In calling out Trump, Nikki Haley warns of a more sinister threat
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They're taking control of the dining room table.. They're inside our homes, they're eating our meals, noooooo
Killah Ray
Carolina hail to thee....
After dealing with that bytch here in SC, I hope people don't fall for her bullshyt nationwide. Then again, she was hated by a lot of republicans here in SC on her way out and now those same people are longing for her leadership for some reason.
The axe murderer
For I am death and I ride on a pale horse
Somehow this isn't as big a threat as cancel culture. Not even the lives of the Senate'sThis indian bytch wanna be white so badly...just had a bunch of WHITE right wing racist domestic terrorists storm the capitol and she's worried about censorship...
the cac mamba
Veteran
im gonna relish watching the republicans throw her in the trash for kristi noem
she really thinks the ignorant, racist, sexist MAGA base is gonna elect her president
she really thinks the ignorant, racist, sexist MAGA base is gonna elect her president
ORDER_66
Demon Time coming 2024
Crazy right?!!?
like those muthafukkas was not trying to find them and execute them with zip ties and guns and shyt...
no she's worried big tech clamping down on extreme right wing outlets when they let all these muthafukkas had free reign before especially facebook...
Foxmulder
Superstar
All these republicans complaining about social media censorship on social media.
OK, Nimrata
Be mad because your minority rule, shut up and take it campaign failed.
Nikki Haley Is Running an Ageist Campaign
Ironically out of touch with young voters.- Kaivan Shroff
- 2 hours ago
Nikki Haley’s surge has come and gone as she faces inevitable defeat in her own home state of South Carolina in just a few days. Still, earlier today, Haley gave a defiant speech where she trotted out her same lazy attacks on President Biden’s age and made the pitch that her own party needs new, younger, leadership. Strikingly, despite Haley centering age in her campaign — compared to both Joe Biden and Donald Trump — she has failed to resonate with young voters in either form or substance. While I won’t say Haley is “past her prime,” she certainly comes across as a candidate past her time. It’s clear she doesn’t understand this modern political moment at all.
As a young voter and the press secretary for a Gen-Z-led progressive organization “ Dream for America,” Haley is uniquely disconnected from young Americans. Despite her calls for a “new generation” of leadership, Haley has not even attempted to run a 2024 campaign that reflects the political realities of our polarized, digital age. Form aside, substantively, the former U.N. ambassador is antagonistic to every single one of the policy priorities my generation champions.
Though Haley has at times tried to paint herself as the foil to Vice President Kamala Harris, electorally, she does not resonate with our generation the way Harris has, limiting her value as either the GOP nominee or a potential VP candidate.
Haley never goes viral for the right reasons.
That may sound like a silly critique of a presidential contender, but in a political media landscape where over 40% of voters 18-29 use social media as their primary news source — it matters.
Ironically, for someone who has made age-based critiques of her opponents central to her candidacy, attacking both Trump and Biden for being too old, Haley’s campaign seems either incapable of — or uninterested in — meeting young Americans where they are.
President Biden may be 81, but his campaign has embraced both a viral “Dark Brandon” meme and built digital assets like ‘Biden HQ’ to effectively recast the administration and its critics in viral formats. The campaign’s recent decision to join TikTok was widely viewed as a smart strategic decision. For all his faults, Trump of course understands virality and social media better than most. Even the notoriously stiff Ron DeSantis was able to create the DeSantis War Room to deliver engaging content to his base of supporters. Haley’s disconnect in this arena was only compounded by her gaffe suggesting that she would ban anonymous online accounts — a proposal that was widely rebuked by both Democrats and Republicans.
Haley also fails to resonate with young voters who place a premium on authenticity.
If millennials were the “Instagram generation,” Gen Z is the “Be Real” demographic — the former known for overedited staging designed to attract engagement, the latter focused on countering that exact trend ( Be Real is a popular social media app that forces users to capture themselves in the moment).
Despite their age, and perhaps to the chagrin of their campaigns, both Biden and Trump share a quality of coming across as their unscripted, unedited, selves. Haley is just the opposite. She has contorted herself from MAGA to moderate in the span of just one year, and young voters see through this poll-driven political persona. While just months ago, Haley decried so-called “identity politics” she now tries to cast herself as an immigrant and constantly pulls out one-liners that touch on her gender.
On the issues that matter to younger cohorts of voters, Haley is misaligned in practically every instance.
As Trump’s U.N. ambassador, Haley helped orchestrate the U.S. withdrawal from the Paris Climate Accord. She has spoken against “red flag” laws and parroted NRA talking points that gun violence prevention efforts would strip guns from “people who rightfully deserve to have them.” She supports a federal abortion ban — an issue that has galvanized young voters and proved a toxic issue for Republicans since the Dobbs decision last year. At the GOP debate in December, she even claimed that DeSantis’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill, targeting the LGBT+ community, didn’t go far enough.
Gen-Z activists across the country staged walkouts in protest of the extreme law.
On education, Haley has come out against widely popular student loan forgiveness policies; 43% of swing-state Gen-Z voters say that — despite his over $130 billion of student loan forgiveness so far — Biden hasn’t done enough on the issue.
Republicans have long struggled to connect with younger voters, but Haley is particularly out-of-touch with our demographic. While newcomers like Vivek Ramaswamy tookto TikTok and partnered with YouTubers like Jake Paul to attempt to win over young voters, Haley seems content to write-off the tens of millions of voters 30 and under making our voices heard at the ballot box. This approach severely limits her viability as a 2024 nominee. It also makes her less of an asset as a hypothetical vice-presidential candidate.
In elevating Haley, the Republican Party would signal it is giving up on trying to win over young voters altogether.
