Nikki Haley got a late Christmas present on Tuesday morning: the state of Iowa free of her main rivals for the 2024 Republican nomination just six days before the party’s first nominating contest. With one stuck in court and another tending to his day job back home, Haley made her pitch to about 100 voters who braved snow-blanketed roads to attend a rally at Mickey’s Irish Pub in Waukee, a suburb of the state capital Des Moines. Haley’s comments regarding the "hard truth" about the mounting legal troubles facing former President Donald Trump, who was some 1,000 miles away in Washington for a court hearing, prompted voter Valerie Bantz to nod in agreement.
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