{"id":2139149,"date":"2024-01-03T07:16:01","date_gmt":"2024-01-03T12:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nikki-haley-keeps-one-eye-on-iowa-as-she-seeks-to-win-new-hampshire-primary\/"},"modified":"2024-01-03T07:22:01","modified_gmt":"2024-01-03T12:22:01","slug":"nikki-haley-keeps-one-eye-on-iowa-as-she-seeks-to-win-new-hampshire-primary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nikki-haley-keeps-one-eye-on-iowa-as-she-seeks-to-win-new-hampshire-primary\/","title":{"rendered":"Nikki Haley eyes Iowa, aims for New Hampshire primary win"},"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\">20<\/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%2Fnikki-haley-keeps-one-eye-on-iowa-as-she-seeks-to-win-new-hampshire-primary%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=2139149&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\u2062 Nikki Haley faces \u200ca unique \u2064challenge in the final two weeks before\u200d the Jan. 15 Iowa\u200d caucuses.<\/h2>\n<p>She must simultaneously woo Iowans who could give her an \u200cadded boost \u200babove rival Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) while\u200d stumping in New Hampshire, where independent voters could help her defeat\u2064 former\u200c President Donald Trump, the front-runner, in the state&#8217;s \u2063primary \u2062on Jan. 23.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>TRUMP HOLDS FOX NEWS TOWN HALL TO COUNTER CNN IOWA DEBATE\u2064 WITH DESANTIS AND HALEY<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Unlike DeSantis \u2063and to a lesser extent Trump, Haley has not staked her\u200c 2024 campaign on winning the Iowa caucuses. She has\u200b instead placed a sizable emphasis\u200d on New Hampshire and her home\u2062 state\u200d of South Carolina. But\u200b given Iowa&#8217;s outsize \u200cadvantage \u2062in the primary, a strong showing there will be \u2064crucial in \u200bher bid to replace DeSantis as the only <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/87-year-old-new-jersey-state-senator-gives-up-on-re-election-after-bailing-on-gop\/\" title=\"87-Year-Old New Jersey State Senator Gives Up On Re-Election After Bailing On GOP\">viable alternative candidate<\/a> to Trump.<\/p>\n<p>The\u2063 Florida\u200c governor has gone all in for Iowa, campaigning\u200b in all 99 counties\u2064 and positioning himself for an outright win or a strong second-place finish behind\u2064 Trump. Haley&#8217;s campaign and allies are covertly\u200b hoping a second-place finish\u2064 in Iowa would steal momentum away from \u200cDeSantis ahead of the\u2063 New \u200cHampshire primary, where Haley is hoping for a second-place finish or better \u200das well.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think the expectations for Haley in Iowa\u2063 are appropriately less, but if she can overperform there, then I think she&#8217;s got, I think,\u2063 a strong team waiting for her in New Hampshire led by the most popular Republican in the state,&#8221; said Jim Merrill, a \u200cseasoned New Hampshire GOP strategist, of Haley and the\u200d support of Gov. Chris Sununu (R-NH). &#8220;And then she&#8217;s going \u2064to go to her home state in South Carolina. So \u200bit feels like a\u2063 pretty shrewd strategy that they&#8217;re executing here with\u200c the final two weeks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s tougher to organize in Iowa because it&#8217;s harder to find the caucus people &#8230; and it&#8217;s heavily dominated by evangelical Christians,&#8221; said Linda Fowler, \u2064a political scientist at Dartmouth University. &#8220;So\u200c with that context, I think New Hampshire \u200bmakes sense for her. Plus,\u2062 she has an \u200centhusiastic governor who&#8217;s stumping for her.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The former U.N. ambassador and South Carolina governor has \u200dbarnstormed the\u2064 Granite State with Sununu since she earned\u2064 his\u200c backing last month. Yet Haley\u2064 hasn&#8217;t quite\u200b abandoned Iowa and even \u2064plans to bring Sununu \u200dwith\u2062 her to campaign\u2063 in Des Moines on Friday. \u200dShe finished the final days of 2023 in \u200cthe Hawkeye State\u2062 and will face off against\u2063 DeSantis during a CNN debate in Iowa on Jan. 10. (Trump is\u200b skipping the debate for \u200da Fox\u2064 News town hall at the same time.)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Nikki isn\u2019t taking \u2063any voter for granted. She&#8217;s traveling across Iowa, answering every question \u2063and shaking\u200c every hand. We\u2019re fighting for\u2063 every inch,&#8221; said Olivia Perez-Cubas, Haley&#8217;s spokeswoman.<\/p>\n<p>There is some historical precedence that Haley&#8217;s gamble could pay off. The late\u200b Arizona Sen. John McCain in his\u200d 2000 presidential run\u200c mostly\u2064 ignored Iowa and went \u200con to beat George W. Bush in New Hampshire \u200cbut lost the South Carolina \u2064primary. He would ultimately\u200b lose the nomination to Bush. But during his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tom-cotton-democrats-have-discarded-the-clintons-safe-legal-and-rare-abortion-stance\/\" title=\"Tom Cotton: Democrats Have Discarded The Clintons \u2018Safe, Legal, And Rare\u2019 Abortion Stance\">2008 presidential run<\/a>,\u200b McCain again bypassed Iowa and won the New Hampshire primary \u2062and\u2062 the South Carolina\u2064 primary before\u2063 eventually becoming\u200b the GOP \u200dnominee.<\/p>\n<p>Haley&#8217;s allies aren&#8217;t wasting any funds in helping \u2062her replicate McCain&#8217;s 2008 strategy.<\/p>\n<p>SFA Fund, the \u200bsuper PAC backing Haley&#8217;s \u2062campaign, outspent all other \u2063groups in 2023 at\u200d $42 million, according to the ad \u2062tracking company AdImpact. That&#8217;s roughly $2 million more than DeSantis&#8217;s\u2062 super PAC, Never Back Down, spent\u2063 in 2023 at $40.2\u200c million. Trump&#8217;s\u2064 super PAC, MAGA Inc., spent $34.4 million.<\/p>\n<p>Americans for Prosperity, the billionaire Koch family-backed group, is spending $70 million to boost Haley in Iowa. &#8220;We&#8217;re just now starting \u2064to see the \u200bmoney, and it could make a\u200d difference,&#8221; Fowler said of Americans\u2063 for Prosperity&#8217;s efforts to help Haley.<\/p>\n<p>The\u200c DeSantis campaign slammed both Haley and Trump and their\u2062 supporters for spending more than $38.4 million in negative ad spending against the governor, the most out of all\u2063 the 2024 candidates.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And despite her team\u2019s \u2064best efforts to keep expectations \u2062low for Haley in the\u200c Hawkeye State, the numbers don\u2019t lie,&#8221; \u2063wrote Andrew Romeo, DeSantis&#8217;s campaign spokesman, \u2062in an\u200d email Tuesday. &#8220;The Wall Street Journal\u2019s John McCormick noted yesterday \u2063how Haley and the super PAC supporting her will combine to drastically outspend the competition down the stretch in \u200cIowa.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Richard Arenberg, senior fellow in international and public affairs and visiting\u200c political science professor at Brown University, \u200btold the Washington Examiner that a\u200b respectable finish in Iowa will help Haley as she prepares\u200b to battle\u200d against Trump in New \u2064Hampshire, a state that\u2064 will be decided by independents who make up the\u2063 majority of voters.<\/p>\n<p>But a recent flap-up over the origin of the Civil War\u200d could distract from Haley&#8217;s efforts. Haley \u200ccaused a stir last\u200d week when \u2064she \u200ddidn&#8217;t mention slavery as the cause of the war during a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tv-network-ratings-drop-during-bidens-first-full-week-in-office\/\" title=\"TV Network Ratings Drop During Biden\u2019s First Full Week in Office\">town hall event<\/a> in New Hampshire. She cleaned up her comments in \u200bthe aftermath of the\u200d backlash.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think \u200dthat had a kind of \u2064chilling effect on the enthusiasm of some independents that maybe she could energize to come into the Republican primary and vote for her,&#8221;\u200d Arenberg\u2063 said. &#8220;But a surprising second place in Iowa \u200ccould maybe warm \u200cthat up again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Scott Huffmon, a political scientist and the founder of the Center for Public Opinion and Policy Research at Winthrop University, claimed the controversy wouldn&#8217;t change\u2063 her performance in Iowa. It &#8220;could move the odd New Hampshire independent,&#8221; but it would \u2062have &#8220;no impact on South Carolina.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And, despite her promise\u200d to the Sons of Confederate Veterans to not remove the Confederate flag from \u2063the statehouse when she first ran for governor, she publicly \u200bcalled for it to come down after the \u200cMother Emanuel massacre, so that \u200binoculates her somewhat,&#8221; he added referencing \u200bthe 2015 murders of nine African American members of Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina.<\/p>\n<p>Still,\u200b Haley must face the gargantuan task\u2062 of somehow beating Trump in New Hampshire, where\u200b he polls at 46.3%, according to the RealClearPolitics average of the Granite State, and Haley \u200cpolls at 24.8%.