After initially dodging the question, Nikki Haley confirmed that she believed Donald Trump and Joe Biden are “equally bad” candidates ahead of her looming loss in New Hampshire.
“We heard you over and over in recent weeks on the campaign trail lumping Joe Biden and Donald Trump together. Do you believe they are equally bad for America?” CNN’s Dana Bash asked Haley.
Haley dodged the question at first, talking about how Trump and Biden were “too focussed on investigations” and said neither talk about issues. “You’ve got a country in disarray, you’ve got a world on fire and you’re going to focus on people who hurt your feelings? You’re going to focus on investigations that are involved with your families? You’re going to focus on vengeance?” Haley said of Trump and Biden.
After being pressed further, she finally admitted that she did believe Trump and Biden are equally bad. “I mean, if they were - if either one of them was good I wouldn’t be running. Yes, they are equally bad, that’s why I’m running is because I don’t think we need to have Biden or Trump. I don’t think we need to have two 80-year-olds sitting in the White House when we’ve basically got to make sure that we can handle the war situation that - that we’re in.”
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This attitude is largely reflective of Haley’s base as well, as nearly half of her supporters prefer Biden to Trump.
Matt Palumbo is the author of Fact-Checking the Fact-Checkers: How the Left Hijacked and Weaponized the Fact-Checking Industry and The Man Behind the Curtain: Inside the Secret Network of George Soros
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