Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley on Wednesday once again challenged former President Donald Trump to take to the stage to debate his chief rival, after the former president repeatedly refused to do so.
Haley recently claimed during a rally in South Carolina that Trump would score higher on mental competency tests than Haley, who has called for mental competency tests to be administered to people over 75. I pointed out that there are.
“Then he got angry and said he would get a copy.” [a mental competency test], and challenge me, he will defeat me. Maybe he will, maybe he won't. But I said, 'Okay, then let's get on the debate stage and let's get started,'” she continued. “Donald, bring it on and show us what you've got,” said Haley, a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
The topic of President Trump's mental health had come up moments earlier when Haley discussed an apparent mix-up with Rump, in which he said he was not allowed to vote in January when discussing the presidential election. , allegedly confused Trump's name with that of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.). 6 Capitol riot.
The comments prompted increased scrutiny of Trump's mental competency, with Haley suggesting the former president's mental fitness was “not at the same level” as it was when he won the White House in 2016.
“Even on that day when he was going on and on about January 6th, we were talking about what’s next. [how] He was momentarily troubled and confused, which goes back to why I have continued to push for mental capacity tests to be administered to people over the age of 75,'' Haley said Wednesday.
At 52, Haley is more than 20 years younger than Trump, who is 77.
Trump has not attended any Republican primary debates in recent months, often citing his comfortable lead in opinion polls as the reason for his absence.
So far, his absence does not appear to have a negative impact on his standing in the polls. Trump defeated his remaining challenger, Haley, by nearly 11 points in New Hampshire and won last week's Iowa caucuses by nearly 30 points.
Despite her early defeat, Haley insists she intends to remain in the race, and has her sights set on her home state of South Carolina, where a primary will be held at the end of February.
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