Poll: DeSantis, Haley tie for second in Iowa as their feud over foreign policy grows
Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley are trading jabs on the campaign trail and on TV with super PAC-funded attack ads. Their feud comes as a new poll shows the candidates tied for second in Iowa with less than three months until caucus night.
Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley are trading jabs on the campaign trail and on TV with super PAC-funded attack ads. Their feud comes as a new poll shows the candidates tied for second in Iowa with less than three months until caucus night.
Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley are trading jabs on the campaign trail and on TV with super PAC-funded attack ads. Their feud comes as a new poll shows the candidates tied for second in Iowa with less than three months until caucus night.
Republican presidential hopefuls Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley are trading jabs on the campaign trail and on TV with super PAC-funded attack ads. Their feud comes as a new poll shows the candidates tied for second in Iowa with less than three months until caucus night.
The shows Haley and DeSantis tied at 16%. Both candidates trail behind Donald Trump, who earned 43% of likely caucusgoers' support.
Haley's climbed 10% since the same poll in August put her at 6%. Support for DeSantis, who polled at 19% in August, has fallen by 3%.
The fight for second comes as the two candidates have become increasingly critical of each other on the campaign trail in Iowa.
Haley slammed DeSantis during a stop in Pella earlier this month for comments her campaign has called misleading.
"God bless Ron DeSantis, because he continues to try and bring up this refugee situation. He has said that I want to take Gazan refugees. I have never said that," Haley said. "He can keep doing it, but that's what happens when a campaign starts to spiral out."
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That same day, DeSantis punched back in Dubuque.
"She criticized my statement saying we're not gonna import Palestinian Arabs from the Gaza Strip," DeSantis said. "I think she stepped in it. I think that they've gotten blowback from that. And I think they're trying to kind of cover their tracks and act like we're doing anything other than just quoting her words."
vlog political analyst Dennis Goldford said Haley and DeSantis are fighting to be seen as the chief alternative to current frontrunner Donald Trump.
"It's a race for second place," Goldford said. "You can tell who somebody thinks his main opponent is by seeing who he advertises or who his supporters work against. We're seeing that with DeSantis and Haley."
