Days before the New Hampshire Republican primary, her party's candidate Nikki Haley questioned Donald Trump's mental ability to govern after the 77-year-old former president appeared to mistook her for another political leader.
During Friday's rally, Donald Trump mentioned Nikki Haley's name several times when he addressed the topic of his supporters storming the US Capitol on January 6, 2021.
Nikki Haley is in charge of security. We offered him 10,000 people, soldiers, National Guard, whatever they wanted. They refused
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Democrat Nancy Pelosi, then Speaker of the House of Representatives, had previously been accused in the past of rejecting such an offer for which there was no evidence, according to a parliamentary investigative committee report.
I wasn't even in Washington on January 6th [2021]!
Nikki Haley told voters in New Hampshire on Saturday that she will play a big role in the vote there on Tuesday.
My concern, without wanting to belittle, is that when you have to deal with the pressures of the presidency, you can't have someone who you wonder is mentally capable of doing it.
she added.
Former Governor of South Carolina and Ambassador to the United StatesUnited nationswho just turned 52, also addressed the topic during an interview with Fox News: I'm not saying it's like Joe Biden, but what I'm saying is: Are we really going to have two octogenarians running for president?
Do we really want to see them calling names and making mistakes at 80 when they have to deal with Putin, Xi and Kim?
she asked, referring to the leaders of Russia, China and North Korea.
Donald Trump, 77, regularly mocks the gaffes and the age of Joe Biden, 81, whom he portrays as almost senile.
The former tenant of the White House, and the front-runner for his party's presidential nomination in November, won a landslide victory during the Iowa caucuses on Monday.
Nikki Haley will have to have a very good result on Tuesday if she wants to be able to shake it off.
