Nikki Haley dogged by Civil War controversy: ‘I had Black friends growing up’
Nikki Haley dogged by Civil War controversy: ‘I had Black friends growing up’
Republican presidential contender Nikki Haley is finding herself on defense again after she said “I had Black friends growing up” during a town hall as she sought to clean up remarks she made aroun…
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During a CNN town hall in Des Moines, Iowa, on Thursday, Haley was asked to respond to criticism made by fellow GOP White House candidate Chris Christie after the former U.N. ambassador initially omitted slavery in her answer about the cause of the Civil War. Christie claimed she had answered the way she did because she was “unwilling to offend anyone by telling truth.”
“What I will tell you is Chris Christie is from New Jersey." [She said.]
I'm sorry, wtf does New Jersey have to do with this?
He's a damyankee and doesn't understand, obviously
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No, she's right, jersey is a shithole and Christie is a giant piece of shit. The bad news is that he is a much more reasonable candidate than her.
While I agree about Christie, have you ever lived in New Jersey, outside of the immediate New York suburbs? Or do you just drive through on the turnpike and think you've seen it?
Camden/Cherry hill area ain’t so nice either 😅
Cherry Hill is actually fairly wealthy, though the 70 and 38 corridors are typical suburban shopping areas. Camden has some rough areas, but they've really been working on turning things around for well over a decade now. For example, Camden had no violent George Floyd protests: the cops and the police chief marched with the protestors, listened respectfully to the people who gave talks and speeches, and ended the entire thing with a huge community barbeque and ice cream.
Fair, I haven’t been up that way in more than ten years.
See New Jersey is one of them librul states, so by the transitive property, Chris Christie is a goldurn librul.
“Chris Christie is from New Jersey. He can describe the civil war accurately and not have every single one of his white in-state supporters desert him. I’m from South Carolina. I can’t.”
Yeah, that makes more sense.