Nikki Haley pressed her assault on Donald Trump’s age and psychological health over the weekend as she seeks an upset win within the New Hampshire Republican major.
“He’s just not at the same level he was in 2016,” the previous South Carolina governor mentioned Sunday of Trump on CBS’s Face the Nation. “I think we’re seeing some of that decline.”
Haley, 52, has principally steered away from sturdy assaults on the 77-year-old former president, whom she served as United Nations ambassador. However she seized on Trump’s psychological acuity after he repeatedly appeared to confuse her with former Home Speaker Nancy Pelosi at a rally on Friday evening.
Her shift in tone comes because the essential vote looms Tuesday, with a brand new CNN ballot displaying Trump holds 50% of assist amongst probably Republican major voters in New Hampshire versus 39% for Haley.
On CBS, Haley ticked off “multiple” examples of Trump presumably being “confused.”
“He claimed that Joe Biden was going to get us into World War II. I’m assuming he meant World War III,” she mentioned. “He said that he ran against President Obama. He never ran against President Obama. He says that I’m the one that kept security from the Capitol on January 6th, I was nowhere near the Capitol on January 6th.”
“Don’t be surprised if you have someone that’s 80 in office, their mental stability is going to continue to decline,” Haley mentioned.
“It should be enough to send us a warning sign,” she mentioned. “Joe Biden, he’s very different than he was two years ago.”
Biden, 81, added his voice to the tumult over Trump’s repeated assertions Haley was accountable for safety on Jan. 6.
“I don’t agree with Nikki Haley on everything, but we agree on this much: She is not Nancy Pelosi,” Biden mentioned on X, previously Twitter.
I don’t agree with Nikki Haley on every part, however we agree on this a lot: She will not be Nancy Pelosi. pic.twitter.com/hjNgmcrwAP
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) January 21, 2024
New Hampshire thus far presents the strongest alternative for Haley to upset Trump, owing to the state’s extra average citizens and the flexibility of undeclared voters to take part within the GOP major.
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However even when she defies the polls and wins in New Hampshire, Haley faces a steep climb towards the GOP nomination. Different polls present Trump dominating across the nation, together with in her residence state of South Carolina. That major is on Feb. 24.
