Nikki Haley Has Stalled

Charleston Post & Courier: “Nationally, her polling average has barely budged, going from 3.8 percent support when she kicked off her candidacy to 3.4 percent today. In the two leadoff states of Iowa and New Hampshire, she’s stuck in the low single-digits, polling in fifth and seventh place, respectively.”

“She’s watched fellow South Carolinian Tim Scott, who entered the race three months behind her, rise to third place in Iowa. … And in her home state of South Carolina, she’s in double-digits but still trailing Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis for support. Haley brushes off the numbers, saying that the race will start to shift after Labor Day and that this moment is an all-too-familiar refrain in her own political story.”

Said GOP operative Buzz Jacobs: “She’s not running a conservative enough campaign to win Iowa, and not running a maverick enough campaign to win New Hampshire.”