Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley ratcheted up the rhetoric against her top rival, former President Donald Trump, by questioning his mental fitness on Saturday.
The swipe took place in the run-up to the New Hampshire primary this week after Trump recently mixed up Haley’s name with former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) when talking about security during the U.S. Capitol breach on January 6, 2021.
“Last night, Trump is at a rally and he’s going on and on mentioning me multiple times as to why I didn’t take security during the Capitol riots. Why I didn’t handle January 6 better. I wasn’t even in D.C. on January 6. I wasn’t in office then,” Haley told a crowd in New Hampshire.
“They’re saying he got confused. That he was talking about something else. That he was talking about Nancy Pelosi. He mentioned me multiple times in that scenario,” Haley
