Nikki Haley Grilled On Fox News Over Slavery Blunder
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The Republican presidential candidate claimed: “The media is the only one that has talked about this issue” ― prompting pushback.
Nikki Haley was pressed on Fox News Wednesday to explain her recent failure to mention slavery when asked to state the cause of the Civil War.
“I want to visit this because it’s going to continue to come up. And the reason that it has is maybe you haven’t put it to bed yet,” host Harris Faulkner said to the Republican presidential hopeful.
The Fox News host pointed to criticism from Black conservatives and asked Haley, “What have you learned?”
Haley claimed, “What I should have said immediately was that the Civil War was about slavery. But I just assumed that that was a given.”
She brought up the fact that, when she was governor of South Carolina, she authorized the removal of the Confederate flag from statehouse grounds in 2015 after a racist mass shooting that killed nine Black churchgoers in Charleston. (She had been reluctant to address the issue for years prior, however, and had previously defended the flag).
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