Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley on Thursday sought to make clear her failure to say slavery when prompted concerning the Civil War at a city corridor in New Hampshire.
The remarks by Ms. Haley, who trails front-runner Donald Trump by double digits however has seen an increase within the polls in early major states, got here three weeks earlier than New Hampshire major voters head to the poll field Jan. 23.
“Of course, the Civil War was about slavery. We know that. That’s the easy part of it,” she stated on the radio program “The Pulse of NH.” “What I was saying was what does it mean to us today? What it means to us today is about freedom. That’s what that was all about. It was about individual freedom, it was about economic freedom, it was about individual rights. Our goal is to make sure we never go back to the stain of slavery.”
Ms. Haley, prompted Wednesday at a city corridor by an viewers member about the reason for the Civil War, supplied a unique clarification however that additionally centered on “freedoms.”
“Well, don’t come with an easy question or anything,” she responded. “I mean, I think the cause of the Civil War was basically how government was going to run the freedoms and what people could and couldn’t do.”
The former South Carolina governor then requested the attendee to reply his personal query, to which the person responded that he was not the one searching for the White House.
“I think it always comes down to the role of government and what the rights of the people are. And I will always stand by the fact that I think government was intended to secure the rights and freedoms of the people,” she stated. “Government doesn’t need to tell you how to live your life. They need to make sure that you have freedom. We need to have capitalism. We need to have economic freedom. We need to make sure that we do all things so that individuals have the liberties so that they can have freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom to do or be anything they want to be without government getting in the way.”
The questioner stated it was “astonishing” Ms. Haley’s reply omitted slavery.
“What do you want me to say about slavery?” she responded earlier than shifting on to a different query.
