Nikki Haley as a Miseducated and Morally Questionable Candidate for President
The questioner asked Haley, “What was the cause of the Civil War?”
At a campaign town hall stop in Berlin, New Hampshire on Wednesday, December 27, 2023, a questioner asked Nikki Haley an ordinarily softball question in the context of the Granite State that any fifth-grade public school student should be able to answer accurately.
Haley, though, morphed it into a hardball coming at fast speed. Within her South Carolina roots, this very question sparks intense and sometimes violent slug matches.
The questioner asked Haley, “What was the cause of the Civil War?”
Following a pained expression and a tense deep breath, she entered into a long winded and inarticulate ramble about the role of government that seemed to satisfy no one, least of all the questioner.
“I think it always comes down to the role of government and what the rights of the people are,” she said. “And we will always stand by the fact that I think the government was intended to secure the rights and freedoms of the people.”
The questioner was confounded that Haley did not mention slavery in her response:
