{"id":594313,"date":"2023-10-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-14T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/haley-closes-in-on-desantis-as-biggest-challenger-to-trump\/"},"modified":"2023-10-15T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-10-14T21:00:00","slug":"haley-closes-in-on-desantis-as-biggest-challenger-to-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/haley-closes-in-on-desantis-as-biggest-challenger-to-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"#Haley closes in on DeSantis as biggest challenger to Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/10\/haleynikki_101323getty_haley.jpg?w=900\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Nikki Haley is increasingly being viewed as the most viable alternative to former President Trump, as Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) continues to struggle to gain traction in the primary.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The former United Nations ambassador received widespread praise for her performances in the GOP primary debates, has bumped up in primary polling and become an increasing target of Trump\u2019s. Another former GOP presidential candidate, former Rep. Will Hurd (Texas), also threw his support behind Haley this week.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr1_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>While DeSantis remains a distant second to Trump \u2014 who is the leading favorite for the GOP nomination \u2014 Haley is steadily coming up on the Florida governor\u2019s heels.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNikki Haley\u2019s rise or piqued interest, among particularly donors and Trump critics is due more to Ron DeSantis\u2019s falling in the polls than anything else,\u201d said Ford O\u2019Connell, a Republican strategist.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s critics at the national level have taken notice.<\/p>\n<p>Hurd dropped out of the GOP primary and endorsed Haley, arguing Haley \u201chas shown a willingness to articulate a different vision for the country than Donald Trump and has an unmatched grasp on the complexities of our foreign policy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a column for the Washington Post, conservative commentator George Will called on Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) to drop out of the race and get behind Haley.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the South Carolina senator\u2019s choice: He can acknowledge that his energetic campaigning has failed to enkindle sufficient enthusiasm and depart as he campaigned, cheerfully,\u201d Will wrote. \u201cOr he can try to become someone whom, to his credit, he has no aptitude for being \u2014 another peddler of synthetic anger, stoking today\u2019s rage culture.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr2_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Will, a longtime columnist at the Post, is also a contributor to cable <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a> channel NewsNation, an outlet that is owned by Nexstar <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Media<\/a> Group, which also owns The Hill.<\/p>\n<p>Haley\u2019s campaign has employed a strategy of focusing heavily on retail politics in the early contest states, which her allies say is a strength of hers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe rise of Nikki is real in New Hampshire,\u201d said Matthew Bartlett, a New Hampshire-based GOP strategist. \u201cIt has h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ened because she has campaigned incredibly tough in an incredibly authentic New Hampshire presidential way. She\u2019s done over 50 town halls and events. She\u2019s been meeting with voters. She\u2019s really earned every step.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr3_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Haley has seen a rise in state-level polling, particularly in New Hampshire. Polling from Suffolk University, The Boston Globe and USA Today\u00a0released earlier this month found Haley in second place behind Trump, who led her 49 percent to 19 percent.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Nationally, Haley has moved into third place, closely behind DeSantis. A Fox News poll released this week showed Haley growing her support to 10 percent, while DeSantis came in at 13 percent. The same poll showed Trump dominating the field with 59 percent support.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In a Real Clear Politics polling average, Trump leads the field with 58.3 percent support<strong>, <\/strong>DeSantis trails at 12.9 percent support and Haley comes in third with 7.6 percent support.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr4_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Her recent rise in the polls comes after two particularly strong debate performances from Haley, in which she styled herself as the adult in the room on the crowded debate stage. Haley\u2019s campaign reported raising more than $11 million in the third quarter of the year and ended the quarter with $11.6 million cash on hand \u2014 and her campaign gained close to 40,000 new donors.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans also point out Trump has seemingly moved his ire toward Haley as she climbs in the polls and gets more attention in the media. Following the second debate, Trump called Haley \u201cbirdbrain\u201d on his Truth Social platform and his campaign followed up by delivering a birdcage to her hotel.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDonald Trump absolutely views Nikki Haley as a threat,\u201d Stroman said. \u201cOne thing that is going to be a little bit interesting is to see how he goes after her and in what type of way.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr5_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>\u201cNikki Haley was one of the few members of his administration to leave the White House on excellent terms,\u201d he continued. \u201cHe\u2019s always going to punch down and the problem for him is that Nikki seems to be on the up.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s allies caution about reading too much into the former president\u2019s attacks on his former ambassador.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that that is showmanship and he is dealing with the fact that right now, she appears to be flavor of the month,\u201d O\u2019Connell said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr6_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>As for DeSantis, the Florida governor downplayed her experience as U.N. ambassador during a <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trip<\/a> to New Hampshire.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the U.N. is a worthless organization, quite frankly. So that, to me, is not something. All they do is sanction Israel,\u201d DeSantis said. \u201cI think that their behavior has been a complete disgrace. But you also have the issue of, OK, who\u2019s fluent in this stuff, who knows kind of where they\u2019re trying to go with America\u2019s role, and quite frankly, most of those other Republican candidates, they\u2019re just rehashing the failed foreign policy of the last 25 years where we ended up in Afghanistan for 20 years.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Republicans note that DeSantis has poured more resources into Iowa versus New Hampshire and argue Iowa will set the stage for the primary season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr7_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>\u201cThere is a very long time before voters in Iowa will cast their ballots,\u201d Stroman said. \u201cNo candidate is getting ready to be coronated. Nobody is getting ready to be out of the race.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Dan Eberhart, a DeSantis donor, urged the governor to reassure donors amid the negative headlines surrounding his campaign.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It comes as the Haley and DeSantis campaigns courted megadonors in Dallas on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDonors are looking for an alternative to Trump. If not DeSantis, who? It\u2019s on DeSantis to reassure donors that this is a two-man race,\u201d Eberhart said. \u201cDonors were there but have started to waiver because of all the negative media coverage of the DeSantis campaign.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Still, it\u2019s difficult for many political observers to see how roughly three months out from the first nominating contest anyone can leapfrog over Trump\u2019s massive lead.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBarring something extreme, Donald Trump is going to be the Republican presidential nominee and there is pretty much nothing that the Trump critics, at least on the Republican side, can do to stop that from happening,\u201d O\u2019Connell said. \u201cThey [the donors] are starting to see the field as Trump is and that Trump has unfinished business and it is his time. And I don\u2019t know if anyone can overcome that narrative because it\u2019s setting in and it\u2019s setting in fast.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>However, Trump\u2019s seemingly growing legal issues and the complications that come with it may be giving his field of opponents hope.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause of the legal stuff weighing over Trump\u2019s head, that;\u2019s why I don\u2019t think you\u2019re going to see anybody getting out,\u201d O\u2019Connell said. \u201cAnd that\u2019s how it\u2019s going to be difficult to make the case that one of them can consolidate behind him. That is the big problem.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Copyright 2023 Nexstar Media Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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