GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley has tied Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in the FiveThirtyEight national GOP primary polling average for the first time.
FiveThirtyEight senior editor and senior elections analyst Nathaniel Rakich incorrectly announced on Jan. 2 that the former South Carolina governor and U.S. ambassador to the United Nations has pulled ahead of Mr. DeSantis even though the two are tied at 11.3 percent.
“With all necessary caveats about confidence intervals and there being multiple ways to calculate an average: Nikki Haley has now pulled ahead of Ron DeSantis for 2nd place in 538’s national GOP primary polling average,” posted Mr. Rakich on X, formerly Twitter, on Jan. 3….
