BERLIN, N.H. — GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley on Wednesday declined to say slavery was a cause of the Civil War, arguing instead that it came down to “the role of government.” At a New Hampshire town hall, a voter bluntly asked Haley, “What was the cause of the Civil War?” Haley, the former South […]
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley was asked Wednesday by a New Hampshire voter about the reason for the Civil War, and she didn’t mention slavery in her response — leading the voter to say he was “astonished” by her omission. Asked during a town hall in Berlin, New Hampshire, what she […]
At a packed community center in southwestern Iowa, Nikki Haley broke from her usual remarks this month to offer a warning to her top Republican presidential rivals, Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis, deploying a favorite line: “If they punch me, I punch back — and I punch back harder.” But in that Dec. 18 appearance […]
GILBERT, S.C. (AP) — Standing inside a rustic barn a short drive from the state capital, Henry McMaster shocked many South Carolina Republicans seven years ago by backing Donald Trump for president. Then the lieutenant governor, McMaster became the highest-ranking state official to endorse Trump in 2016. The event was in Lexington County, the adopted […]
AMES, Iowa — Tyler Raygor rapped on the door of a gray, one-story house in a neighborhood in northern Ames, Iowa, and waited until a man in a hoodie and jeans appeared before launching into his pitch. The man, Mike Morton, said he was leaning toward voting for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis or former President […]
MOUNT VERNON, Iowa — With her polling position stagnant in Iowa, Nikki Haley and her allies are choosing not to target independent or Democratic voters in the state, bypassing a potential opportunity to persuade them into changing their party registrations on caucus night. The group that is effectively running the ground operation on behalf of […]
By Gram Slattery CLEAR LAKE, Iowa (Reuters) – Republican presidential contender Nikki Haley has risen in opinion polls in recent months largely on the back of college-educated, affluent, suburban professionals, many of whom have tired of Donald Trump‘s caustic rhetoric and legal troubles. If the former South Carolina governor is to ascend any further and […]
ANAMOSA, Iowa (AP) — Nikki Haley stopped short Thursday of answering one Iowa voter’s question the way he’d hoped. Asked by 44-year-old Jacob Schunk to label Donald Trump a “grave danger to our country,” Haley ticked through criticisms of the former president ranging from foreign policy to government spending. And then the former United Nations […]
GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley on Wednesday issued a bold boast after the Colorado Supreme Court ruled to omit frontrunner Donald Trump from the state primary ballot. (Watch the video below.) “I am going to defeat Donald Trump on my own,” she said on Fox News. “I don’t need a judge to go take him […]
Republican presidential hopeful Nikki Haley launched a new ad Monday calling President Joe Biden “too old,” in one of the most direct attacks on Biden’s age so far in the 2024 campaign cycle. “I’ll just say it: Biden’s too old,” Haley says to the camera in the 30-second ad, titled “New Generation.” The 51-year-old former […]
The super PAC backing former President Donald Trump is preparing to target Nikki Haley in upcoming ads in New Hampshire, according to new TV ad-buying paperwork — the first time the group will go negative against Trump’s former UN ambassador, in a sign of her continuing surge in the early primary state. The group, Make […]
ALTOONA, Iowa — Nikki Haley went after Ron DeSantis directly at an Iowa town hall Sunday night, as the two battle for second in the GOP presidential contest’s early states. “While Ron is lying about me, I’m going to tell you the truth about him,” she told the crowd at the Fireside Grill in Altoona. […]