At Donald Trump’s own event in South Carolina, Nikki Haley is ramping up her criticisms on his age.
On Saturday, Haley’s team will take a mobile billboard on a tour of the Myrtle Beach region. The billboard will pass by Trump’s Conway event, where the former president will make his first appearance in South Carolina this year, before to the GOP presidential primary on February 24.
According to AWN, Haley’s campaign has been playing a video that shows Trump and President Joe Biden looking bewildered and trailing off during their recent public statements in an effort to mock them. Following Haley’s Friday declaration that 81-year-old Biden and 77-year-old Trump will be utilising the White House as a “taxpayer-subsidized nursing home” and that Trump possesses “mental deficiencies,” nothing has changed.
On Thursday, the special counsel looking into Biden’s handling of confidential information released his findings on the subject, adding further weight to the age debate that has long been a part of presidential campaigns. Although the assessment concluded that no criminal charges were justified, it painted a negative picture of Biden’s mental capacity.
This month, Haley will face some of her most difficult opposition in conservative Horry County, which is also the location of Saturday’s Trump rally. In a still-crowded 2016 presidential primary, Trump received over half of the vote in Horry County. Now that the election has turned into a head-to-head match—and Haley is far behind—her campaign’s choice to send a travelling billboard truck into MAGA territory highlights her bold approach to rebuking Trump.
In spite of months of giving only mild criticism of the front-runner, the former governor of South Carolina has just launched an onslaught against Trump. This comes as Trump is vastly outpacing her in her home state. Early on in the state, Trump received numerous high-profile Republican endorsements, and he has maintained a tight hold on South Carolina’s conservative base.
Regardless of how she does in South Carolina, Haley and her top campaign advisers have stated that she intends to remain in the primary contest for the duration, and that she has no reason to withdraw before voters in states with Super Tuesday elections cast their ballots in early March.
In the year since she announced her nomination, Haley has repeatedly emphasised the need for a fresh, youthful face to head the party and the nation. But her critiques of Trump have been growing recently, and she even went on “Saturday Night Live” last weekend to air her grievances.
Trump has also attacked Haley, slamming a 2012 video of her at a Mitt Romney rally where she praises Obama instead of Romney and criticises her for accepting campaign donations from Democrats. The video was posted on Truth Social on Friday.
In response, 52-year-old Haley wrote, “Donald may be suffering from memory issues.” She was questioning whether Trump had forgotten that he had given money to lawmakers on the Democratic side.
On Saturday, Haley will set out on a bus tour of rural South Carolina, making stops along the way.
