Good evening everyone and welcome to Iowa home of the first Republican presidential

camp contest in the 2024 race for the White House.

We are live here at Grand View University in beautiful Des Moines for CNN's Town Hall

with former South Carolina governor and former US ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki

Haley.

I'm Jay Tapper.

Ambassador Haley has been a trailblazer throughout her career in public service and now she is

hoping to make history again and she challenges her former boss and current GOP frontrunner

Donald Trump among many others to for the chance to take on President Joe Biden.

Now if elected Ambassador Haley would become the very first woman in the very first Asian

American to hold the nation's highest office.

This evening's event is about the voters and the issues that will help determine who

wins the Republican nomination for president.

Tonight the voters will have the opportunity to question Ambassador Haley directly.

I'll have a few questions of my own.

This Town Hall is part of the Republican primary process and so by design in the audience

tonight are voters who say that they plan to participate in the Iowa Republican caucuses,

both Republicans and also independents who plan to register as Republicans.

The audience comes from all over the state of Iowa and is representative of Iowa Republicans.

To find tonight's question as we reached out to Republican affiliated groups as well

as business groups.

So farm associations and parent groups and young professional organizations and religious

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