Older voters balk at Nikki Haley's competency test
It’s one of her hallmark proposals since launching her campaign. It’s also not going over universally well with a key constituency.
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It’s one of her hallmark proposals since launching her campaign. It’s also not going over universally well with a key constituency.
>> you go person, woman, man, camera, tv. they say, that's amazing. how did you do that? i do that because i have a good memory, because i'm cognitively there. >> backing up here, but i think democrats would be all in the trump wanted to agree to a mental competency test if he becomes the nominee. look, i don't think -- i think what nikki haley is doing here, she's showing she's not afraid to make age an issue. i don't know that that's going to be a big issue. she's showing she's not afraid to take him on, because it's pretty clear she's referring to both trump and biden here. >> it's been a p...
This is a very tough republican party for anyone who is not trump or selling trumpism. and she is like one of these campaigns where she is like a mitt romney. someone who is a charming republican candidate of the early 2000s when they used to run people who pretended to believe things. i'm just not convinced that the republican party of now, which delights in targeting marginalized groups, will embrace this particular candidate. >> well, we read, david jolly believe in a law and he was very successful at it. but david, for you, you had seven for bernie sanders responding to haley's push to dem...
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders took aim at 2024 presidential candidate Nikki Haley's proposed mental competency test for politicians 75 and older.
The mental competency test to start after 75 because donald trump is 76. if she was aiming joe biden she would've put it a little higher. i thought that was pretty interesting. this is very similar to sarah huckabee sanders response. i am a new generation. that seems to be the way that challenges trump for the nomination in terms of nikki haley not sarah huckabee sanders will frame their challenge. it's about age, new generation, et cetera. >> the first interview with sean hannity. he asked her twice to define any policy differences she had with the former president. she ducked the first time....