'Haley herself appears to understand that she must make an impressive stand in Iowa'

Guests wait to greet Republican presidential candidate former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley as she wraps up a campaign stop at the Nevada Fairgrounds

Republicans will be the first to select their party's nominee for the 2024 presidential race when they go to caucus on January 15, 2024

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By Harold Maass, The Week US

published 19 December 2023

'Haley's extremely narrow road to victory calls for top-tier finishes in the first two states'

Douglas E. Schoen in The Hill

Iowa could be Nikki Haley's "last stand," says Douglas E. Schoen in The Hill. The former South Carolina governor and Trump administration United Nations ambassador predicted last week that she and former President Donald Trump would be the only remaining candidates in the Republican presidential field after January's Iowa caucuses. But if she fails to deliver a strong showing "she, not Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.), may be the candidate who doesn't make it out of Iowa."

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Harold Maass is a contributing editor at The Week. He has been writing for The Week since the 2001 debut of the U.S. print edition and served as editor of TheWeek.com when it launched in 2008. Harold started his career as a newspaper reporter in South Florida and Haiti. He has previously worked for a variety of news outlets, including The Miami Herald, ABC News and Fox News, and for several years wrote a daily roundup of financial news for The Week and Yahoo Finance.