The Republican presidential candidate claims her political opponents used a stooge to ask an extremely simple question.

Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley on Thursday blamed a Democrat “plant” as the cause of an embarrassing exchange during a town hall in which she failed to mention slavery when asked about the causes of the Civil War.

The former South Carolina governor was roundly criticized for her answer at the event in New Hampshire on Wednesday in which she claimed the conflict was about “how government was going to run” and “the freedoms and what people could and couldn’t do.”

In an apparent effort to quell the backlash, Haley used a radio appearance Thursday morning to clarify her beliefs—and accuse the voter who asked her about the Civil War as being some kind of Democratic operative.

  • partial_accumen@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    “Biden and the Democrats keep sending Democrat plants to do things like this, to get the media to react,” Haley said, according to NH Journal. “We know when they’re there. We know what they’re doing.”

    Then Nikki, why didn’t you answer “slavery”? Were you bamboozled by a clever democrat plant that outflanked you or were you aware the entire time about the democrat plant and walked into the trap willingly with your answer? Neither of those makes you look good at all. Or is it neither of these things and your attempt to cover your mistake are making you look even worse than your bad answer at the event, which I didn’t even know was possible.