Haley's rise in the polls prompted former President Trump to ramp up his attacks on his 2024 rival, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, at an Iowa rally on Friday.
“Nikki Haley's campaign is funded by Biden donors,” President Trump told Iowa voters gathered in Sioux Center. He called Haley, who served as U.N. ambassador during his administration, a “globalist.”
President Trump said, “She loves the Earth. First of all, I love America.” “The establishment losers and traitors who are far behind us in the Republican primaries cannot be trusted on taxes, trade or anything else. They are globalists and always will be.”
President Trump has set her sights on Haley, with multiple polls showing her gaining enough support to surpass Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and move into second place. Trump holds a commanding lead in polls of Republican primary voters, but the campaign released a new attack ad targeting Haley in New Hampshire this week, casting Haley's position as Democratic President Biden. I tried to connect it with the position of
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Former U.S. president and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at the “Commit to the Caucuses” rally at the Northern Iowa Events Center in Mason City, Iowa, on January 5, 2024. (Christian Monterrosa/AFP via Getty Images)
Haley is gaining momentum in the Granite State after winning the endorsement of popular New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu last month. Sununu has endorsed her and has since joined her campaign.
She is also supported by Americans for Prosperity (AFP) Action, the political arm of an influential and well-funded conservative public advocacy group with a strong grassroots campaign.
But Haley has also made unforced mistakes, such as fiddling with voters' questions about the causes of the Civil War and telling voters in New Hampshire that she would “fix” the results of the Iowa caucuses, which led to her rivals It allows the onslaught of.
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Former United Nations Ambassador and 2024 Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley (right) and New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu during a campaign event in Des Moines, Iowa, USA on Friday, January 5, 2024. (Catherine Gamble/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Haley spent days cleaning up her comments on the Civil War, believing it was caused by slavery, as Republican opponents attacked her message and Democrats raised concerns of racism. It was revealed that
President Trump said at the rally that Haley “doesn't have what it takes.”
Nachama Soloveitchik, a spokeswoman for Haley's campaign, fired back at Trump in a statement to the New York Times.
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Campaign signs as former U.S. president and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during the “Commit to Caucus” rally at the North Iowa Events Center in Mason City, Iowa, on January 5, 2024. Participants raising the following. (Christian Monterrosa/AFP via Getty Images)
“If President Trump feels so strongly about his false attacks, he should stop hiding and defend them on the Des Moines debate stage,” Soloveitchik said.
Trump added: “You probably don't remember that Nikki Haley passed one of the toughest anti-illegal immigration laws in the country in 2011 because he was still a liberal in New York City.” Ta.
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President Trump, satisfied with his commanding lead in the polls, has refused to participate in the Republican primary debates, calling his challengers “stooges of the establishment” who will “sell out” voters. he accused.
“They will betray you just as they betrayed me,” Trump said.
Fox News Digital's Paul Steinhauser and Anders Hagstrom contributed to this report.
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