No doubt, Nikki Haley’s brain freeze in failing to mention slavery when asked what caused the Civil War harms her quest to be the Republican presidential nominee. But what an overhyped story! After all, the odds that she could win the nomination even without such gaffes are very long, to put it mildly. Plus, President Biden and Vice President Harris say asinine things virtually every time they speak publicly; even factoring in anti-GOP media bias, the public sighs at this stuff — at least that sliver of the public that pays it any mind (which is an even smaller sliver this time of year).
In 2015, as governor of the first state to secede from the Union after Abraham Lincoln’s 1860 election, Haley removed the Confederate flag from South Carolina’s state capitol after a mass-murder attack at a black Methodist church in Charleston. Patently, she is neither a racist nor ignorant about the Civil War.
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