The GOP candidate had said last week that states could secede if they felt the need to do so.

The GOP candidate had said last week that states could secede if they felt the need to do so.

Nikki Haley, fresh off her Civil War history refresher on this week’s Saturday Night Live, appeared to remember what the Constitution allowed when it comes to state secession: nothing.

Haley again walked back her comments saying states could choose if they wanted to secede from the U.S., telling CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday that she didn’t believe the Constitution afforded them that right. It came days after she told radio host Charlamagne tha God that states like Texas could “make the decisions that their people want to make.”

“According to the Constitution, they can’t,” Haley told CNN. “What I think they have the right to do is have the power to protect themselves and do all that. Texas has talked about that for a long time. The Constitution doesn’t allow for that.”

The GOP presidential candidate then tried to pivot to why Texas would consider such an option, citing Gov. Greg Abbott’s frustration with the Biden administration’s handling of the Southern border and the state’s desire to protect itself.

  • corsicanguppy
    3·
    11 months ago

    Now [I don’t know] [what the fuck] she actually said on that podcast

    Here’s a thought.

    because the reporter didn’t press her on it or quote her,

    Not a requirement when the interviewer knows of it and the audience should too.

    [but] if she did contradict herself then it’s the reporter [who] fumbled

    The reporter doesn’t make her say one thing one day and another thing the next (with no explanation for the volte-turn). She’s done that all her own, but for someone to point out the obvious and land her in the hot seat of her own waffling creation.

    Flip-flopping used to be a death knell for a campaign: John Kerry, Julia Jilliard, Gordon Brown, and some Toole from Canada, all lost because they couldn’t be consistent.

    While she is the least-bad option for the degenerates she’d lead, this kind of stupidity could end her career at the helm like it almost did George HW ‘no new taxes’ Bush.

    • wick@lemm.ee
      11·
      11 months ago

      The audience shouldn’t be expected to know jack shit. That’s the most autist take imaginable, to expect all people to know all relevant things before it’s even known to be relevant.

      You still haven’t shown me where she “flailed” in this interview btw, just a bunch of whiny bitching about grammar and past elections.