GOP presidential contender Nikki Haley flubbed a solution in regards to the Civil Conflict and is trying to break the dangerous information cycle. However voters counsel the gaffe hasn’t swayed their vote.
At a marketing campaign cease in New Hampshire Wednesday, Haley was requested by an attendee, “What was the reason for the US Civil Conflict?”
Haley mentioned the Civil Conflict was about authorities management, “freedoms and what folks may and couldn’t do.”
Haley drew sharp criticism for leaving slavery out of her reply and sought to wash up her response Thursday, saying she believes slavery sparked the struggle, however the “greater situation” was figuring out the function of presidency in folks’s lives.
NIKKI HALEY CLARIFIES CIVIL WAR ‘WAS ABOUT SLAVERY,’ AND INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM WAS ‘THE LESSON’
Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley, a former U.N. ambassador, speaks at a city corridor marketing campaign occasion Dec. 12, 2023, in Manchester, N.H. (AP Picture/Robert F. Bukaty)
Media pundits, her fellow GOP contenders and Democratic foes all piled on Haley for the misstep, however reviews reveal voters have been much less bothered.
“Everyone is aware of [the Civil War] was about slavery, and what else are you able to say about it?,” Alison Bolt, a self-described reasonable Republican from Littleton, New Hampshire, informed Politico. “Frankly, I’m sick to loss of life of listening to about these points. I’m sick to loss of life of listening to about, you recognize, racist sorts of issues and transgender issues. I need to get again to issues which are going to assist or destroy this nation.”
NIKKI HALEY HIT FROM ALL SIDES AFTER OMITTING ‘SLAVERY’ FROM CIVIL WAR RESPONSE
Nikki Haley speaks at a city corridor marketing campaign occasion after receiving an endorsement from New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu, seated within the entrance row at left, Dec. 12, 2023, in Manchester, N.H. (AP Picture/Robert F. Bukaty)
Robin Smith, one other Republican voter, informed the outlet she believed the query was from an opposition plant.
“That was a pile of bulls—. OK, there was anyone planted in that viewers, in my view,” she mentioned. “It needed to be anyone that wished to attempt to make her look dangerous.”
The Wall Avenue Journal spoke to voters in Iowa, which can maintain its major caucus subsequent month. A number of undecided Iowans who attended a Gov. Ron DeSantis occasion Thursday night mentioned they “both hadn’t heard about Haley’s feedback in regards to the Civil Conflict or weren’t bothered by them.”
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Nikki Haley, a 2024 presidential candidate, provides remarks at Mothers for Liberty’s Joyful Warriors Nationwide Summit in Philadelphia June 30, 2023. (Fox Information Picture/Joshua Comins)
“In case your residing is to speak all day, daily, one thing goofy is sure to come back out,” Iowa Republican Frank Wilson, a retired pc engineer and undecided voter from Cedar Rapids, informed the outlet.
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Republican Gov. Chris Sununu of the Granite State mentioned Haley’s cleanup was “spot on.”
“Spot on. That is it. The Civil Conflict is about slavery,” he informed reporters. “She acknowledged it. Shifting on.”
Fox Information Digital’s Jessica Chasmar contributed to this report.
