Funny Exchange Between Haley and Audience Member Doesn't Have Good End for Her (And Polls Look Bad Too)

The New Hampshire primary is finally here and we'll know shortly if things end up as expected -- with former President Donald Trump winning.

The latest polling on that has former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley behind by 19 points. That's still a pretty huge amount to try to make up.

Daily Wave #6 of 7 with net change in parentheses

Suffolk University/Boston Globe/NBC-10 poll of 500 likely NH GOP Primary voters.
Two-day rolling average of field (1/20-1/21)
Topline Ballot Test "First Choice":
Trump 57 (+2)
Haley 38 (+2)
Someone else 2 (+2)
Undecided 2…
— David Paleologos (@davidpaleologos) January 22, 2024

Trump has gained more in raw numbers since Iowa than Haley has. That makes sense, since voters who were supportive of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis are more likely to back Trump than Haley, according to polling. NBC's poll guy, Steve Kornacki also spoke about the momentum that polling gave Trump, plus he had DeSantis endorsing him and that was now creating a sense of inevitability about the race. Kornacki did leave Haley some small hope if she was able to muster up more independents/flip more Republicans than what the polls are predicting.

But realistically, It's not looking good for Haley right now, so she's going to have to consider if she's going to pack it in after New Hampshire or potentially be embarrassed in her home state, if she doesn't do any better than predicted on Tuesday.

However, Haley was out in New Hampshire still campaigning and she got a surprise question from an audience member that I don't think she could have anticipated. The audience member, a man, asked Haley if she would marry him. But it didn't ultimately end well for her.

Someone at Nikki Haley’s event in New Hampshire just asked her if she would marry him— watch how angry and defeated she sounds after finding out it was a Trump supporter trolling her🤣

DUDE: "Nikki! Will you marry me?"

HALEY: "Are you gonna vote for me?"

DUDE: "I'm voting for… pic.twitter.com/HZFUBVLHa1
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) January 22, 2024

Haley asked, "Are you gonna vote for me?"

The guy said, "I'm voting for Trump."

She replied, "Oh, get out of here." And you could hear someone else saying, "Get him out of here."

I'm just going to guess that that's not the best way to convince people to vote for you if you just say, "Get out" rather than say why someone should vote for you as opposed to your opponent. They tend not to vote for you when you do things like that. Also may not be the best thing to do to say respond "Are you going to vote for me?" to that question. Never ask a question you don't know the answer to -- you may not like the answer. Plus, that's an odd response to his asking about marriage, as though if he responded yes, he would vote for her, was she going to have some positive response to his query about marriage. She didn't say, "Sorry, but I'm already married."

But it sounds at this point a little bit of a foreshadowing about how the race may end up -- people voting for Trump.

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