‘Showed her weakness’: Nikki Haley needs to ‘retool her talking points’ if she wants to win

Former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley showed “weakness” this week, and she needs to “retool her talking points” to understand she is now facing all 50 states, says University of California Professor of Political Science Louis Desipio. According to a Fox Business poll of Iowa GOP caucus-goers, Mr Trump is polling at 52 per cent, Ron DeSantis at 18 per cent, Nikki Haley at 16 per cent, Vivek Ramaswamy is at seven per cent and Chris Christie is at three per cent. “I think … we’ll see a little starburst; I think she’ll do better than expected in Iowa – that doesn’t mean she’ll win by any means – and she could come very close or even win in New Hampshire,” Mr Desipio told Sky News Australia. “Even if she does well or better than expected, at least initially, my suspicion is that former president Trump has more support in the Republican electorate and certainly a better campaign infrastructure in all of those states that come after the first couple. “I think she showed her weakness this week in that she reacted to a question as she would have as running for governor of South Carolina … instead of as a candidate for president. “She needs to retool her talking points to understand that the electorate she’s facing now is all 50 states and not just a southern state.”