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. “She liked me better when I was a giver of contributions than she does when I’m not”, Trump said, adding that he is leading in Haley’s state of SC. Haley stopped just short of calling out Donald Trump by name in her Tuesday remarks.
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“During anxious times, it can be tempting to follow the silent call of the angriest voices”.
DONALD TRUMP: By the way, I have a massive lead in SC.
By picking Haley, the daughter of Indian immigrants, GOP leaders – who reportedly cleared the speech before she addressed the nation – were effectively announcing they had had it with Trump’s toxic brand of ethno-nationalism.
Haley’s SOTU response however, was very different from the speeches she usually delivers in South Carolina, Durrani said.
John Thune, a member of the GOP Senate leadership, stood by the SC governor. “By no means am I trying to endorse everything that she’s doing, but I do think that a lot of this, including parts of the speech last night, were admirable”.
“People are going to say, I want someone who understands the pain I feel and the anxiety I have and the fear I have that the country is going to lose a piece of its greatness”, Ryan said. She has powerful stories of being an immigrant.
“Perhaps, if I weren’t running she’d be in my office asking for money”.
As for Obama, he delivered a riff on Trump’s campaign slogan – “Make America Great Again”.
At CODA-staff says one of the biggest changes that could turn things around-is the addition of specified prosecutors and judges to handle the massive case loads, reducing pressure on normal solicitors and law enforcement. these are all needed changes they say. There’s other people in the media. He did, however, diss President Obama, tweeting, “The State Of The Union speech was one of the most boring, rambling and non-substantive I have heard in a long time. We need to accept that we’ve played a role in how and why our government is broken”, she added. What I will tell you is, the Syrian refugees, I said when the Federal Bureau of Investigation director called and told me that he had no way of knowing what their past was, we said, well, we don’t want them.
The 43-year-old, who is the first woman and first minority governor in her state’s history, told the CNN: “I truly haven’t thought about it near as much as you guys have”. Even now, he seems more angry at Trump and Rubio (his protege) than at Obama. Speaking to the Today Show on Wednesday morning, Haley confirmed that she would be open to the idea of running for Vice President.
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Associated Press writer Bill Barrow contributed from Charleston, South Carolina.
