“America has never been a racist country,” Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley said in her final appeal to New Hampshire voters ahead of Tuesday's New Hampshire Republican primary. reiterated his belief.
Hailey defended controversial comments I made this earlier this week Thursday night during a town hall with CNN anchor Jake Tapper at the University of New England after a scheduled debate between Haley and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis was canceled.
Tapper pressed Haley on the comment, pointing out that slavery is institutionalized in the Constitution and the White House was built with slave labor, but Haley said the Founding Fathers were racist. He stood his ground, saying he did not believe the country was founded on principles.
The former South Carolina governor, who was born in the southern state to Indian parents, spoke about her experiences growing up as a “brown girl” in a “small country town” and experiencing “a lot of racism.” Ta.
But her parents “never told me we lived in a racist country, and I'm so glad we didn't,” she said.
“If you tell every brown and black child in the world that they live in a racist country or were born in a racist country, you're immediately telling them they don't have a chance. ” Hayley continued. “My parents always said you're going to face challenges and you're going to have racist people, but that doesn't determine what you can do in this country.”
Haley argued that it is “ruining the country” because “too many people have this national self-loathing.”
“We have to get back to loving America. As the brown girl who lived in that small country town grew to become the country's first female minority governor and is now running for President of the United States, I We are blessed,” she said.
When Tapper reiterated that the nation's founding and its institutions are tied to racism, Haley responded, “The intent was to do the right thing.”
“i don't think so [founding fathers’] We were meant to be a racist nation. The intent was that everyone is created equal,” she said.
Asked to respond to Haley's comments in CNN's High Hall on Tuesday, DeSantis said he believes the United States is currently “not a racist country,” but that “there are challenges to how we view race.” “There is,” he said.
A poll released this week showed former president and front-runner Donald Trump trailing Haley 52% to 38% in the Granite State, following his landslide victory in last week's Iowa caucuses. He maintains a double-digit lead.
DeSantis has a single-digit lead over them.
