- Haley called not to ‘obsess over the past’
- He spoke in South Carolina while trailing Donald Trump by 20 points.
- He warned against demonizing rhetoric
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Nikki Haley criticized both Joe Biden and Donald Trump in her Saturday night speech after losing her home state to Trump, claiming to be “obsessed” with the final moments after Trump revised his 2020 election fraud claims.
He made the comment while trailing Trump by 20 points in early results, after Trump, in his own victory speech, talked about his 2020 “lead” over Biden fading as additional results came in in the states. in dispute.
“We won’t get out of our downward spiral if we continue to obsess about the past,” Haley told a crowd of supporters.
‘Does anyone seriously believe that Joe Biden or Donald Trump will unite our country to solve our problems? One of them calls his fellow Americans fascists. The other calls his fellow Americans vermin. They are not fighting for the future of our county. They are demanding that we fight among ourselves,” he said.
Nikki Haley asked her rivals to stop ‘obsessing over the past’
He was referring to Biden’s 2022 denunciation of what he called “extreme MAGA philosophy.”
In her speech Saturday night, Haley noted that she was getting about 40 percent of the vote, which she said was enough to continue. Shortly afterward her total dropped to 38 percent.
“It’s not just Trump, it’s the whole philosophy behind him… I’m going to say something, it’s like semi-fascism,” he said, in a comment that drew comparisons to Hillary Clinton’s infamous “basket of deplorables” language to describe supporters. of Trump.
Last year, Trump used the term “vermin” to describe immigrants who “poison the blood” of the United States, in language that critics linked to similar language from Adolf Hitler.
If Haley had wanted to call out someone for attacking fascists, she could also have pointed to Saturday afternoon, when Trump again used the term to describe Biden supporters. “He’s surrounded by very bad fascists,” Trump said at CPAC.
‘I would rather lose my freedom than surrender to this group. “Thugs and tyrants, fascist scoundrels and rogues,” Trump said, after attacking Biden and the “deranged prosecutors” he blamed for his criminal indictments.
Trump also repeated multiple allegations of voter fraud in 2020, when courts rejected his allies’ claims and he lost the popular vote by 7 million votes.
Donald Trump brought up his allegations of election fraud Saturday afternoon and evening, even as he accepted the results coming in in South Carolina.
President Biden compared MAGA to ‘semi-fascism’
Haley chased the ages of her two opponents and became obsessed with the past. Trump twice invoked his 2020 election fraud claims on Saturday
“And in 2020, they cheated like dogs and we all know it,” Trump said.
During his victory speech, Trump also pointed out the states he contested in 2020.
‘We are ahead in Pennsylvania. And suddenly nothing happened. It was boom. And then we will take out all of Georgia and then we will explode,” Trump said.
Haley’s comments about “obsessing” about the past dovetail with her general attacks on her rivals for their age, sometimes calling them both “80-year-olds.” Biden is 81 years old, Trump is 77 and Haley is 52.
