In remarks made on a radio interview Thursday, Republican presidential candidate former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley blamed a “Democrat plant” despatched by the Biden marketing campaign for the ’cause of the Civil War’ question she botched at a city corridor Wednesday night time in Berlin, New Hampshire. Haley additionally gave a do-over reply that blamed slavery for the Struggle Between the States. Later at one other city corridor, Haley once more blamed the slavery.
Haley appeared on the Pulse of NH present Good Morning New Hampshire with Jack Heath Thursday morning. The complete audio can be heard at this link.
Audio excerpt posted by the DeSantis marketing campaign:
CLEANUP ON AISLE 5
LISTEN: Haley embarrassingly makes an attempt to stroll again her Civil Struggle flub, explains that she couldn’t reply the straightforward query as a result of the voter was a “Democrat plant.”
Nikki Haley would not have what it takes to win. pic.twitter.com/rKnqu96LjB
— DeSantis Struggle Room 🐊 (@DeSantisWarRoom) December 28, 2023
Later Haley appeared at a city corridor at Kennett Excessive Faculty in North Conway the place she once more addressed the ’reason for the Civil Struggle’ query:
Nikki Haley once more addresses her reply on the reason for the Civil Struggle: pic.twitter.com/1ABNx6CkOh
— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) December 28, 2023
Final night time I used to be requested concerning the Civil Struggle. And what I consider the Civil Struggle, what was the reason for the Civil Struggle?”
After all, the Civil Struggle was about slavery. We all know that. That’s unquestioned. All the time the case. We all know the Civil Struggle was about slavery. nevertheless it was additionally greater than that. It was concerning the freedoms of each particular person. It was concerning the position of presidency.
For eighty years, America had the choice and the ethical query of whether or not slavery was a great factor? And whether or not authorities, economically, culturally, some other causes, had a job to play in that.
By the grace of God, we did the suitable factor and slavery isn’t any extra. However the classes of what the larger situation with the Civil Struggle are, is that permit’s not neglect what got here out of that, which is: Authorities’s position, particular person liberties, freedom for each single individual, freedom of speech, freedom of faith, freedom to do and be something you wish to be with out anybody or authorities getting in your means. That needs to be the objective of what we all the time attempt to remove from that, proper?
As a result of we by no means wish to return again to that place however we all the time wish to bear in mind the lesson of what it means to be a free particular person and that everybody deserves to be a free particular person. So we stand by that. I say that as a Southerner. I say that as a Southern governor who eliminated the Accomplice flag off the statehouse grounds. And I say it as a proud American of how far we have now come.
Transribed by TGP.
The nameless questioner on the Berlin city corridor Wednesday advised reporters he requested Haley about the reason for the Civil Struggle due to this 2010 Q & A with the Palmetto Patriots when she was working for governor that didn’t point out slavery:
Throughout a 2010 interview with neo-Confederates, Nikki Haley prevented saying the the Civil Struggle was fought over slavery and as a substitute implied the South was “preventing for custom” whereas the Union was “preventing for change.” pic.twitter.com/128NVahRCN
— PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 (@patriottakes) February 15, 2023
New Hampshire Journal excerpt:
The unidentified man later advised reporters he requested the query as a result of he heard her reply it in an identical means when she ran for South Carolina governor in 2010. He stated he wished to know if her views had since modified.
In 2015, whereas governor of the Palmetto State, Haley was extensively praised for efficiently eradicating the Accomplice battle flag from atop the South Carolina state home and to a Accomplice monument, resolving a problem that had plagued her state’s politics for years.
Haley’s 2010 reply is an obvious reference to an interview she held with a southern heritage activist group, the since-defunct Palmetto Patriots. A video of the interview was launched by CNN final February.
Within the interview, Haley stated the Civil Struggle was about two sides butting heads as a result of one aspect stood for “custom” whereas the opposite supported “change.”
Pressed by the heritage group on what that meant, Haley answered, “on particular person rights and liberty of individuals.”
Thursday morning, Haley made it clear she believed the Civil Struggle query got here straight from Democrats.
“It was positively a Democrat plant,” Haley advised Heath. “That’s why I stated, ‘What does it imply to you?’ And in the event you discover, he didn’t reply something. The identical purpose he didn’t inform the reporters what his title was. The identical purpose he went and confirmed the man that he was with the tweet that went up after he did it.