Nikki Haley backs Disney in legal feud with Ron DeSantis and uses a Trump insult against him
Former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley went on the attack against Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis in his fight against Disney, and many noted that she used a nickname insult coined by former President Donald Trump.
DeSantis has been in feud with the massive corporation over land used by Disney World in the state. On Wednesday, Disney filed a lawsuit against DeSantis, alleging that he and other state officials had waged a "relentless campaign to weaponize government power" against the company.
On Wednesday, Haley, who is running for president, made it clear that she backed the House of Mouse.
"Hey @Disney, my home state will happily accept your 70,000+ jobs if you want to leave Florida. We’ve got great weather, great people, and it’s always a great day in South Carolina!" Haley tweeted with a video of her appearance on Fox News about the issue.
\u201cHey @Disney, my home state will happily accept your 70,000+ jobs if you want to leave Florida. \n\nWe\u2019ve got great weather, great people, and it\u2019s always a great day in South Carolina! \n\nSC\u2019s not woke, but we\u2019re not sanctimonious about it either.\u201d— Nikki Haley (@Nikki Haley) 1682534943
"SC’s not woke, but we’re not sanctimonious about it either," she added.
Haley's jab at DeSantis was not popular among conservatives online who were firmly opposed to Disney's machinations.
"Whoever on your team thinks this is a good tweet, fire them," replied actor Matthew Marsden.
"According to @NikkiHaley , it's 'sanctimonious' for parents to fight Disney for control of their children's classrooms," said Dana Loesch.
"What an absolutely terrible, abysmal take and tone. It’s one thing to quibble with methods used in public policy, but something else to suggest a stand against Disney’s indoctrination of kids is sanctimonious. Such a disappointment," responded Kristen Waggoner, the CEO of the Alliance Defending Freedom.
"Quit pandering to be Trump's VP, you're better than that. This is pathetic," read another tweet.
Others noted that Haley used an insult used against DeSantis by Trump in her tweet.
"Nothing says 'in it to win it' like appropriating and popularizing the frontrunner’s sophomoric nickname for the most viable alternative to the frontrunner in the race," responded Noah Rothman of National Review.
Unlike Haley, DeSantis has not yet announced that he is running for president but many consider him to be Trump's best competition for the Republican nomination in 2024.
A spokesperson for DeSantis responded to the lawsuit from Disney in a statement to CNBC.
"We are unaware of any legal right that a company has to operate its own government or maintain special privileges not held by other businesses in the state," said Taryn Fenske.
"This lawsuit is yet another unfortunate example of their hope to undermine the will of the Florida voters and operate outside the bounds of the law," she added.
Here's more about the Disney-DeSantis feud:
Disney sues Florida Gov. DeSantis amid feud over self-governing privileges www.youtube.com
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Nikki Haley says she won't run for president if Trump runs again in 2024
Nikki Haley, the former South Carolina governor, told reporters that she would not run for president in 2024 if former President Donald Trump decided to run again.
"I would not run if President Trump ran, and I would talk to him about it," Haley said on Monday when asked directly at a media briefing at South Carolina State University.
"That's something that we'll have a conversation about at some point if that decision is something that has to be made. I had a great working relationship with him, I appreciated the way he let me do my job," she explained.
"I thought we did some fantastically great foreign policy things together, and look I just want to keep building on what we accomplished," Haley added.
Haley, who also served as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations under the former Trump administration, had previously criticized Trump for inciting supporters to riot Jan. 6 at the U.S. Capitol, an accusation he denies.
"We need to acknowledge he let us down," she said after the lethal riot.
"He went down a path he shouldn't have, and we shouldn't have followed him, and we shouldn't have listened to him," she added. "And we can't let that ever happen again."
Haley was asked if she had talked to the president since the Jan. 6 riot and she said that she had not. But she also said that she would support his 2024 campaign if he chose to run.
Trump has teased his audiences about the possibility that he might run again in 2024 for president. His supporters have touted polls that show a large measure of support for Trump among Republican Party members. Even one of his greatest critics Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) said that Trump would win the nomination if he ran for president in 2024.
Here's the video of Nikki Haley's comments:
Nikki Haley: I will Not Run If President Trump Ranwww.youtube.com
Nikki Haley breaks with Trump in stunning rebuke: 'We shouldn't have followed him, and we shouldn't have listened to him'
Nikki Haley, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, believes that former President Donald Trump "let us down."
Haley's remarks come as the former president's legal team prepares to present its defense of Trump during his second impeachment trial in the Senate.
What are the details?
In a Politico interview published Friday, Haley, former South Carolina governor, said that "we shouldn't have followed" Trump.
"We need to acknowledge he let us down," she said in an extensive profile. "He went down a path he shouldn't have, and we shouldn't have followed him, and we shouldn't have listened to him. And we can't let that ever happen again."
She also told the outlet that she has not spoken to Trump since the Jan. 6 riots at the U.S. Capitol, and takes issue with his remarks condemning former Vice President Mike Pence's refusal to reject the Electoral College vote.
"When I tell you I'm angry, it's an understatement," she expressed. "I am so disappointed in the fact that [despite] the loyalty and friendship he had with Mike Pence, that he would do that to him. Like, I'm disgusted by it."
The former ambassador, who many people are speculating may run for the White House in 2024, also added that Trump will never accept the results of the 2020 presidential election.
"There's nothing that you're ever going to do that's going to make him feel like he legitimately lost the election," she explained. "He's got a big bully pulpit. He should be responsible with it."
Haley also warned that many people still love the former president and will not stop supporting him just because he is out of office.
"I know how much people love Donald Trump," she admitted. "I know it. I feel it. Whether it's an RNC room or social media or talking to donors, I can tell you that the love they have for him is still very strong. That's not going to just fall to the wayside. Nor do I think the Republican Party is going to go back to the way it was before Donald Trump. I don't think it should."
Haley added that people, instead, should "take the good that he built, leave the bad that he did, and get back to a place where we can be a good, valuable, effective party."
"[I]t's bigger than the party," she insisted. "I hope our country can come together and figure out how we pull this back."
Anything else?
Referring to Haley's possible 2024 ambitions, Politico's Tim Alberta wrote, "Since last fall, I've spent nearly six hours talking with Haley on-the-record. I've also spoken with nearly 70 people who know her: friends, associates, donors, staffers, former colleagues. From those conversations, two things are clear. First, Nikki Haley is going to run for president in 2024. Second, she doesn't know which Nikki Haley will be on the ballot."
Haley also said that she didn't believe Trump had a chance of winning in a 2024 election scenario.
"I don't think he can," she admitted. "He's fallen so far."
"I think his business is suffering at this point," she added. "I think he's lost any sort of political viability he was going to have. I think he's lost his social media, which meant the world to him. I mean, I think he's lost the things that really could have kept him moving."
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