Nikki Haley on Kamala Harris' Liberalism

So, so much has happened since we last sat down and talked. You dropped out of the race. You endorsed Donald Trump. You spoke at the Republican National Convention. Your father sadly passed away. Your husband, Michael, who's a major in the South Carolina National Guard, returned from a year abroad. And I want to get to all of that, but first I have to start with the news from Sunday of President Biden dropping out of the presidential race. You have always been skeptical that he could last for another four years in office. Were you surprised? I wasn't surprised and I didn't take happiness in it. You know, I mean, I think through the whole campaign, you know, I fought for mental competency tests. I wasn't doing it to be disrespectful. I wasn't doing it to be mean. I was doing it because I think it's not just Joe Biden. There is an issue that we have in D.C. where people will go into office and they won't let go. And then their staffers and their family keep propping them up. And it's a problem for the American people. And so I never thought he would make it to the election. I always said a vote for Joe Biden is a vote for Kamala Harris. And I think that's what's playing out. You also said in addition to a vote for Joe Biden, well, you said a vote for Joe Biden is a vote for Kamala Harris. You also have said if we nominate Donald Trump, I guarantee you we're going to have President Kamala Harris. And you've said whichever party that retires its 80 year old candidate first is going to be the one that wins the election. Do you still feel that way? I think that, you know, look, the Democrats are very smart to put in a younger candidate. I think that that's what America has craved. But I think what you look at is they put in the weakest candidate they could put in. You look at the fact that Kamala, I mean, she had one job that was to deal with illegal immigration and the border. She didn't do it. She was the most progressive senator that we had next to Bernie Sanders. You can see it playing out, whether it's the fact that she didn't show up at Bibi's speech yesterday, whether it's the fact that she pushed for all this government spending, whether it's the fact that when she was in California, the most liberal state, there was no tax she didn't propose. It was nothing that she didn't want to see. All of her the things she's doing from not wanting fracking to not wanting oil drilling, all of these things are incredibly liberal. And she is much more progressive than Joe Biden ever was. So the fact that they put in Kamala Harris, kudos for putting in someone younger. The fact that you put in one of the most liberal politicians you probably could have put in, it's going to be an issue. One of the things that Republican congressional leaders have had to tell their members is to not attack her on the basis of her gender or her race, to go after her on policy issues, as you just did. We've heard members of Congress call her DEI hire, suggesting that, you know, she's an affirmative action pick. How do you respond to that? It's not helpful. Look, I mean, we're talking about a liberal senator who literally has not accomplished very much. And what she was given, she didn't do much with. You don't need to talk about what she looks like or what gender she is to talk about that. The American people are smarter than that. Talk about the fact that, you know, she doesn't believe in fracking. Tell that to the voters in Pennsylvania. Talk about the fact that she doesn't want to talk about paying down debt. She wants to increase taxes. Tell that to the American people. Talk about the fact that consumer prices have gone up 19.5 percent since Joe and Kamala were in office. Talk about the fact that she's always sided with the Palestinian protest instead of our friend Israel. There are so many issues we can talk about when it comes to Kamala Harris, that it doesn't matter what she looks like. It matters what she said, what she's fought for, and the lack of results that she's had because of it.