Nikki Haley

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough condemned Donald Trump's latest remarks about the Civil War and bashed conservatives who continue to run cover for his outrageous statements and behavior.

The twice-impeached former president, who has been disqualified from the ballot in two states under the Constitution's insurrectionist clause, suggested in a campaign speech over the weekend that Abraham Lincoln should have negotiated an eventual end to slavery to avert bloodshed, and the "Morning Joe" host was appalled.

With Donald Trump's multiple court battles dominating the US Republican presidential primary, the bombastic front-runner isn't so much raining on his rivals' hopes of equal coverage as drowning them out completely.

A percolating scandal that would have finished off most candidates long ago, the ex-president's growing legal threats have been a shot in the arm as he has cleaved to the old PR adage that no publicity is bad publicity.

With Donald Trump appearing to be running away with the 2024 Republican party presidential nomination despite his myriad legal problems, the very fact that former Gov. Nikki Haley (R-SC) is making a run at him has exposed his Achilles heel when it comes to a critical segment of voters.

According to a report from the Daily Beast's Jake Lahut and Sam Brodey, the former president is struggling mightily making inroads with female voters and, more importantly, that includes Republican women who are repulsed by his third run for the Oval Office.

Donald Trump will face US voters for the first time in years when Iowa's presidential nomination contest on January 15 offers the clearest insight yet into whether he can convert his expansive polling leads into a stunning White House return.

The Republican ex-president had looked out for the count after leaving Washington under a cloud following the 2021 assault on the US Capitol by a pro-Trump mob seeking to keep the defeated tycoon in power.

Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley tried to make amends for her slavery gaffe — and seemed to step on yet another rake in the process.

At a CNN town hall in Iowa Thursday night, Haley made an effort to walk back last week’s failure to list slavery as the cause of the Civil War.

Two Republicans jostling for a distant second place behind Donald Trump in their race to be party flag-bearer took potshots at the former US president on Thursday, days before the first vote in the White House nomination process.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and one-time UN ambassador Nikki Haley turned their fire on their party's presumptive nominee just 11 days before Republican voters in Iowa make their choice.

Conservative supporters of former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley's presidential campaign, including billionaire Charles Koch and New Hampshire Republican Gov. Chris Sununu, see her as the GOP's best alternative to primary frontrunner Donald Trump. And Trump, ahead of the New Hampshire primary, is trying to slow down her momentum in that state.

Trump's latest line of attack against "High-Tax Haley" is accusing her of promoting gas taxes in South Carolina. Haley, according to Politico's Lisa Kashinsky, is pushing back.

Vivek Ramaswamy defended former U.S. Rep. Steve King from accusations of racism Wednesday after the Iowa Republican endorsed the Ohio entrepreneur’s presidential campaign.

King, who previously represented Iowa’s 4th Congressional District in Washington, D.C., announced his endorsement of Ramaswamy for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination Tuesday night. In a video shared to the social media platform X, King said he supports Ramaswamy because he will defend Americans’ rights and build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border “for real.”

The Republican primaries are proceeding with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley vying for second place while Donald Trump appearing clearly headed for the GOP nomination.

But, according to Salon's Heather Digby Parton, Trump wants to get them wrapped up as soon as possible.

Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley is facing backlash after she failed to cite slavery as a cause of the Civil War during a town hall event in New Hampshire last week. She later clarified that “of course the Civil War was about slavery,” but her initial reluctance to say so is indicative of how Republican leaders have long avoided reckoning with the country’s past, says Harvard historian Khalil Gibran Muhammad. “Nikki Haley has consistently denied the relevance of the history of racism in this country and the presence of racism in this country,” he says. “This is the Republican Party.”

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Fox News host Harris Faulkner challenged Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley Wednesday after she initially failed to admit that slavery was the cause of the U.S. Civil War.

During an interview on Wednesday, Faulkner asked Haley about the firestorm that followed after she dodged slavery when a voter asked her what started the Civil War.