Donald Trump, the front-runner.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>No \u2063Clear Path to Avoid a Shutdown<\/h3>\n<p>Haley&#8217;s campaign has long touted that she is the only Republican who can defeat President Joe Biden during next year&#8217;s\u200b elections. And at least one poll has some evidence of this\u2063 fact.\u200c A CNN poll released earlier this month showed Haley as\u200c the only Republican\u2063 candidate who beat\u2063 Biden in a hypothetical matchup, 49% to 43%, which puts Haley&#8217;s support over the president outside of the margin of error.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;I think the\u2063 reason that it shows that I would beat Biden by 6 points is simple. I\u200d think the \u200bmajority\u2063 of Americans know we need a new generational leader, that we\u200b need\u200c to leave the negativity of the past behind us,\u201d Haley told CNN&#8217;s Jake Tapper in response to the poll. Her campaign has also seized on a senior \u200bDemocratic strategist&#8217;s comment to Politico that \u200c&#8221;we\u2019re\u2062 in trouble&#8221; if Haley were the GOP nominee as\u2062 another sign \u2064that she could make a race against Biden more\u200c than competitive.<\/p>\n<p>Another poll\u200c from Iowa State University-Civiqs surveying likely Republican Iowa caucus attendees showed Haley at \u200b10%,\u2062 behind Trump at 51% and Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) \u2062at 14%, although DeSantis&#8217;s lead over\u2063 Haley is within the poll&#8217;s margin \u2064of error of 5.8 percentage points. An NMB \u200bResearch survey of New Hampshire\u200b GOP primary voters showed Haley and DeSantis tied for \u200csecond place at 10%, while Trump\u2062 garnered\u200c 47% support.<\/p>\n<p>Haley&#8217;s supporters say the momentum hasn&#8217;t slowed in the weeks since the\u200b debate. &#8220;I think that she can carry this momentum forward that she got\u2064 from all\u200b of the events that she&#8217;s had, not just the grassroots,&#8221; said Iowa GOP state \u2062Sen. Chris Cournoyer, who endorsed Haley for president in July. &#8220;But I think to continue to build on the momentum that she&#8217;s had through her work across Iowa and the first debate \u200cis just really continue to hone in on those messages that are important to American citizens.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A sign of Haley \u200dtackling the concerns of the American public is that she is set \u2064to give a major\u2062 economic speech \u200bon Friday in which she will call for\u2062 the end of \u2064the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lawmakers-debate-future-infrastructure-bills\/\" title=\"Lawmakers debate future infrastructure bills\">federal gas tax<\/a>. The\u2064 speech \u200dcomes as inflation rose 1.6% in August, according \u2063to the Bureau of\u2062 Economic Analysis, and\u200c as the nation&#8217;s debt hit $33 \u200dtrillion for the first time. &#8220;We\u2019re going \u200cto stop the spending,\u2063 and \u200bwe\u2019re going to come out with another \u2064list of plans on how we&#8217;re going to move all of the functions from the federal government down to\u200c the states\u2063 so that \u2062we can reduce the size of the federal government and empower the\u200c people in the states,&#8221; \u2063Haley told Newsmax over the weekend. &#8220;We\u2019re going to get our budget back on track. That&#8217;s why we need\u200d an accountant in the White House.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Beyond polling, a\u200d campaign event after\u200b the debate in Indian Land, South Carolina, hit its max capacity \u200dleading to three\u200b overflow rooms, which Haley supporters point to as one example of her growing rise in the primary race. &#8220;The energy is palpable,&#8221; said former New Hampshire GOP state Rep. and Speaker Pro Tempore Kim Rice. &#8220;We go into these town \u2064halls, and it&#8217;s standing room only. People are really just energized and excited to see her.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think as these debates go\u2063 on, Nikki\u2063 is just going to keep gaining more and more momentum,&#8221; Rice, who also \u200dserves as Haley&#8217;s New Hampshire state campaign co-chair, added. &#8220;People have \u2062underestimated her over and over \u2064again. And she has continued to surpass\u200b the expectations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>With the growing enthusiasm Haley has amassed, not unnoticed by other presidential campaigns, Haley could\u2064 enter the next debate at risk of attacks from her opponents. A\u200b memo from her campaign manager Betsy Ankney pointed to polling from Trump and DeSantis showing Haley&#8217;s rising\u2064 stock in Iowa and New Hampshire.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Trump team released its polling in Iowa and New Hampshire showing Nikki in third place\u200d in both states,&#8221; wrote Ankney. &#8220;The DeSantis team leaked its polling showing Nikki in a solid \u200cthird place in Iowa. A poll conducted by\u2062 an independent group in \u2064New Hampshire shows Nikki tied with DeSantis for second. Keep in mind that at this point, DeSantis\u2019s side has spent over $17 million on air, and there has been roughly $5 million spent on Nikki\u2019s behalf.