CNN pretended to hold a Town Hall with Nikki Haley last night, allowing softball questions only from the CNN moderator, Erin Burnett, and from pre-selected R audience members who say they are going to the Iowa Caucuses. I will not attempt a full analysis here. I am just going to mark up her main statements, thus.
Haley Town Hall Rush Transcript
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: True
🤔: Yeah, we can discuss that
👈😂: Oh, yeah? You and which Republicans?
📢📢📢: What used to be a lying Dog Whistle
😠😠😠: Flat-out lie
🤦🤦🤦: Fuggedaboudit
That is,
I expect the DK commentariat to do this nonsense full justice.
Nothing about abortion, naturally.
Guns📢📢📢
- Mental health👈😂
- Addiction👈😂
- Lack of insurance👈😂
- Secure schools like airports🤦🤦🤦
- MSM talks about race, gun control, âall these other issuesâ🤦🤦🤦
What about Donald Trump?📢📢📢
- Right policiesâŠ🤦🤦🤦
- but chaos follows him🤔
- Donât defeat Democrat chaos with Republican chaos🤦🤦🤦
- Leave negativity and baggage behind👈😂
- and focus on the real issues👈😂
- âI defeat Biden by 17 pointsâ in unnamed polls🤦🤦🤦
- a mandate to stop wasteful spending and get inflation under control🤦🤦🤦
- education back to the basics🤦🤦🤦
- secure border🤦🤦🤦
- Law and Order📢📢📢
- Political prosecutions of Trump with no basis🤦🤦🤦
- âand then you see some that heâs gotta answer forâ🤔
- âAt what cost? 8 trillion in 4 years. Our kids will never forgive us for thatâ🤔
- How he deals with dictators🤔
- China gave us covid😠😠😠
- Youâre gonna pick a fight with Israelâs Prime Minister?😠😠😠
Border Policy📢📢📢
- Those who want to contributeâŠ🤔
- vs. border security. 📢📢📢
- Biden, dereliction of duty😠😠😠
- Abbot doing everything he can to save Texans😠😠😠
- barbed wire good😠😠😠
- Dems inviting another Sept. 11âIt only takes one😠😠😠
- I passed the toughest law in the countryâWe will take that national👈😂
- e-verify to require to prove that their employees are in this country legally📢📢📢
- defund the sanctuary cities once and for all👈😂
- 35,000 Border Patrol and ICE agents👈😂
- make all migrants remain in Mexico to apply👈😂
- âBut our legal immigration system is completely broken, too.â🤔
- It shouldnât take 10 years to become a citizen🤔
- merit, not random quotas🤔
- âThe busing from TX and FL has been hugely effective because all of a sudden the rest of the country is having to deal with what Texas has had to deal with for so longâ📢📢📢
- âWe are a country of laws. The second we give up being a country of laws we give up everything this country was founded on.â📢📢📢
Economy📢📢📢
- Graduating students🤔
- covid🤔
- $8 trillion Trump debt🤔
- average home buyer 49 years old[?]
- canât find jobs😠😠😠
- inflation up😠😠😠
- Cut spending [forget Keynes]📢📢📢
- 80 million Americans on Medicaid
- 42 million Americans on food stamps
- No earmarks📢📢📢
- âThe first thing we need to do is claw back the over $100 billion of unspent covid dollars.â 👈😂
- âInstead of 87,000 IRS agents going after middle America,😠😠😠
- letâs go after the hundreds of billions of dollars of covid fraud.â 😠😠😠
- âThen weâre gonna go and take as many Federal programs as we can, and send them down to the states. That will reduce the size of the Federal government, but it will empower people on the ground. Think health care, think welfare, think education, if we started doing that.â👈😂
- 70% of Federal employees are working from home 3 years after covid. This is waste, not efficiency. 👈😂
- âThe rich are getting richer, and the poor are getting poorer.â🤔
- âThis is why I want to eliminate the Federal gas and diesel tax.â🤦🤦🤦
- Cut taxes on the middle class and simplify the brackets.👈😂
- Then lets make the small business tax cuts permanent.👈😂
- There is waste in every agency.📢📢📢
- Go to every agency, pull down the bureaucracy, the red tape, the programs we donât need to have📢📢📢
- Show the taxpayer a return on investment.🤔[Actually, been there, done that.]
Civil War📢📢📢
- I should have said slavery right off the bat🤔
- âŠbut if you grow up in South Carolina, literally in second and third grade, you learn about slavery.[I donât have an emoji for a nopology.]
- I was thinking past slavery, and all the lessons we have learned going forward.🤦🤦🤦
- But in my mind, thatâs a given [slavery].🤦🤦🤦
- If you talk about what you have in common, people let their guard down.🤔
- We had Black friends, we had White friends, but it was always a topic of conversation.📢📢📢
- And in the South weâre very comfortable talking about that.😠😠😠
- A month after the Walter Scott shooting, SC had the first body camera bill in the country.🤔
- After Mother Emmanuel shooting, decided to take down Confederate battle flags from state capitol getting two-thirds, bipartisan votes in both state government chambers.🤔
Israel📢📢📢
- A bright spot in a tough neighborhood.[But Israel stood up Hamas against the PLO.]
- We need to give Israel whatever they need, whenever they need it.
- We need to eliminate Hamas.
- We need to do whatever it takes to bring our hostages home.
- Israel will do whatever it can to protect civilian lives in Gaza.😠😠😠
- Everybody is putting the onus on Israel and on America.😠😠😠
Nothing about Israelâs war crimes.
Relocating Gazans
- No.🤔
- Get Hamas out, restore good government.😠😠😠
- Palestinian Authority allowed Hamas to do all of this in Gaza.😠😠😠[No, it was Netanyahu]
Warâ
- My opponents donât want to help Ukraine.â
- Donât give cash.🤔
- No US troops.â
- Give Ukraine equipment and suppliesâ
- Ukraine is protecting us at little cost to usâ
- Putin on the ropes. â
Woman as President📢📢📢
- America has been ready for a woman to be President, but itâs gotta be the right woman.📢📢📢
- Biden is wrong to say, âI want this kind of Supreme Court Justice or I want this kind of Vice President.â📢📢📢
- Someone who has moral clarity.📢📢📢
- Someone who has experience.🤔
China
- China never saw us as a competitor.😠😠😠
- They always saw us as an enemy.🤔
- 90% of our law enforcement drones are Chinese.â
- No more selling them any US oil👈😂
- âŠand we take back the land they purchased.👈😂
- End all normal trade relations until they stop murdering Americans with fentanyl 🤦🤦🤦
Motherhoodâ
Trump Pardon🤦🤦🤦
- For me, itâs not about guilt or innocence. Itâs about whatâs in the best interests of the country. 😠😠😠
- An 80-year-old President sitting in jail would divide our country. And we have to move on past that.😠😠😠
- Like Nixon.🤦🤦🤦
Uniting America🤦🤦🤦
- Tell the American people more than they want to know.🤔
- Replace the head of every agency, whether they are doing a good job or not.🤦🤦🤦
- Send people into every agency to cull programs.🤦🤦🤦
- Pull down any old regs.🤦🤦🤦
- Pull down bureaucracy.🤦🤦🤦
Yeah, I guess if she were President she could do those things, but it wouldnât unite the MAGAs and the Progressives, and a lot of people would take her to court.