Presidential candidate Nikki Haley confronted blowback earlier this week from each Republicans and Democrats on how she answered a query in regards to the Civil Struggle throughout a city corridor occasion in New Hampshire. Fellow presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy answered the identical query throughout a marketing campaign occasion in Iowa on Thursday, prompting a distinct response on-line.
When requested on Wednesday, “What was the reason for the USA Civil Struggle?” Haley responded, “I believe the reason for the Civil Struggle was principally, how authorities was going to run — the freedoms and what individuals might and couldn’t do.”
Republican Florida Rep. Byron Donalds responded to Haley’s reply on X Thursday morning, “1. Psst Nikki… the reply is slavery PERIOD. 2. This actually doesn’t matter as a result of Trump goes to be the nominee. Trump 2024!”
President Joe Biden additionally chimed in by means of an X put up on Wednesday, “It was about slavery.”
Even Haley tried to stroll again her feedback on Thursday.
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On the marketing campaign occasion in Iowa, an viewers member requested Ramaswamy the identical query that was posed to Haley the day earlier than and requested for ideas on “if we’re headed to a different one, presumably.”
Ramaswamy laughed and stated, “You understand, you will have a governor of South Carolina who doesn’t know a lot in regards to the historical past of her personal state.”
Ramaswamy says slavery precipitated the Civil Struggle ‘to boil over’
He stated, “However South Carolina in 1832 — it’s one of many issues we realized in historical past class in eleventh grade — they really have been gonna secede from the Union. We’re speaking practically a pair many years earlier than the Civil Struggle.”
“This comes again to the current,” he continued. “Our historical past isn’t about our previous, it’s about our understanding of our future. So they really, in 1832 have been about to secede. Again then it was about tariffs between the North and South, however finally the factor that boiled us over was slavery.”
The presidential candidate defined how despite the fact that the USA was one single nation on the time, the North and the South had worth programs that have been essentially totally different. “So the powder keg was within the air, slavery was the match that we lit that precipitated it to boil over,” he stated.
Ramaswamy in contrast the differing worth programs to what he believes exists within the U.S. right this moment. He ended his response by explaining the need of getting a president “from the skin” who isn’t “prone to the particular pursuits that bought us to the place we’re.” He additionally added that the longer term president ought to be somebody from the subsequent era.
One X consumer responded to Ramaswamy’s reply, saying, “@VivekGRamaswamy is making extra sense than the others and he does it in a civil tone, and logical method. Regardless in the event you assist his candidacy or not, we as a nation, as a society, want extra of this. Two thumbs up.”
Chris Christie says Haley’s response is an indicator for future confrontation
One other Republican presidential candidate, Chris Christie, commented on Haley’s response at a marketing campaign occasion in New Hampshire on Wednesday, saying it signifies she prioritizes appeasing totally different political constituents over “telling the reality.”
He stated, “If she is unwilling to face up and say that slavery is what precipitated the Civil Struggle as a result of she’s afraid of offending constituents in different elements of the nation … what’s going to occur when she has to face as much as Vladimir Putin and President Xi?”