Haley, the most internationalist candidate in the race, keeps saying things about foreign influence that would have gotten her labeled an isolationist only ten years ago. Times change.
Haley gives a perfect answer to Eliana Johnson’s question about what threats keep her up at night: “what happens between now and the election while Joe Biden is in office.”
“What keeps me up at night is what happens between now and Election Day with Joe Biden in office,” Nikki Haley said, declaring that the country is in a “September 10” mentality. It’s a strong answer. Women candidates often face a question of whether the electorate will perceive them as tough enough to do the job of commander-in-chief as a time of war. I doubt there are many voters who think Haley’s not tough enough to be president.
Haley: “ban Tik Tok once and for all.”
Nikki Haley calls for the banning of TikTok in a debate where TikTok is one of the biggest advertisers during commercial breaks. I do enjoy the irony.
Worth noting that Ramaswamy’s insistence that the audience is stocked with big-money donors should be taken in the context that this debate is held in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
For what it’s worth, my inbox is flooded like the tunnels of Gaza with DeSantis Press rapid responses.
Almost everything that the Trump campaign complained about after the 2020 presidential election was conspiratorial nonsense… EXCEPT for Pennsylvania’s decision to count mail-in ballots that didn’t have a clear postmark or any postmark on them, as Tom Fitton of Judicial Watch just asked about. (The number of counted ballots that had missing or smeared postmarks was smaller than Biden’s margin in Pennsylvania, so counting these ballots did not give Biden the win. But it’s bad policy; the state needs to know that the mailed ballot was mailed before the deadline. I liked DeSantis’ answer that he would operate under all the state laws, even if he disagreed with a particular state’s laws for ballot harvesting, etc.
DeSantis nails the voter-integrity issue. “If they’re harvest, we’re harvesting.” This has been a huge contradiction for Trump, who has said that the voting procedures are not secure, but then discourages his voters from any other kind of voting but in-person on Election Day.
“What they did to Donald trump with the Russia collusion was one of the biggest abuses of power in our history.” – DeSantis on the FBI and the Justice Department.