C'mon Nimarata!

Maybe Nikki Haley needs to take a competency test.

Republican candidate Nikki Haley got rocked by her latest flub while on the campaign trail. As a woman of color, Haley is constantly denouncing racism and trying to avoid talking about issues that rile up conservatives. She and former presidential contender, Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) refuse to believe America is still racist.

Nimarata Randhawa Haley is a former United Nations ambassador, former South Carolina governor, former state representative and current 2024 Republican candidate for president. She is 51 years old, married with two children.

She is strangely obsessed with Vice President Kamala Harris, the first African American and Indian American woman to hold the office. She called for competency tests for President Joe Biden and her boss, former president Donald J. Trump. Haley is like Trump and Biden when it comes to Israel. She is willing to allow the country to commit war crimes without any punishment or sanctions.

She is currently trailing Trump by 30 points. She is ahead of Ron DeSantis, the current governor of Florida by 6 points.

She is also obsessed with Ohio businessman, Republican candidate Vivek Ramaswamy. 

Ramaswamy has called out Haley for trying to bury her Indian heritage. He is not afraid of using his name. Kamala Harris isn't afraid to use her name. Why is Nikki?

She shot back at him.

“First of all, I was born with Nikki on my birth certificate, I was raised as Nikki, I married a Haley, and so that is what my name is, so he can say or misspell or do whatever he wants,” she said. “But he can’t step away from the fact that, look, he’s the one that said he’s gonna abandon Israel. Those were his words. Now he’s wanting to walk it back, and the reality is you have to understand the importance of our allies and those relationships.”

She is afraid of people confusing her for being a foreigner. She is not. Her parents emigrated to the U.S. in the 1960s. Her father taught biology at Voorhees University, a historically Black college.

A question on slavery went south fast.

The reason for the Civil War was the fact that states that advocated for slavery were not willing to accept a decree.

The central cause of the war was the dispute over whether slavery would be permitted to expand into the western territories, leading to more slave states, or be prevented from doing so, which many believed would place slavery on a course of ultimate extinction.

Nearly 2.4 million people died from the American Civil War.

Abraham Lincoln was assassinated shortly after the war ended by a far right maniac.

Republicans keep harking on the claims that the Democrats were the party of slavery.

When the Democrats want to remove references to slavery, the Confederacy and apologizing for atrocities done by the United States, Republicans are outraged.

It is like you can't have it both ways!

Vivek Ramaswamy and Nikki Haley are Indian American. They refuse to acknowledge racism exists in American politics and the way of life.

Nonetheless, Haley was asked by an audience member at a town hall in northern New Hampshire what she believed to be the cause of the Civil War, according to an exchange captured by CNN and several other media outlets.

In response, Haley first paused, and said, "Well, don't come at me with an easy question."

She then added: "I mean, I think the cause of the Civil War was basically how government was going to run, what you could and couldn't do, the freedoms in what people could and couldn't do."

After some back and forth, the man who asked the question responded: "In the year 2023, it's astonishing to me that you answer that question without mentioning the word 'slavery.'"

In response, Haley first paused, and said, "Well, don't come at me with an easy question."

She then added: "I mean, I think the cause of the Civil War was basically how government was going to run, what you could and couldn't do, the freedoms in what people could and couldn't do."

After some back and forth, the man who asked the question responded: "In the year 2023, it's astonishing to me that you answer that question without mentioning the word 'slavery.'"

There is broad consensus among scholars that slavery was the main cause of the war, which occurred between 1861 and 1865. The Southern states, which seceded, opposed attempts by Northern states to limit the institution of slavery, particularly in western territories.

The moment Tim Scott realized he was toast.

On Thursday morning, Haley sought to walk back her comments on The Pulse of NH, a radio show.

"Of course the Civil War was about slavery, that's the easy part," she said. "Yes, I know it was about slavery. I am from the South."

President Joe Biden trolled Haley. He took aim at her over the competency tests and his handling of world affairs. This one he posted on X was a basic reminder that he still sharp on the issues.

Biden posted a video of Haley's exchange on social media with the caption: "It was about slavery."

The press secretary for Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, another Republican presidential contender, pointed to critical comments by a number of DeSantis advisers on X.

"If Nikki Haley can't answer this basic political 101 question and then it takes her over 12 hrs to sloppily attempt to clean it up, she just isn't ready for the bright lights of the nomination process," wrote senior DeSantis adviser David Polyansky.

A representative for former President Donald Trump, the frontrunner for the Republican nomination, did not respond to a request for comment.

Haley, like many public officials from the U.S. South, has a history of defending aspects of the Confederacy, as the states that seceded are known. She served as governor of South Carolina, the first state to secede, from 2011 to 2017.

Haley said in 2010 that the state had a right to secede. In 2015, she signed a bill into law removing the Confederate battle flag from the grounds of the state capitol following the murder of nine Black churchgoers by white supremacist Dylann Roof.

She was later criticized by some elected officials for describing that flag as a symbol of "heritage" for some Southerners.

Trump is winning the Republican presidential nominating contest with 61% support, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted earlier in December, while Haley and DeSantis are tied with 11%.

Haley is performing significantly better in New Hampshire, which is the second state after Iowa to select a preferred Republican nominee. She has about 25% support there, according to polling averages.