Sen. Rand Paul recently issued a stark warning about Republican primary candidate Nikki Haley, concluding that she should not serve as President of the United States. According to Paul, Haley hails from the neoconservative “McCain, Dick Cheney, Mitch McConnell wing of the party.” The Kentucky senator implied Haley is more concerned about the Ukrainian border than the ongoing domestic border crisis.
“As I watched the debates and I heard Nikki Haley’s responses on our border and on Ukraine’s border, I think she’s more concerned with Ukraine’s border than she is with our southern border,” Paul said. “And that’s a real problem.”
Paul claimed that Haley stands in the same “camp” as Sen. Mitch McConnell, Sen. Chuck Schumer, and President Biden, alleging they are all prioritizing the war effort in Ukraine over critical domestic interests. The Republican senator further criticized McConnell for “sellout” solutions on the border.
“Above all else, it’s Ukraine. Now McConnell has been sort of boxed in that he has to do something on the border. What they’re offering on the border is going to be a sellout. What they’re offering on the border is that they’ll let 5,000 migrants come across every day. And then they’ll have some rule they’ll institute after they get to 5,000. So essentially, they allow 1.8 million migrants to come in a year. And then they try to kick in some rules after the fact,” Paul said.
Paul further alleged that Haley is “one of the biggest advocates” of sending funding to Ukraine. The senator suggests that Haley’s propensity toward foreign aid extends far beyond the war in Ukraine. “That’s not just Ukraine, you know, her work at the U.N. She’s written books about how she thinks it’s a big priority to send foreign aid to countries outside of the United States. And the problem is, is we’re running a deficit of over a trillion dollars a year. So in order to send money overseas, we actually just print it up, you know, we’ve got to borrow it from China to send it to Ukraine. It’s just not Ukraine. It’s all over Africa. It’s all over the Middle East. We even still send money to the Palestinians, believe it or not. And so all of this is just, I think, insane,” he continued.
Paul didn’t hold back, emphasizing that Haley is an establishment politician through and through. “But people need to know that she’s from the wing of the party — not the liberty wing,” Paul claimed. “She’s from the McCain, Dick Cheney, Mitch McConnell wing of the party, that you know, all of the establishment is gaga over Nikki Haley,” he said.
While Sen. Paul claimed he wasn’t prepared to endorse a specific candidate at this time, he felt obligated to give his opinion that Haley was not a suitable choice for the Republican party. “I decided I wasn’t ready to endorse a candidate. But at this point, I sure didn’t want to just sit quietly on the sidelines and not let people know how bad a candidate I think Nikki Haley is,” he said.
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