American presidential candidate Nikki Haley expressed her doubts whether her main opponent Donald Trump is still sane during the campaign for the Republican primaries on Saturday. Former President Trump repeatedly confused Haley with Democratic politician Nancy Pelosi in a speech a day earlier. Haley spoke of his “deterioration.”
“The concern I have — without being derogatory — is the pressure of the presidency,” Haley said in Keene, New Hampshire. “We cannot have someone whose mental fitness we doubt.”
It is Haley's sharpest attack on Trump yet. Haley is fighting in New Hampshire for one last chance to make the Republican primaries exciting after Trump's convincing victory in Iowa last week. Her age (52) has been an important issue for Haley since the start of the campaign. She presents herself as “a leader of a new generation” who must replace both President Joe Biden (81) and Trump (77). She has been advocating mental competency tests for older politicians for some time. “I'm not saying it's as bad as Joe Biden,” she said. “But do we really want two candidates who will be president in their eighties?”
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Conservative Nikki Haley was previously governor of South Carolina and served under Trump as US ambassador to the United Nations. She has so far been cautious in her criticism of Trump, who is popular among Republicans.
He also recently stepped up his attack on her, including by calling her by her Indian first name, Nimarata, and falsely suggesting that she is not American and therefore unfit to be president. Haley is the daughter of Indian immigrants in South Carolina.
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On Tuesday, northeastern New Hampshire will become the second state to vote on who should become the Republican presidential nominee in November. Trump stands well ahead of his two remaining opponents in polls: Haley and Ron DeSantis, the governor of Florida. Yet the battle could be more exciting than in Iowa, where Trump won more than half of the votes. In New Hampshire, voters who are not registered as Republicans are also allowed to vote in the primaries.
Both Haley and DeSantis have said they have no interest in Trumps running mate and become vice president.
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