Haley booed at CNN town hall over joke New Hampshire voters 'correct' Iowa caucus

Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley was booed Thursday night at a CNN town hall in Iowa over her a previous comment about the New Hampshire presidential primary, second in balloting after the Iowa Caucus. 

During the live TV event, Haley, running second or third in most polls to front-runnner Donald Trump, CNN host Erin Burnett said to Haley, "You talked about the importance of New Hampshire and Iowa. We're here in Iowa. But you said about the primary process that while Iowa goes first, New Hampshire 'corrects it.'"

“Oh, my God," responded Haley, a former South Carolina governor and United Nations ambassador, 

The comment resulted in a few boos from the town hall audience. 

Florida GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis, who is also either No. 2 or No. 3 behind Trump, referred to the remark as "disrespectful."

"I think it was incredibly disrespectful to Iowans to say somehow their votes need to be 'corrected,'" DeSantis said, according to Fox News Digital. "I think she's trying to provide an excuse for her not doing well. You know, her allies and her have spent a huge amount of money here."

Haley defended the joke at the town hall, saying that states "banter against each other."

"You've gotta have some fun too," she said. "So we're at this town hall. We had 700 people in New Hampshire. ... Yes I said that. But keep in mind, I'm from an early state.

"South Carolina always knew that Iowa's gonna be the first caucus. New Hampshire's gonna be the first in the nation, and South Carolina wanted to be the first in the south. It was a pact. It's still a pact-the three states at least on the Republican side had, that we were gonna keep that. But we banter against each other on different things."