Nikki Haley Gets Booed During CNN Town Hall, Doubles Down on Mocking Iowa Voters

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The establishment’s preferred candidate often comes across as insincere.

At a town hall event in New Hampshire Wednesday, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, a candidate for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, insulted Iowans by suggesting that New Hampshire primary voters would have to “correct” the results of the Iowa caucus, scheduled for Jan. 15.

Then, when pressed to explain her insulting comment during a CNN town hall in Iowa Thursday, Haley first received a chorus of boos from the audience and then tried to laugh it off while, in fact, doubling down on the comment.

The controversy originated in a rah-rah moment typical of political campaigns.

“You know Iowa starts it. You know that you correct it. … And then my sweet state of South Carolina brings it home. That’s what we do,” Haley said Wednesday in New Hampshire.

In fairness — and as one might expect — Haley’s “you correct it” moment brought cheers from the New Hampshire audience.

Iowans, of course, had a different reaction, which meant that Haley had some ’splainin’ to do.

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