There was a moment in which people thought — and many liberals feared — that Nikki Haley, former South Carolina governor and former United States ambassador to the United Nations, would be the post-Donald Trump face of the Republican Party as a political candidate. Also, she would solve, or at least challenge, two of the issues that continue to dog Republicans: racism and misogyny. In an interview for Glenn Beck’s podcast, Haley said:“Here is this guy that comes out with his manifesto, holding the Confederate flag and had just hijacked everything that people thought of. We don’t have hateful people in South Carolina. There’s always the small minority that’s always going to be there, but people saw it as service and sacrifice and heritage.

Source: New York Times December 09, 2019 00:56 UTC