Nikki Haley was pressed on Fox News Wednesday to elucidate her current failure to say slavery when requested to state the reason for the Civil War.
“I want to visit this because it’s going to continue to come up. And the reason that it has, is maybe you haven’t put it to bed yet,” host Harris Faulkner mentioned to the Republican presidential hopeful.
The Fox News host pointed to criticism from Black conservatives, and requested Haley, “What have you learned?”
“What I should have said immediately was that the Civil War was about slavery. But I just assumed that that was a given,” Haley claimed.
She introduced up the truth that, when she was governor of South Carolina, she licensed the elimination of the Confederate flag from statehouse grounds in 2015 after a racist mass capturing that killed 9 Black churchgoers in Charleston. (She had been reluctant to handle the problem for years prior, nonetheless, and had beforehand defended the flag).
“Really, the media is the only one that has talked about this issue,” Haley added of her slavery omission.
As Harris identified, “No, that’s actually not true.”
Haley went on, insisting that “not one person on the ground in New Hampshire or Iowa are talking about it. I’ve done multiple town halls.”
That additionally isn’t true. The day after the incident, a voter requested Haley a query, providing her a possibility to “redeem yourself after last night’s slavery thing.”
That morning, following fierce backlash in a single day, Haley had backpedaled, telling a New Hampshire radio station the Civil War was clearly about slavery. She additionally claimed the one that requested the query was a “Democrat plant.”
Faulker acknowledged the “plant” accusation, however instructed it was irrelevant, noting that Haley declined to quote slavery as the reason for the warfare even when prompted by the voter.
“Whatever,” Faulkner mentioned. “It’s a question put to you, and on a re-ask, ‘what would you have me say about slavery’ was your answer.”
Haley mentioned it was a mistake and her marketing campaign was shifting on.
“I should have said slavery. I didn’t do it. I immediately the very next day came out said I was wrong. I’ll do that. We’re moving on,” she mentioned.
