President Biden on Sunday mocked former President Donald Trump for appearing to confuse Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley with former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) during a campaign rally this weekend.
“I don't agree with Nikki Haley on everything, but I agree with her on this. She's not Nancy Pelosi,” Biden wrote on He attached an election ad condemning the mix-up and emphasized his concerns about his mental state.
The ad includes a quote from Haley, a former South Carolina governor and U.N. ambassador during the Trump administration, which echoes Trump's comments on Friday, when he conflated two prominent female politicians. It looked like there was.
The ad interspersed Haley's comments from Saturday's rally with moments from Trump's Friday rally and earlier rallies.
“Last night, Mr. Trump was at a rally. And he kept going on and on about why I couldn't have handled January 6th better. That's when I was in the office. They say he was confused,” Haley said in the ad.
“He got confused. He got confused and said he was going to run against Obama. He never ran against Obama. Putting our country at risk like this. Please don’t,” she said.
President Trump on Friday blamed then-Speaker Pelosi for the security failure at the Capitol on January 6, 2021, repeating his often unsubstantiated claims. He also falsely claimed that the evidence collected by the special committee on January 6th had been deleted – even though that was true. publicly available online.
On Friday, President Trump repeated those claims, but blamed Haley rather than Pelosi.
Trump currently faces four criminal charges, including two related to his efforts to stay in power after losing the 2020 presidential election. He is currently the front-runner for the 2024 Republican presidential election.
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