President Joe Biden welcomed former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley’s phrases with open arms after she went after fellow Republicans’ voting information on the first GOP presidential debate on Wednesday.
Haley, one of many eight candidates to take part within the debate in Milwaukee, jumped on a few of her GOP rivals ― Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) and former Vice President Mike Pence ― for voting “to raise the debt” whereas additionally taking a shot at former President Donald Trump, who named her U.S. ambassador to the United Nations throughout his time period in workplace. Trump had skipped the controversy.
“And Donald Trump added $8 trillion to our debt, and our kids are never going to forgive us for this,” declared Haley in an apparent nod to the national debt increasing by about $7.8 trillion through the Trump administration.
“What she said,” wrote Biden, in a caption alongside a clip of her remarks.
Biden additionally made different not-so-subtle references to the controversy on Wednesday, taking goal at biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, who stated the “climate change agenda is a hoax,” which was met by a sea of boos from the viewers.
“Climate change is real, by the way,” Biden later wrote on X (previously Twitter).
Haley, amid the candidates’ dialogue of local weather change, declared that local weather change is “real,” as nicely.
“We do care about clean air, clean water ― we want to see that taken care of, but there is a right way to do it,” she acknowledged on the controversy stage.
“The right way is first of all, yes, is climate change real? Yes, it is. But if you want to go and really change the environment, we need to start telling China and India that they have to lower their emissions.”
