Takeaways from CNN's town hall with Nikki Haley
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Source: cnn
Updated 10:18 PM EDT, Sun June 4, 2023
Nikki Haley, the former South Carolina governor and 2024 Republican presidential contender, sharply criticized the party’s top-polling candidates in a CNN town hall in Iowa on Sunday.
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Haley explains federal role on abortion
Haley said she believes there is a “federal role” in restricting abortion rights. But she wouldn’t directly answer questions about at what point in pregnancies she would seek to outlaw abortion.
Instead, Haley said she would seek a consensus that could clear the House and the Senate’s 60-vote threshold to end a filibuster.
She said she believes such a consensus measure would include banning late-term abortions, encouraging adoptions, making contraceptives more widely available and making clear that women who have abortions would not be jailed.
“Can’t we start there? Because what the politicos and what the media have done is they’ve made you demonize the situation when it’s so personal that we have to humanize the situation,” Haley said. “Our goal should always be, how do we save as many babies as we can, and support as many mothers as we do it.”
She said she is “unapologetically pro-life” because her husband was adopted and she “had trouble having both of my children.”
But, Haley added, “I don’t judge anyone for being pro-choice any more than I want them to judge me for being pro-life.” ........................
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/04/politics/nikki-haley-cnn-town-hall-takeaways/index.html
Jamie Harrison makes a great comment. At this point--Nikki Haley does not have a chance at getting the nomination.
But her stance on abortion is important.
Folks who watched that Town Hall now know that Nikki Haley is just as extreme & disastrous as the other MAGA extremists running in the GOP primary.
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This is a pretty pro-choice-y answer on abortion Nikki Haley has laid out. Ostensibly she is re-arguing for Roe. She flat out made the case for protecting women having abortions and not being punished for it. She said birth control should be accessible. This is NOT GOP play book.
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Nikki Haley on CNN refuses to say if she'd sign a 6 week abortion ban
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Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley is not discussing, she is disgusting. She is ranting — fueled by transphobia. And Jake Tapper is standing idly by, failing to challenge Haley’s insinuation that one third of all teenage girls contemplated suicide last year because of the presence of trans athletes in their locker rooms.
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