Nikki Haley Receives Backlash After Word Salad on Civil War During Campaign Stop

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Running for office sometimes requires navigating tricky questions without coming across as inauthentic.

At a town hall in New Hampshire on Wednesday, presidential hopeful Nikki Haley failed miserably.

When asked by an attendee what the cause of the Civil War was, Haley replied after an uncomfortable pause, “Well, don’t come with an easy question, right?”

She said the issue at stake in the Civil War was “how government was going to run” and “the freedoms and what people could and couldn’t do.”

“What do you think the cause of the Civil War was?” she asked the questioner, to which he smartly replied, “I’m not running for president,” pressing her again for her thoughts on the matter.

“I mean, I think it always comes down to the role of government,” Haley repeated, “and what the rights of the people are.” She then transitioned into a word salad about freedom, capitalism, and as many other buzzwords as she could fit into one sentence.

At the end of Haley’s answer, the questioner responded, “In the year 2023, it’s astonishing to me that you answered that question without mentioning the word slavery.”

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