Nikki Haley

Nikki Haley: Under Obama ‘you just felt, people felt like they were being put in camps’

Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley says only when Barack Obama became President did America "really" start to face racist "division," that under the nation's first Black president "everything became about race and gender, and that's when "you just felt, people felt like they were being put in camps."

Haley, a former Trump UN Ambassador and former South Carolina governor, has insisted America is not a racist country and has yet to put to bed her initial refusal to say slavery was the cause of the Civil War. In an hour-long interview on "The Breakfast Club," with hosts Charlamagne tha God and DJ Envy, Haley continued to weave a whitewashed web of America's history.

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Trump woos union bosses on election campaign trail

Former US president Donald Trump met leaders of one of the country's largest labor unions on Wednesday as he seeks the backing of blue-collar America in his bid for a stunning White House return.

The sit-down with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters in Washington came with Trump, a Republican, hoping to leach away support for Democratic President Joe Biden among manual laborers as the pair look set for a rematch in November's election.

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'Oh wow': Trump's stream of gaffes supercut leads Morning Joe panel to bust out laughing

Panelists on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" recoiled from a video montage of Donald Trump's gaffes in public remarks.

President Joe Biden's campaign has highlighted the ex-president's gaffes and missteps in campaign ads featuring criticism by Republican challenger Nikki Haley, and co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski were amazed.

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'Trump is confused again': Nikki Haley responds to Trump's Indiana ballot claim

Former President Donald Trump took to his Truth Social platform on Wednesday to gloat that former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (R-SC), his final major remaining challenger for the 2024 presidential nomination, did not qualify for the primary ballot in Indiana.

"Nikki Haley is not on the Ballot in Indiana because she didn’t get enough Petition Signatures — She missed the deadline!" wrote Trump. "If she’s not on in Indiana, she’s not a serious Candidate. 'You can’t miss Indiana, and say you’re running for President,' said future Senator of Indiana, Jim Banks."

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Trump's campaign advisor warns GOP donors not to take his words 'too seriously': report

Give with your heart, not your ears.

Susie Wiles, a top GOP adviser to former President Donald Trump's third bid for the White House, made such a pitch to deep-pocketed mega donors at a ritzy and hush-hush mixer at Palm Beach, Florida's Four Seasons on Tuesday, according to CNBC. It reported she told people not to take the ex-president's words too seriously.

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'Lots of luck': Morning Joe baffled by GOP hitching wagon to 'seven-time loser' Trump

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough marveled that the Republican Party was once again hitching their wagon to "seven-time loser" Donald Trump.

The quadruple-indicted, twice-impeached former president is the clear frontrunner in the GOP primary three years after some leading Republicans denounced him for inciting the Jan. 6 insurrection, and the "Morning Joe" host said he would likely lead them into another losing election cycle.

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Trump under 'enormous financial strain' as new report reveals legal fees are 'staggering'

Former President Donald Trump’s super PACs blew through $50 million in legal fees as four criminal indictments crashed down on him last year, according to a new report.

“It is a staggering sum,” wrote New York Times reporters Maggie Haberman and Shane Goldmacher Tuesday. “Nikki Haley raised roughly the same amount of money across all her committees in the last year.”

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Ego-bruised Trump insists to aides he's 'more popular' than Taylor Swift: report

Donald Trump's allies are already preparing a "holy war" against pop superstar Taylor Swift if she endorses President Joe Biden.

Sources familiar with the matter told Rolling Stone the former president's loyalists and other allies assume the singer-songwriter will eventually endorse Biden, as she did in 2020, and that likely move infuriates Trump and has already prompted MAGA culture warriors to whip up conspiracy theories about Swift and her NFL star boyfriend Travis Kelce.

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'They've come home': Billionaires who abandoned Trump rush back as he beats competition

Billionaire megadonors are lining up behind Donald Trump now that he's won the first two Republican primaries.

The former president will meet for dinner with two-dozen GOP donors Thursday at the Palm Beach, Florida, home of billionaire investor John Paulson, after meeting Saturday with several other megadonors, including aerospace tycoon Robert Bigelow, who had been the biggest contributor to Ron DeSantis, reported Politico.

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Trump chose 'the stupidest way possible' to try to steal an election: law professor

Harvard Law professor Lawrence Lessig outlined a detailed analysis of all the possible scenarios that could lead to the stealing of a presidential election — and blasted Donald Trump for choosing the "stupidest possible way" of doing it.

In their new book, "How to Steal a Presidential Election," which Lessig co-authored with Matthew Seligman, they show that there were smarter ways Trump and his allies could have used in an attempt to steal the 2020 election. The way that was chosen was deeply flawed because it relied on blatantly false documents and crackpot legal theories.

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'He's declined — that's a fact': Nikki Haley ramps up attacks on Trump's mental faculties

Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley is growing bolder about calling out what she sees as former President Donald Trump's cognitive decline.

In a CBS Mornings segment flagged by reporter Scott MacFarlane, Haley, the final major candidate challenging Trump for the 2024 presidential nomination, was asked by Nate Burleson whether she thinks Trump is losing his mental faculties, and clearly said she did. This comes after Trump raised eyebrows by repeatedly confusing Haley with former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and claiming she blocked National Guard assistance on January 6.

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'Ultimate degeneration': Nevada Republicans fear they've made their state 'irrelevant'

Nevada Republicans thought they had a brilliant plan to prevent any of former President Donald Trump's rivals from challenging him for the delegates in their state — but instead, reported Politico on Tuesday, their plan has blown up in their face, as they are holding multiple contests with different candidates in each, voters are confused about which will even count, and nationally Republicans have written off the whole state as "irrelevant."

The trouble began when the Democratic-controlled state legislature passed a law shifting Nevada from holding caucuses, which are increasingly falling out of favor due to their complexity and track record of disenfranchising voters, with state-run primaries. But the state GOP decided to hold a caucus anyway and declare that the results of the primary won't count. Party insiders like former executive director Chuck Muth warned this was "bullsh*t" and only done because leaders “wanted the caucus rigged for Trump.”

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'Juries still get it right': Nikki Haley praises verdict and mocks Trump 'temper tantrums'

Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley praised a jury that found Donald Trump liable for defaming writer E. Jean Carroll.

During a Monday interview on Fox News, Haley stood firm on earlier comments about American juries after Trump was ordered to pay Carroll $83 million.

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