Because over the years she’s asked me for a hell of a lot of money in campaign contributions. Trump fired back Wednesday, calling her “weak on illegal immigration”.
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Two fresh faces in the Republican Party – House Speaker Paul Ryan and South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley – are offering messages of diversity and openness to immigrants that could answer the GOP establishment’s increasingly desperate search for an antidote to the loud pronouncements of presidential front-runner Donald Trump.
“During anxious times, it can be tempting to follow the siren call of the angriest voices”, she said in her prepared remarks.
She acknowledged Wednesday that her comments were partly aimed at Trump, telling NBC’s “Today Show”: “Mr. Trump has definitely contributed to what I think is just irresponsible talk”. But I guess now that I’m running (for President), she doesn’t like me quite as much.
His trip to Nebraska, a Republican “red state”, is meant to help promote the big-picture ideas he laid out in his final State of the Union speech on Tuesday, where he said he regretted American politics had become more rancorous.
He will be joined on stage Thursday by conservative Senator Ted Cruz, his nearest competitor; charismatic Senator Marco Rubio; retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson; New Jersey Governor Chris Christie; Florida’s ex-governor Jeb Bush; and Ohio Governor John Kasich.
Like Obama, Haley has spoken publicly about incidents of racial discrimination and the alienation she endured in her youth. “She isn’t a role model for conservatism or conservative women. She called out what we haven’t been doing”, he said.
“It is what makes us the greatest, freest country in the world. That is just not true”, she said. “And that’s something that doesn’t play very well with me”, the NY based real estate tycoon said. You can’t believe what you heard last night because the fact is our economy is bad. But he urged the audience to reject the vision of America that he says Republicans want them to see.
Obama wants more states to take advantage of the Affordable Care Act and the federal government’s offer to pay the cost of expanding Medicaid to provide health insurance to more people who now lack coverage. “Let’s see what happens”, Trump said.
The South Carolina governor said she considers Trump a friend but noted that her other friends “don’t throw stones” over political disagreements, she told ABC News’ Jonathan Karl. He was a supporter. What exactly do you mean by that? That’s the thing is, you shouldn’t take these things personally.
“Yes partially to Donald Trump, but partially to a lot of other people as reminding them we get more done when we listen and find out where someone else is coming from and put ourselves in their shoes to try and figure out where we can find common ground”, Haley said.
“I think that she did a really good job”.
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“I’m concerned that if anybody intimates that we have to allow for… unlimited immigration into America”, he also told reporters, according to The Hill, “we have to say no to some”.
