Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley spoke to President Biden on Monday, hours after the 81-year-old commander-in-chief indirectly rebuked the former South Carolina governor in his home state for not identifying slavery as the cause of the Civil War. counterattacked.
Haley spoke during a town hall moderated by Fox News hosts Bret Bayer and Martha McCallum in Des Moines, Iowa, in South Carolina, where a racially motivated mass shooting occurred in June 2015. He condemned holding a campaign event at Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston. In this incident, nine black churchgoers were murdered by white supremacist Dylann Roof.
“For Biden to show up there and give a political speech is offensive in itself,” Haley said.
The former U.N. ambassador then criticized Biden's past association with racists and his history of “racist comments.”
“He fought alongside racists in the '70s, made racist statements throughout his career, and lectured me and anyone in South Carolina about racism, slavery, or anything related to civil society.” We don't need people like what they did. It's war,” Haley fumed.
In May 2022, Biden nostalgically recalled America's “old days.” In the Senate, she was able to sit down and have lunch with the “real racists” in Washington, even though she disagreed with them.
In a speech at a manufacturing plant, the president cited former racists Sens. James Eastland (D-Mississippi) and Strom Thurmond as members of Congress with whom he “used to fight” before “eating lunch together.” He named the congressman (Republican). Located in Hamilton, Ohio.
Biden told the same anecdote a month later during his annual picnic with members of Congress on the White House lawn.
The president criticized eventual vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris earlier that month for praising Eastland and racist Sen. Herman Talmadge (D-Ga.) during a June 2019 debate. The mission was also pursued.
“I don't think you're a racist,” Harris told Biden. “But I also believe that, and it's personal, to hear you talk about the reputations of two United States senators who built their fame and careers on racism in this country. I was hurt.”
Biden later apologized, saying, “I regret giving people the impression that I was admiring them.”
Ahead of Monday's town hall, Haley's campaign noted that Biden opposed court-ordered busing in the 1970s. In 2007, his then-Sen. Barack Obama as “the first mainstream African American to be articulate, bright, clean, and good-looking.” In 2006, he said, “You can't go to a 7-Eleven or Dunkin Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent.” Examples of the president's past racist comments include his 2019 gaffe that said “poor children are just as smart and talented as white children.”
Biden on Monday claimed it was a “lie” that the Civil War was about states' rights.
“So, just to be clear for those who don't know, the cause of the Civil War was slavery,” he said. “That's non-negotiable.”
Haley also spoke out against Biden over the mysterious circumstances that led to Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin being admitted to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on New Year's Day without the White House's notice and transferring his duties to Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks. demanded that he be “dismissed”. He was vacationing in Puerto Rico when he became disabled.
CNN reported that the president first learned of Austin's hospitalization last Thursday.
“I think Biden should be fired,” Haley said. “I can't believe this situation is happening.”
“First of all, there's a problem with the fact that Biden doesn't talk to the secretary of defense every day anyway,” she said. “Secondly, wasn't there enough of a connection that they didn't even know he was in intensive care at that point? And then went and said, 'Oh, but his deputy “I knew what was going on,” and then she says she’s on vacation in Puerto Rico? There's a lot wrong with this. ”
The White House and Pentagon announced that Mr. Austin, 70, resumed his duties from Walter Reed on Friday.
