Fact checking Nikki Haley’s CNN town hall in New Hampshire

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Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley participated in a CNN town hall Thursday in New Hampshire ahead of the state’s upcoming primary.

The GOP presidential contender — who came in third behind former President Donald Trump and Gov. Ron DeSantis during Monday’s caucus in Iowa — took questions from New Hampshire voters about a wide range of issues.

Here is a fact check of some of Haley’s claims during the town hall.

Response to attacks on US soldiers

Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley said Thursday that that it took Iran “shooting our men and women in Iraq and Syria … 130 times” for President Joe Biden to “do something” about it.

Fact’s First: Haley’s claim is false.

The first time the US took action against Iranian-backed forces on October 26 — when an F-15 fighter jet and a pair of F-16 fighters used precision-guided munitions against weapons and ammunition storage facilities linked to Iranian-backed militias in eastern Syria — US and coalition forces had come under attack 19 times in the wake of the Israel-Hamas war. Those strikes have been followed by several more, including on November 8, November 12, November 20, and December 25.

As of Thursday, there have been at least 142 attacks on US and coalition forces in Iraq and Syria since the attacks began on October 17.

From CNN’s Haley Britzky

Haley participates in a CNN Republican Presidential Town Hall moderated by CNN's Jake Tapper at New England College in Henniker, New Hampshire, on January 18.

Electric vehicle mandates

Haley once again characterized Biden’s electric vehicle policies as mandatory, saying the president’s goal is “everybody’s got to drive an electric car by 2033.”

Haley once again characterized Biden’s electric vehicle