Civil Battle Gaffe Undercuts Nikki Haley’s 2024 Pitch

Republican Nikki Haley, who till this week had run a disciplined and largely error-free presidential marketing campaign, has been pressured into an uncomfortable and surprising new chore: doing cleanup on a blunder associated to the Civil Battle and slavery.

The previous South Carolina governor and United Nations ambassador was pressured into defensive mode after she omitted slavery from a solution she gave at a New Hampshire marketing campaign occasion the place she was requested what prompted the Civil Battle. Her long-winded response prevented giving the reply to a primary query most realized in grade college, teeing up a barrage of criticism from political foes.