Biden campaign confronts MAGA extremist Nikki Haley over abortion

A GOP presidential hopeful’s comments on abortion earned them the “extremist MAGA” treatment from the White House as the Biden campaign pushed for “…fear, anxiety and fear…”

On Friday in Iowa, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, businessman Vivek Ramaswamy and former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley joined The FAMiLY Leader President and CEO Bob Vander Plaats for the Presidential Forum for Action de Gracie FAMILIA 2023. There, each candidate faced what she considered her “biggest obstacle,” and for the former South Carolina governor that was her stated position on abortion.

Shortly after the event concluded, President Joe Biden’s re-election campaign director of rapid response, Ammar Moussa, focused on Haley’s response as he stated, “Nikki Haley is not a moderate — she’s a anti-abortion MAGA extremist who wants to take away women’s liberties just like she did when she was governor of South Carolina.”

“Now Haley promises to bring the same fear, anxiety and dread that forced the women of South Carolina to every woman in the country,” the director added. “Whether it’s Donald Trump, Nikki Haley, or any other MAGA extremist, the entire camp is running a dangerous anti-freedom agenda that the American people have made it clear they don’t want.”

The statement specifically highlighted five seconds of more than six minutes of dialogue in which Vander Plaats asked, “If you were governor of South Carolina and this came across your desk, would you sign the heartbeat bill?”

“Yeah,” Haley’s response began as the clip shortened.

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“Nikki Haley is not a moderate: she is an anti-abortion MAGA extremist who wants to take away women’s liberties just like she did when she was governor of South Carolina. https://t.co/E1acLjNgL6 pic.twitter.com/0TAC6CT7rL

– Ammar Moussa (@ammarmufasa) November 18, 2023

As it happened, the ambassador went on to say, “Whatever the people decide you should go, I think it is right to be in the hands of the people.”

“I think the people decided, this was put in the states, that’s where it should be, everybody can give their voice and if that’s where, and I can tell you, that’s where the people of South Carolina decided . They decided to be at six weeks, too,” Haley said.

The entire exchange had been sparked by comments made during the third GOP debate held in Miami after which viewers had expressed the view that the presidential hopeful had come out in favor of abortion.

“Can you reassure them why this is not a pro-choice response?” Vander Plaats asked about his statements about how to send a message to the problem.

Haley’s response, which came after DeSantis and Ramaswamy had revealed the tragic miscarriages their wives experienced before their first children were born, also took heat from conservatives when she declared, “What you heard me saying in the debate was very much my truth.”

“I’m unapologetically pro-life…but it’s important that we remember what our overall goal is,” she continued, before suggesting: “Our overall goal is, how can we save as many babies as possible and support to as many mothers as we can. ?”

Among the most vocally critical of Haley’s “truth” were DeSantis campaign supporters like BlazeTV host Steve Deace, who said, “Nikki Haley dropped a ‘my truth’ in a room of ‘Iowa evangelicals is, um, something,’ and the governor himself. Quick Response Director Christina Pushaw who added, “There is no such thing as ‘my truth,’ ‘your truth,’ or ‘Nikki Haley’s truth.’ There is only THE truth.”

There is no such thing as “my truth,” “your truth,” or “Nikki Haley’s truth.”

There is only THE truth. https://t.co/pPCsc6PicU

— Christina Pushaw (@ChristinaPushaw) November 17, 2023

Nikki Haley used the phrase “my truth” tonight when talking about abortion.

The phrase “my truth” is the calling card of left-wing wokesters.

I’m telling you…

— Josh Power (@JoshPower80) November 18, 2023

Meanwhile, earlier in the day at a town hall in Iowa, Haley argued that she would be the last candidate to run in a head to head with former President Donald Trump when the time came for voters in her home state to go to the polls and she would be the victor.

However, with South Carolina Senator Tim Scott dropping out of the race, support had shifted to DeSantis and Trump remained a distant frontrunner in many polls.

Staff writer

A native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College, where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and seeker of truth, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and dog, and when he’s not researching current events and their impacts, you’ll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel ·the.

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