<\/p>\n<p>CLICK HERE \u200bTO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Trump is still king of the hill in New Hampshire. \u2064No question about it. His support has been pretty static. \u2063It hasn&#8217;t really moved up\u2062 and hasn&#8217;t really moved down,&#8221; said Merrill. &#8220;Haley has accomplished, I think,\u2064 half of\u200b the battle, which is getting yourself out\u2064 of the scrum\u2064 of all the other candidates, whether \u2062current candidates \u2062or those that have withdrawn like [former Vice President Mike] Pence or \u2063 [Sen. Tim] \u2064Scott [R-SC] \u200d to position herself as the No. 2.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The other half of the battle, \u2062Merrill added, \u2062is converting undecided\u200d voters and encouraging other people \u200cto\u200c consider voting due to the state&#8217;s same<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nothing-has-changed-lawmaker-fears-loophole-in-wisconsin-elections-will-make-midterms-a-rerun-of-2020\/\" title=\"\u2018Nothing Has Changed\u2019: Lawmaker Fears Loophole in Wisconsin Elections Will Make Midterms a Rerun of 2020\">-day registration law<\/a>. &#8220;I&#8217;m sure the Haley campaign\u200d has worked hard to identify people \u200bwho aren&#8217;t currently registered but who could \u200bchoose to do so\u200c Election\u2062 Day and turn them out,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<h2> What financial support\u2064 has Nikki Haley received from her\u2064 allies, and how might it influence her chances in the upcoming caucuses?<\/h2>\n<p><span>  Tice in New Hampshire,&#8221; Fowler said. &#8220;They are a pretty moderate group of voters, and they will expect \u2064someone to acknowledge historical facts.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Despite \u2063the challenge ahead, Haley remains optimistic and determined in\u200b her\u200c campaign efforts. \u2062She continues \u2062to travel extensively, engaging \u200dwith voters, answering their questions, and making personal connections. Her team has devised a shrewd strategy that focuses on strong\u2063 showings in both Iowa and New Hampshire, leveraging the support of influential figures like Gov. Chris Sununu. They also aim to replicate\u200d the successful \u2064campaign strategy \u2063of\u200b Sen. John McCain, who bypassed Iowa in 2008 and went on to win the crucial New Hampshire primary.<\/p>\n<p>Haley&#8217;s allies are providing significant financial\u2064 support to bolster her chances. SFA Fund, her super PAC, has outspent all other groups, investing \u200b$42 million in \u2063her campaign. Americans for \u2062Prosperity, the Koch family-backed \u2062group, has committed $70 million to boost Haley&#8217;s \u200bchances in Iowa. These substantial financial\u2062 investments could make a significant difference\u2062 in the final weeks leading up to the caucuses.<\/p>\n<p>While Haley faces criticism and negative ad spending \u2063from both DeSantis and Trump \u2064camps, she \u200dremains \u200bundeterred. She aims\u200d to position herself as the viable alternative candidate to Trump, gaining momentum with respectable finishes in both\u200c Iowa and New Hampshire. A strong showing in Iowa would\u2064 be crucial in replacing DeSantis as the frontrunner&#8217;s primary challenger.<\/p>\n<p>However, recent controversies, such \u2064as the omission of the cause of the Civil War during a town hall event in New Hampshire, could potentially impact Haley&#8217;s support among independent voters in the state. Acknowledging historical facts and satisfying the expectations of moderate voters will be essential \u2062for Haley to maintain their enthusiasm.<\/p>\n<p>As the final two weeks before the Iowa caucuses\u200c unfold,\u200b all eyes are on Nikki Haley and her unique challenge. She faces the task of simultaneously wooing Iowans and\u2064 independent voters in New Hampshire. With careful strategizing, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/china-prepares-afghanistan-business-expo-to-unleash-talibans-market-potential\/\" title=\"China Prepares Afghanistan Business Expo to Unleash Taliban's 'Market Potential'\">significant financial backing<\/a>, and a determined campaign effort,\u200d Haley aims to position herself as the strongest contender against Trump, leading the\u2062 way \u2063for a new Republican presidential\u2063 candidate in 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley faces a dual challenge as she approaches the Jan. 15 Iowa caucuses. She must win over Iowans to surpass Gov. 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