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The next Federal Election Commission\u200d filing deadlines aren&#8217;t due until mid-October, when it will be revealed just how much of a financial boost Haley has received, although\u200d her campaign touted the more than $1\u2064 million raised in under 72 hours after the first debate \u2063as an indication that Republican voters are giving more\u2064 notice. The campaign has seen almost 20,000 new unique online\u2062 doors in a two-week period after the debate, and 24 hours \u2063after\u200d the first debate, the campaign garnered more online \u200bgrassroots donations than in any other single day.<\/p>\n<p>Plus, a slew of Iowa lawmakers and business leaders endorsed Haley after the debate, \u2064including\u200c GOP state Rep. Shannon Latham, while \u2064the campaign announced a list of New Hampshire chairs in all of\u2062 the\u2064 Granite State&#8217;s 10 counties.<\/p>\n<p>But Haley is not \u200dwithout detractors who are skeptical that she or any other\u2064 candidate can take on \u2063Trump, who has not relinquished his lead among the\u2064 GOP base. A RealClearPolitics national poll average has Haley in fourth place at 5.7%, far below Trump at \u206256.6%. As the former president&#8217;s legal \u200cbattles continue, \u2062he&#8217;s only\u2064 seen his support and fundraising figures increase.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Here&#8217;s\u200b the problem for Haley. This is \u2062a one-person race and a whole bunch of people in the second-tier polling at single digits,&#8221; said Ford O&#8217;Connell, a Republican strategist based\u2062 in Florida. &#8220;She can gain \u2062headlines, she can show CNN polls that show her beating Biden, \u200cbut unless something seismic occurs, this race\u2064 is pretty much over. All that it needs \u2062to end is for Trump to win \u200bIowa.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And it&#8217;s not \u200djust Haley who&#8217;s struggling to take down Trump. DeSantis, \u2062Trump&#8217;s closest competitor, has sometimes floundered to remain the dominant non-Trump candidate. The past several months have seen the Florida governor fall in poll numbers and donor skepticism about his campaign amid several\u2063 campaign resets.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Even when they do it DeSantis vs. Trump,\u200b he&#8217;s still \u200donly getting 22%. Trump\u200b is \u200dgetting 56% to 60% of national polls,&#8221; O&#8217;Connell continued. &#8220;The other part, the \u2062key part, is that\u200b people aren&#8217;t leaving the race because \u200bin a traditional situation, you&#8217;d expect for people to leave the race to get down to two people, \u200bbut they&#8217;re not leaving\u200c the race.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Yet, Katon \u200dDawson,\u2064 former chairman of the South Carolina Republican Party and a Haley surrogate, told the Washington Examiner that Haley&#8217;s second\u200d debate performance will \u200cfurther\u200b endear her to a national audience. &#8220;It&#8217;s another opportunity to show the country that Nikki Haley has all the right stuff \u200bit takes to win the presidency,&#8221; Dawson said, &#8220;especially amidst the turmoil that is happening during this election cycle \u200dwith\u200c former President Trump [and] current President Biden. Everyone knows that the independent\u2062 voters in America are going\u2063 to name the next president, and Nikki Haley has the best\u2063 chance to appeal to those voters, along with the conservative movement that\u200b is driving the Republican primary at the moment in time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Iowa\u2063 GOP state Rep. Austin Harris, the\u200c first Hawkeye lawmaker to support Haley&#8217;s 2024 campaign, said that one factor in Haley dethroning \u2062Trump for the nomination is to not become a poor imitation of him. \u200b&#8221;She doesn&#8217;t need to run to be the anti-Trump or the Trump alternative. \u200cShe just needs to be yourself,&#8221; he said. &#8220;That&#8217;s something I think she&#8217;s doing\u200b differently than the rest of the candidates in the field. You got the Chris \u200bChristies of the world who\u2063 want\u200b to be the &#8216;Never Trumper,&#8217;\u2064 the &#8216;anti-Trumper,&#8217; And then you have \u2063Ron\u2062 DeSantis, Mike Pence, Vivek [Ramaswamy], and Tim Scott, who want to be Trump Lite, and I think that&#8217;s shown not to be an appetite.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Then you have Nikki Haley who&#8217;s standing out in her own, laying all of her cards on the deck, speaking candidly with\u200c the voters, treating \u200dthem like adults, and\u2062 giving her own resume\u2062 and her own views on things,&#8221; he added. &#8220;And\u200d so far, once \u200cshe&#8217;s been able \u200bto do that to a national audience, it&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ivermectin-is-safe-and-effective-the-evidence\/\" title=\"Ivermectin Is Safe and Effective: The Evidence\">shown positive results<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Both Harris and Cournoyer, the Iowa state senator, told the Washington Examiner anecdotes of an\u2064 increase in residents who have attended a Haley \u200dcampaign\u200d event. &#8220;She had a meet and greet in Grand Mound, Iowa. The population of Grand Mound is\u200d 615 people, and 300 people showed up to this town hall,&#8221; said Cournoryer. &#8220;I mean, it was absolutely phenomenal. I was looking around the room, and there were so \u2062many faces that I \u200cdidn&#8217;t even recognize.