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Nikki Haley skewered by former South Carolina ally Nancy Mace who calls her 'China's favorite governor' and says GOP presidential hopeful would be 'manufacturing spy balloons right here in our state' if she had her way
Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley was skewered by her former ally, South Carolina Rep. Nancy Mace, at a 'Team Trump' event Friday in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina.
Haley had helped Mace get through her 2022 Republican primary challenge against a Trump-backed candidate.
But then Mace pulled an about-face and endorsed former President Donald Trump over Haley, the former governor of South Carolina, on the eve of the New Hampshire primary.
On Friday the South Carolina congresswoman dubbed Haley 'China's favorite governor,' ahead of the important February 24 GOP primary in the Palmetto State, where Haley is still trailing Trump by 26 points.
'And in fact, if she had her way, South Carolina would be manufacturing spy balloons right here in our state,' Mace added.
On the campaign trail, Haley touts that it's time for there to be an accountant in the White House, her former profession before entering state government.
Mace used that line against her on Friday.
'Gov. Haley started out as an accountant. She went from doing people's taxes to raising people's taxes,' Mace said.
'The last time a tax-hiking presidential candidate walked around South Carolina in high heels it was Hillary Clinton - not sure how that turned out very well at all,' Mace also offered.
Mace was elected to Congress in 2020 after flipping back what had been a long-held GOP seat from Democratic Rep. Joe Cunningham. Cunningham was elected during the blue wave in 2018, a clap-back against Trump and his policies.
Mace got on Trump's bad side after she voted to certify President Joe Biden's 2020 election win and criticized him in the aftermath of the January 6 Capitol attack, however she did not vote to impeach him.
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