Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley slammed fellow 2024 Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy after he introduced up her daughter in Wednesday’s GOP major debate.
The tense alternate got here amid debate over whether or not to ban the social media app TikTok, which FBI and different nationwide safety officers have warned may ship private information to China’s authoritarian authorities.
“Her personal daughter was truly utilizing the app for a very long time, so that you would possibly wish to take care your loved ones first,” Ramaswamy stated to Haley on the occasion in Miami, the third GOP debate of the election cycle. The viewers booed in response.
“Depart my daughter out of your voice. … You’re simply scum,” Haley shot again with obvious contempt, rolling her eyes and shaking her head.
Haley’s daughter is in her mid-20s, nevertheless it’s nonetheless very uncommon for candidates to deliver up their opponents’ households as a part of an assault on a debate stage.
The 2 White Home hopefuls have sparred repeatedly throughout the major. On the first debate in August, Haley ripped into Ramaswamy for missing international coverage expertise.
Throughout one other a part of Wednesday’s debate, whereas discussing international coverage, Ramaswamy known as Haley “Dick Cheney in 3-inch heels,” referring to the previous GOP vp.
Haley shot again: “I’d first wish to say, they’re 5-inch heels — and I don’t put on them except you may run in them.”