Trump Steps Up Attacks On Nikki Haley As New Hampshire Looms

Fresh off a conclusive win in Iowa, Donald Trump has set his sights on New Hampshire ― and rival Nikki Haley, who’s the solely credible risk to Trump forward of the state’s Jan. 23 major.

The former President on Tuesday attacked Haley each on social media and at a rally, sharply altering his tone from the day earlier than when he’d praised her as “very smart” and “very capable.”

“Anyone listening to Nikki ‘Nimrada’ Haley’s wacked out speech last night, would think that she won the Iowa Primary,” Trump wrote in a put up on his social media platform, deliberately misspelling Haley’s given title at start, “Nimarata.”

The racist canine whistle is a transparent try and revive the declare that Haley modified her title to “Nikki” for political functions, a declare The Associated Press discovered to be false.

“Nikki is my name on my birth certificate,” Haley defined in a tweet manner again in 2018. “I married a Haley. I was born Nimarata Nikki Randhawa and married Michael Haley.”

Trump’s social media screed continued with a sequence of anti-Haley posts, together with a manipulated photograph depicting the previous governor of South Carolina as Hillary Clinton.

“[Haley] couldn’t even beat a very flawed Ron DeSanctimonious, who’s out of money, and out of hope,” Trump added. “Nikki came in a distant THIRD! She said she would never run against me.”

The assaults continued at a rally in New Hampshire on Tuesday, the place Trump criticized Haley’s efficiency as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations within the Trump administration.

“I do want to talk about Nikki,” he stated. “I worked with her for a long time. And she was OK. Not great.”

“She was not great. She’s not tough enough to deal with these people. I will tell you that she’s not tough enough.”

Haley hit again Monday after narrowly inserting third within the Iowa caucuses, concentrating on each Trump and Biden for his or her age.

“Trump and Biden are both about 80 years old. Trump and Biden put our country trillions of dollars deeper in debt, and our kids will never forgive them,” she stated. “Both lack a vision for our country’s future because both are consumed by the past — by investigations, by vendettas, by grievances. Americans deserve better.”

In a associated improvement Wednesday, each CNN and ABC News canceled debates they’d deliberate between the 2 candidates after Haley stated she wouldn’t take part if Trump didn’t additionally present up.