“I don’t play for second I’ve never played for second. For all the warm words, she still runs the risk of being unable to escape the long shadows of Trump and DeSantis.īut ask her about the charge, too often leveled at female candidates, that she’s really running to be vice president, and an emphatic reply comes back. No-one is speaking of Haley as a winner yet. “But I will continue to go and hear the others as they come through too.”
“I was in tears about five different times…I think I maybe have found my candidate here,” Beth tells The Hill. In Waterloo, retired educator Beth McCrindle and her attorney husband Kevin McCrindle also seem close to being won over. “In Iowa we like to look somebody in the eye and see what kind of character they have. “Very articulate, well spoken, I think she’s got a good head on her shoulders,” he says. So far, there is at least some evidence that Haley’s bid to turn Iowa in her favor, one potential caucus-goer at time, can’t be wholly ruled out.Īfter the event in Ankeny, Des Moines resident James Hart tells The Hill that he is impressed: “She is certainly young enough to fight another day if she doesn’t make it - and she may make it.” “But it is more likely that she carves a niche for herself in a post-Trump era…She will run well enough that by the time this is over, her position will be much enhanced in the national Republican Party. “Sure, it’s possible that she does a Jimmy Carter, wins Iowa and goes the distance,” Yepsen adds. “The odds are against her - but lightning is going to strike somebody,” said David Yepsen, who covered numerous caucuses during a 34-year stretch writing about politics for the Des Moines Register. On the other hand, there are plenty of candidates of both parties who have virtually set up home in Iowa before the caucuses - and gone nowhere. Rick Santorum (Pa.) pulled off a broadly similar feat. Mike Huckabee scored a startling victory in 2008 and, four years later, former Sen. On the Republican side, former Arkansas Gov. Barack Obama won in Iowa on a night when Hillary Clinton was relegated to third place, changing that year’s Democratic contest at a stroke. The caucuses first became significant a generation ago when Jimmy Carter won the 1976 Democratic contest, a victory that ultimately catapulted him toward the nomination. Iowa has produced plenty of upsets over the years, in both major parties. Will Haley’s approach in Iowa benefit her? The question of whether Haley can carve out her own territory is becoming more acute. We’ve been waiting,” a smiling Haley replied.īut the battlefield is getting more crowded now. They’re tired of the noise.”Īs for DeSantis’s likely entrance into the race?
In her interview with The Hill, asked why she believes voters want a “new generation” of leadership, as she often claims, she replies that Americans are “tired of the drama. “I will continue to say it was a terrible day. Haley began her answer with language offering a break with Trump: It’s easy to come in and do a rally and leave.”īut she also puts some clear water between herself and the former president.Īt one campaign stop last week, in Ankeny, a woman in the audience asked Haley about the length of time some defendants are having to wait before their trials on alleged offenses related to Jan. “The shaking hands, the really getting to know people and them getting to know you - I just think that’s more meaningful. “Even now, nothing takes the place of that eye-to-eye contact,” she says. She insisted that, even in an age where candidates have innumerable options for connecting with voters, from cable news to Twitter and TikTok, putting in the miles from town to town can still break through. We will stay until the last person is done.” And so we will do town hall after town hall after town hall. This is about getting people to trust you, and to earn their support. “This is about touching as many hands as you can. “We said we weren’t going to do any shortcuts,” Haley told The Hill in an exclusive interview before another campaign stop, in Dubuque. At least as Team Haley sees it, there is plenty of time for her skill at retail politics to move the needle even more. The poll was also taken more than a month ago.
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