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As voters in the early nominating seek to evaluate Haley&#8217;s authenticity, Cournoyer said the Trump-less second debate will give Haley a\u2062 chance to further appeal to voters. And if Haley is fiercely targeted \u2063by\u200c her opponents, Cournoyer said Haley won&#8217;t \u2064be easily ruffled.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;During her time at the United Nations, \u200cAmbassador Haley \u200csat across the table from hostile adversaries dealing with tense and challenging issues, so I\u2019m confident she \u200cwill have no problem handling \u200djabs on a\u200b debate \u2063stage,&#8221;\u200c she said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/nikki-haley-gains-momentum-second-debate\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON\u200d EXAMINER<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<h2> In what ways\u2062 has Nikki Haley&#8217;s campaign capitalized on comments and support from both her own \u200cparty \u2064and the \u200copposition<\/h2>\n<p><span>  The \u2063momentum Nikki Haley is gaining ahead of \u200dthe second Republican debate is significant and cannot be \u2062ignored. Her \u2064standout performance at \u200bthe first GOP \u2062primary debate has generated enthusiasm\u200c among her\u200c supporters and has translated into increased donations and improved poll ratings.<\/p>\n<p>One poll that stands out is a\u200c CNN poll released earlier this month, which showed Haley as\u200d the only Republican candidate who beat\u2062 President Joe Biden in a hypothetical\u200c matchup. This is a\u2064 significant finding, as \u2063it puts Haley&#8217;s support over the president\u200c outside of\u200b the margin of error. \u2062Haley \u2064herself believes that her\u2062 ability\u2062 to\u200d beat\u200c Biden by 6\u200c points\u2063 is \u2062due \u200dto Americans&#8217; desire for a new generational\u200d leader and a departure \u200dfrom\u200b the negativity\u2062 of the past.<\/p>\n<p>Haley&#8217;s campaign has\u2063 also capitalized on a comment made by a senior Democratic strategist to Politico, which stated that the \u200bDemocrats \u2062would be in trouble \u200bif\u200d Haley were\u2063 the GOP nominee.\u2063 This further supports the belief \u200cthat Haley\u2063 could make a race against Biden more than just competitive.<\/p>\n<p>While Haley still lags \u200bbehind Trump and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis in some \u200cstate \u2063polls, her supporters remain confident \u2064in\u200b her momentum. They believe that Haley\u2064 can carry forward the energy generated from her grassroots events and build on\u200c the messages that resonate with American citizens.<\/p>\n<p>A testament to Haley&#8217;s ability to address the concerns of the American public is her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/haley-heads-into-second-debate-banking-on-keeping-up-momentum-from-the-first\/\" title=\"Haley relies on first debate's momentum for second.\">upcoming major \u200deconomic speech<\/a>, in which she will call \u2064for the end of the\u200d federal\u200b gas tax. This proposal comes at a time when inflation is rising and the nation&#8217;s debt\u200d is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chinas-q2-gdp-growth-slows-to-0-8-q-q-raises-stimulus-expectations\/\" title=\"China's Q2 GDP growth decelerates to 0.8% q\/q, heightening stimulus hopes.\">hitting \u200brecord highs<\/a>. Haley&#8217;s commitment to \u200creducing\u200c government spending \u2064and empowering the states \u2063has \u200bstruck a chord \u200cwith her\u2064 supporters, who \u200bsee the need for \u2062an accountant\u2062 in the White House.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond polling and policy proposals, Haley&#8217;s \u2062growing \u2062rise in the primary race is evident in the size and energy of her campaign events. A recent \u2064event in South Carolina had\u2063 to utilize three overflow rooms\u200d due to its\u2064 max capacity. \u200dThis level\u200c of\u200b support and enthusiasm\u200c is a\u200c clear indication that Haley&#8217;s campaign is gaining traction.<\/p>\n<p>As the second Republican National Committee debate approaches, Nikki\u200c Haley finds herself in a position of\u2063 increasing momentum. \u2063Her standout debate\u2063 performance, improved poll ratings, and enthusiastic support \u200bbase all contribute to her growing \u200bdominance\u200b in the primary race.\u200b While former President Donald Trump remains the\u200d front-runner, Haley&#8217;s consistent rise\u2062 in popularity indicates \u2064that \u2062she\u2062 is a \u200dforce to be reckoned with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley is gaining momentum for the second RNC debate. Her standout performance in the first GOP primary debate boosted enthusiasm at early state rallies, propelling her campaign forward. As a former U.N. 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