Nikki Haley’s response to President Obama’s State of the Union speech Tuesday night was widely seen as a repudiation of the generally anti-immigrant message being peddled by current GOP frontrunner Donald Trump.
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Trump, of course, did take it personally, blasting Haley on Twitter for accepting campaign donations from him in the past and calling her “weak” on immigration policy.
South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley this week called for more civility in the conduct of her party’s raucous Republican presidential nomination contest, but her plea so far has only served to inflame tensions among the party’s warring factions.
Haley, seen by many as a potential vice presidential pick for the GOP, acknowledged her comments were aimed partly at Trump. ” ‘This is just something that we just learned in SC that I’m passing along”. “I’m really angry because we’re being led by very stupid people that don’t know what they’re doing”.
In an interview with local reporters, she said the Republican presidential front-runner’s call for a temporary ban on Muslim immigrants compelled her to speak out.
One might have gotten that outlandish impression after listening to the President’s State of the Union Address and then the very unusual so-called Republican response by Haley. “That’s how you win and that’s how you have to govern when you’re a governor, and I thought she did a great job”, Bush said.
“This is something where both parties need to realize there are no saints here but there are opportunities where we can say, “Let’s right the ship and start moving forward”, she added.
Though her comments in December were not remarked upon, this time around, some of the conservatives did take shots at the Governor. And she certainly has no trouble asking me for campaign contributions. She got back to them a couple of days later and accepted.
And while Utah Republican chair James Evans agreed with Haley on toning down the rhetoric, he told ABC News that the issue is broader than one candidate. Obamacare, we’re going to repeal it and replace it. We have no borders. Ted Cruz 33 percent to 22 percent, according to the average from Real Clear Politics, though no polls have been released in SC in almost a month.
Ann Coulter was less than thrilled with Nikki Haley’s Donald Trump bashing last night and unleashed a tweetstorm in response. Their plans for a new round of legislative confrontation loom as a flash point during this week’s congressional GOP retreat in Baltimore.
“She did more talking about her party’s positive agenda than any single of them has done all year”, she said. Freshman Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, gave the address a year ago and Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., the No. 4 House GOP leader, did it in 2014.
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Yeah, she’s super-conservative, but she doesn’t want the Republican party to turn into a white nationalist, to turn into a kind of fascist party. “And it is quite telling to note where in the drive-by media and in the conservative media today she’s being hailed”.
