Ingraham Clashes with House Republican Backing Haley: ‘Ralph, First of All…’
Fox News host Laura Ingraham clashed with Rep. Ralph Norman (R-SC) on The Ingraham Angle, Tuesday during a debate over Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley.
The segment got off to a rocky start after Norman opened by criticizing Ingraham’s remarks about Haley being part of “the establishment.”
Norman told Ingraham, “I really take issue, and I love your show, but I heard your monologue– for you to say that she’s part of the establishment, for you to say that she’s Never Trumper, and if she’s not part of the solution, [she’s] part of the problem, that’s not for the media to say, Laura. Let the voters decide.”
Ingraham responded:
Ralph, first of all, you know, I appreciate you, and back at you, I have great respect for you. This is nothing personal about Nikki Haley, but in pretty much every national survey, way beyond New Hampshire, a state that I know very well because I lived there, years ago, but I lived there– If you can’t win big in New Hampshire when you’re Nikki Haley with all the billionaires’ money you’ve got and all the money you’re pouring in, if you can’t win in that state, then where are you going to win?
She continued, “Look, the number are what the numbers are. I mean, you guys can get mad, I get it. It’s not fun to lose, it’s not fun to put in all this time and money, I get it, but explain where she’s going to win big if she doesn’t win big in New Hampshire?”
Norman replied that skepticism from the media over Haley’s probability of becoming the Republican nominee merely fires her up, before asking why Trump would select Haley as his ambassador to the United Nations if she was a “globalist” and everything else that Trump supporters say about her.
Ingraham replied, “He endorsed a lot of people that ended up, you know, obviously highly critical of him and they parted ways. Again, nothing personal, but just because he endorsed her– people endorse people all the time and then they part ways, sometimes they get back together, but that doesn’t– I mean, you’ve been around this game a long time. You know how it goes.”
Norman shot back, “Laura, he didn’t endorse her, he picked her. She represented the United States.”
At the end of the interview, after Norman claimed Haley would “start deporting illegal aliens the minute she’s sworn in,” Ingraham expressed skepticism that such rhetoric would win over Republican voters from Trump.
“We’ll see if the voters of New Hampshire and beyond think that Nikki Haley is stronger on the border than Donald Trump,” she concluded. “You could be very well right and I could be wrong, but I don’t think so.”
Following the interview, the New Hampshire primary was called by several news outlets against Haley.
In a speech acknowledging her defeat, Haley said, “New Hampshire is first in the nation. It is not the last in the nation. This race is far from over!”
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