Whether and to what extent she zeroes in on the issue, which has become a bone of contention between the GOP’s establishment and MAGA wings, will say something about her campaign’s strategy going forward. Mostly, though, she has railed against the refusal by DeSantis (and Trump, to a lesser extent) to commit to backing Ukraine as it fights against the invasion by Vladimir Putin’s Russia. In one her most-discussed campaign ads, called “ A Choice, not an Echo,” Haley’s campaign portrayed DeSantis as an empty vessel and even highlighted what some have described as DeSantis’ efforts to mimic Trump’s hand gestures. As for DeSantis, she has mostly referred to him as a carbon copy of Trump. Haley also proposed a mental competency test for politicians over the age of 75 – a group that, in the context of this campaign, includes only Trump and Biden, whom she at one point suggested was unlikely to live out a second term in office. “And we are more than ready for a new generation to lead us into the future.” “We’re ready to move past the stale ideas and faded names of the past,” Haley said in February. Haley has so far sought to avoid any direct conflict with Trump, instead training her ire more directly on DeSantis and only criticizing the former president in vague terms. How Haley answers the question this time out, and whether she is willing to offer more of a plan than an observation, will be instructive as to her view of the issue and its role in the campaign. “Dismissing this task as unrealistic is not acceptable.” “The pro-life movement must have a nominee who will boldly advocate for this consensus, and as president will work tirelessly to gather the votes necessary in Congress,” Dannenfelser said. Anthony Pro-Life America, cast the former governor as a defeatist. Henry McMaster, Haley’s successor and a former lieutenant governor, signed a six-week ban, though a state judge has since temporarily blocked the new restrictions from going into effect.įollowing Haley’s comments to CBS News, Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of the anti-abortion Susan B. That was, she has said, the most ambitious bill that could pass at the time. “Why try and divide people further?”ĭuring her time as governor of the Palmetto State, Haley signed a 20-week abortion ban. We’re not even close to that on the Republican or Democratic side,” Haley recently told CBS News. Nothing’s going to happen if we don’t get 60 votes in the Senate. “I’m not going to lie to the American people. Recently, she endorsed a federal abortion ban – while, at the same time warning that conservatives need to be real and admit that they do not, and likely will not, have the votes in Washington to make that happen. But what that means in practice, and in a campaign where candidates are being pressed for specifics, has been harder to pin down. Personally, she is unreservedly anti-abortion. When asked about the most divisive topic in contemporary politics, Haley has repeatedly said her main goal is to find consensus on abortion. What kind of abortion law does Haley want? Now, with the first round of primary debates on the horizon, Haley will have a chance to clarify her views and make her case to a national audience ahead of yet more campaign announcements this coming week, including expected entries by former Vice President Mike Pence and former New Jersey Gov. So far, she has come under some criticism for not providing clear answers on her own policy agenda and her attempts to balance her critiques of Trump – and Trumpism – with the fact that she served in his administration as the US ambassador to the United Nations. A moderate, at least in the current context of the Republican Party, Haley is trying to formulate a coalition composed of the GOP’s anti-Trump and Trump-fatigued voters along with a chunk of the former president’s conservative base. Like so many others now flooding the race, she tends to slot in with those currently receiving support in the single digits, laps behind Trump and DeSantis. Haley’s early poll numbers among Republicans have been meek. On Sunday night, though, at a live CNN town hall in Iowa, Haley will have her clearest opportunity yet to distinguish herself from the growing Republican presidential field – and make the case that she is both the best candidate to upend Trump in next year’s primaries and then defeat President Joe Biden in the fall. Ron DeSantis, who are dueling for support from the GOP’s right-wing base. Nikki Haley entered the Republican primary in February with a call for “generational change.” But her message has largely been drowned out by former President Donald Trump and Florida Gov.
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