The Democratic National Committee (DNC) is launching a billboard campaign against Republican Nikki Haley in Iowa, putting up visuals to attack her on reproductive rights as she campaigns in the state.
The DNC will put four billboards up in Davenport, Iowa, to equate Haley with “extreme abortion bans,” the committee first told The Hill. Haley is set to campaign and hold a town hall in Davenport Wednesday.
“It’s bold of Nikki Haley to double down on her support for a national abortion ban when the overwhelming majority of women across America disagree with her extreme position. Haley has always been an anti-abortion extremist — she signed an abortion ban with no exceptions for rape or incest as governor, and she said she would sign any nationwide abortion ban that landed on her desk as president,” Sarafina Chitika, DNC national press secretary, said in a statement.
The billboards denounces Haley as a candidate who “would sign any nationwide ban as president,” after she said during the November GOP primary debate that she would sign such a bill if it could pass Congress. The billboards also call her out for signing “an extreme ban without exceptions for rape or incest” after she signed a 20-week abortion bill as South Carolina governor in 2016 that didn’t allow rape or incest exceptions.
“Haley is showing the women of America who she is — and we must believe her,” Chitika said.
Haley has worked to improve her standing in Iowa, and her campaign last month announced a $10 million ad buy in Iowa, as well as in New Hampshire.
Meanwhile, with the Iowa Republican caucus less than six weeks away, former President Trump’s lead in the state is growing, with an NBC News/Des Moines Register/Mediacom poll putting him at 51 percent and Haley trailing at 16 percent. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is polling at 19 percent.
Nationally, a recent Wall Street Journal poll showed Haley beating President Biden by 17 points, 51 percent to 34 percent.
