Ron DeSantis defied polls, pundits, and record negative spending alike last night by beating expectations in Iowa and securing second place.
Meanwhile, Nikki Haley’s poll-driven campaign flopped in Iowa with a gut-wrenching third place. This embarrassing defeat is compounded by sky-high expectations Haley herself, her team, surrogates, and benefactors celebrated, as well as the fact that she spent the most of any candidate in Iowa, including over $24 million just to falsely attack DeSantis.
The DeSantis campaign released a new video today hammering Haley for failing to live up to her own hype in Iowa.
Nikki Haley spent the most money — by far — in Iowa.
She repeatedly promised a “strong second” place.
She had the media on her side, big donors, and the establishment.
She failed to live up to expectations and landed in 3rd. pic.twitter.com/PcBqXSi80Y
— DeSantis War Room 🐊 (@DeSantisWarRoom) January 16, 2024
I think in Haley’s mind she did come in at a close second place – if she disregards Trump’s first place as if he doesn’t even matter. But that’s the mindset of a globalist establishment RINO. Trump is irrelevant to them, nothing but an insurrectionist that must be stopped by any means. Desperate people do desperate things. If any Democrats caucused last night, it was to vote for their globalist operative Nikki Haley.