After Trump seemed to mistake her for former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi while discussing the attack on the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley questioned Trump’s mental competence on Saturday.
Trump was bringing up the fact that I was the one who didn’t take security during the Capitol riots last night while he was speaking at a rally. The reason I botched January 6th. I wasn’t even in the nation’s capital on January 6th. “I was not serving at the time,” Haley stated.
They said he became confused. That he was talking about something else. It was Nancy Pelosi about whom he was speaking. “In that scenario, he mentioned me multiple times,” the former governor of South Carolina stated.
“The concern I have is – I’m not saying anything derogatory, but when you’re dealing with the pressures of a presidency, we can’t have someone else that we question whether they’re mentally fit to do it,” Haley told a throng of voters in Keene, New Hampshire.
Her remarks follow Trump’s, “By the way, they never report the crowd on January 6” remarks made at a New Hampshire campaign rally. Hey, Nikki Haley — did you hear that they wiped the slate clean, eliminated every last piece of evidence, and erased all traces of information? Everything came to pass for a variety of reasons. For example, since Nikki Haley oversees security, we extended an offer of 10,000 individuals, including troops, national guards, and everything else they would like. It was rejected.
According to a previous fact-check by AWN, Trump is mistaken in assuming that the speaker of the House is responsible for the security of the US Capitol. He has also confused Haley with Pelosi.
“We need people at the top of their game,” Haley said in a Saturday interview with Fox News. “I don’t mean to imply that we’re in a Joe Biden scenario, but are we seriously going to have two elderly people vying for the presidency?”
In the lead-up to Tuesday’s New Hampshire primary, Haley, who is 52 years old, has made an effort to draw attention to the fact that she is younger than Trump (77) and President Joe Biden (81). Any politician above the age of 75 would be subject to mental competency examinations, and she has been vocal about demanding term limits.
Ads in New Hampshire have cost Haley and her supporters roughly $28.6 million since the beginning of 2023, but ads for Trump have cost about $14.4 million.
But the distance between Trump’s ads and Haley’s has been shrinking in the past several weeks. Spending in New Hampshire since the new year has been roughly $8.5 million for Trump and his allies and $9 million for Haley and her backers.
The Trump campaign has viewed Haley as a major challenger in New Hampshire for weeks. During a rally and a series of social media attacks, the candidate made his intentions apparent.
