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Nikki Haley, the former U.N. ambassador running behind President Donald Trump by many points in the race for this year's Republican nomination for president, has appeared on video explaining what it was like to grow up a "brown girl."
Her family has a heritage that comes through India.
In a video posted at the Liberty Daily, she explains, "I was teased every day for being brown."
She suggested that anyone who wants to question her, can go back and "look at what I've said, on how hard it was to grow up in the Deep South as a brown girl."
She touted her actions as governor of South Carolina.
"Anybody can look at my record, and see when Walter Scott was shot down by a dirty cop, how I made sure the Walter Scott family didn't suffer because we put the first body-camera bill in the country in place."
She also boasted of her campaign to "call for the Confederate flag to come down" after multiple murders in a church setting.
"Saying that I had black friends is a source of pride," she said. "Saying that I had white friends was a source of pride."
She noted she once was disqualified from a beauty pageant because officials claimed she was neither black nor white.
A separate report at The Federalist, however, warned that Haley is not expanding the GOP, she's just bringing in Democrats and independents, as apparently happened at the recent Iowa caucuses.
"It’s shaping up to be the same story in New Hampshire, which holds its primary on Tuesday. New Hampshire has an open primary, meaning independents or unaffiliated voters (who make up 40 percent of all registered voters in the state) can cast ballots in the GOP primary election. Because the Democrat Party isn’t holding a primary, and because New Hampshire voters had until Oct. 6 to change party registration, a lot of Democrats are expected to be voting in the Republican primary this week."
"Who will these non-Republicans [be] voting for? Nikki Haley, of course. One poll found that among Haley supporters only 28 percent were Republicans, versus 53 percent who said they were Democrats. Another New Hampshire poll this week found that among voters who consider themselves left-leaning or moderate, Haley is beating Trump 56 to 27 percent. The same poll also found that a staggering 37 percent of likely Haley voters say their support for the former U.N. ambassador isn’t so much a vote for Haley but against Trump."
The report continued, "Will the new voters she’s supposedly bringing in vote Republican in November? Probably not. Indeed, polling suggests that very few of the Democrats planning to vote for Haley next week in New Hampshire would choose her (much less Trump) over Biden in a two-way race. A sizeable number of them even admit they’re animated by anti-Trump sentiment, which means they likely support Democrat policies and priorities and aren’t coming over to the GOP side so much as infiltrating the Republican primary to skew the results against Trump."
The report noted Trump in 2016 "stood in contrast to the Republican establishment — and the Democrat establishment, for that matter — that attracted so many disaffected Dems and disillusioned independents to his candidacy."
But that's not what Haley is doing, the report said.
It found, "Biden and the Democrats, after all, would like nothing more than to spin a narrative that there’s a sizeable cohort of Never Trump GOP voters out there yearning for a return to the moderate social views and hawkish neocon foreign policy of the Republican Party before Trump. But there isn’t. Just take New Hampshire as an example. If you take away Democrat crossover voters and independents, her support among actual Republicans is too small to take her campaign seriously."
The report added, "In this context, leftist Democrat support for a GOP candidate isn’t exactly something to brag about. It’s like Confederates bragging about Native American warlords being on their side during the Civil War. They joined the Confederates because they supported slavery. Much the same could be said for courting voters who support abortion, transgenderism, endless foreign wars, and open borders. If they support your candidacy, maybe you’re on the wrong side."
