DeSantis was declared to be the second-place finisher by the Associated Press at 10:20 p.m.<\/p>\n
Despite the loss, Haley channeled her inner Hillary Clinton and still declared that the race is between herself and former President Donald Trump \u2014 who won the night by a landslide.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen you look at how we\u2019re doing in New Hampshire, in South Carolina, and beyond, I can safely say tonight Iowa made this Republican primary a two-person race,\u201d Haley claimed.<\/p>\n
Nikki Haley: \u201cTonight, Iowa made this Republican primary a two person race!\u201dpic.twitter.com\/vybpPtemW3<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 TheBlaze (@theblaze) January 16, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n\n Obviously, the comment was widely mocked on social media.<\/p>\n Conservative publicist Jillian Anderson responded, \u201csomeone tell her she came in 3rd.\u201d<\/p>\n someone tell her she came in 3rd<\/p>\n \u2014 Jillian Anderson (@Jillie_Alexis) January 16, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n\n \u201cNikki Haley pulled off a Hillary Clinton-like gaffe: She assumed a second-place finish, and her speechwriters didn\u2019t update her message based on the results,\u201d Rev. Ben Johnson tweeted.<\/p>\n Nikki Haley pulled off a Hillary Clinton-like gaffe: She assumed a second-place finish, and her speechwriters didn\u2019t update her message based on the results.<\/p>\n \u2014 Rev. Ben Johnson (@TheRightsWriter) January 16, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n\n \u201cDoes she realize she came in third yet? Has someone called her up to let her know?\u201d conservative writer Ian Miles-Cheong wrote.<\/p>\n \u201cI can safely say, tonight Iowa made this Republican primary a two-person race.\u201d \u2014 Nikki Haley, who came in third place. Does she realize she came in third yet? Has someone called her up to let her know? pic.twitter.com\/HxkWaNzai8<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) January 16, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n\n Nikki Haley:<\/p>\n Iowa made this a two-person race!<\/p>\n Also Nikki Haley:<\/p>\n Finishes 3rd place in Iowa. #IowaCaucus<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/krDiRVUMMp<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 A B O U \u2022 A M A R A (@AbouAmara) January 16, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n\n Trump had blasted \u201cglobalist RINO\u201d Nikki Haley hours before the start of the Iowa caucuses.<\/p>\n In a post on Truth Social on Monday, Trump wrote, \u201cHaley can never win in the General Election because she doesn\u2019t have MAGA, and never will!\u201d Trump continued, \u201cThe days of the RINOS and non-AMERICA FIRST candidates are OVER!\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cNikki is a Globalist RINO, backed by American\u2019s for Chinese Growth, the Charles Koch con job,\u201d Trump wrote. \u201cIt\u2019s not going to happen for her, or DeSanctimonious! Vivek Votes are wasted, should come to \u2018TRUMP.\u2019 MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!\u201d<\/p>\n Much of Haley\u2019s support appears to be from Democrats.<\/p>\n A poll<\/a> conducted ahead of the Iowa caucuses by NBC News, the Des Moines Register, and Iowa pollster Selzer & Co. found that Haley supporters in Iowa are twice as likely to vote for Joe Biden as they are Donald Trump, should she not win the Republican nomination.<\/p>\n The pollsters asked likely Iowa caucus-goers, \u201cIf Donald Trump is the Republican nominee in the general election in November, would you vote for him, vote for Joe Biden, vote for independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., or vote for some other third-party candidate?\u201d<\/p>\n Across the board, just 11 percent of Republican caucus-goes said they would flip and vote for Biden if Trump is the nominee. Looking only at Haley supporters, that number jumped to a whopping 43 percent.<\/p>\n Just 23 percent of Haley\u2019s supporters said they would vote for Trump over Biden.<\/p>\n In contrast, 64 percent of DeSantis supporters said that they would vote for Trump if he was the nominee.<\/p>\n NBC News<\/a> reports, \u201cThese new findings from the latest NBC News\/Des Moines Register\/Mediacom poll of Iowa further illustrate the degree to which Haley is bringing in support from independents, Democrats and Republicans who have been uneasy with Trump\u2019s takeover of the GOP. Fully half of her Iowa caucus supporters are independents or crossover Democrats, according to the survey results. Overall, Haley took 20% for second place in the survey, compared to 48% for Trump.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThe poll also shows three-quarters of caucusgoers believing Trump can defeat Biden despite the former president\u2019s legal challenges. But again, a majority of Haley\u2019s supporters think it will be nearly impossible for Trump to win,\u201d the report added.<\/p>\n In 2019, Haley was elected to Boeing\u2019s board of directors months after leaving her post in the Trump administration. At the time, she had a net worth less than $1 million.<\/p>\n \u201cPost her tenure,\u00a0reports surfaced<\/a>\u00a0that Haley boosted her fortune eight-fold \u2014 to $8 million \u2014 after leaving the Trump administration,\u201d the\u00a0New York Post<\/a>\u00a0reported at the time.<\/p>\n Soon after, the former UN ambassador purchased a $2.4 million waterfront estate on Kiawah Island, South Carolina.<\/p>\n Sen. Paul\u2019s posts continued, \u201cWhile most others were decrying the mistakes of the past 20 years, and fighting for an America First foreign policy, Nikki Haley was aligning herself with and declaring her foreign policy allies to be John McCain and Lindsey Graham.\u201d<\/p>\n The post Delusional Nikki Haley Declares it\u2019s Now a \u2018Two Person Race\u2019 \u2013 After Coming in THIRD (VIDEO)<\/a> appeared first on The Gateway Pundit<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Neoconservative presidential candidate Nikki Haley declared it is now a \u201ctwo-person race\u201d in Iowa after she took third<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
\n\u201cRon DeSanctimonious, at least, is MAGA-Lite,\u201d Trump continued. \u201cRemember, I think MAGA is almost ALL of the Republican Party.\u201d<\/p>\n\n