DeSantis Goes Nuclear on Nikki Haley Ahead of High-Stakes Debate: ‘Not a Conservative,’ No ‘Achievements’

Florida Governor and Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis went nuclear on rival Nikki Haley during a recent Newsmax appearance, asserting that she “clearly is not a conservative” and produced “no major achievements” during her tenure as the governor of South Carolina.

In recent months, Haley has ascended into the second tier of GOP candidates behind former President Donald Trump and alongside DeSantis, even as DeSantis’s numbers have declined. But the Florida Governor still believes he will prevail because voters will ultimately back “a fighter who represents their conservative principles, and that actually is going to be able to win on all these issues.”

“I’m the only guy running that can say that,” he argued before tearing into Haley:

I think what Haley has done is she’s gotten a lot of support from corporate media, and she’s gotten a lot of support now from from Wall Street interests. But that typically is not how it resonates in Iowa, and what I would just say is she clearly is not a conservative. I think if you look at her record as South Carolina governor, people can’t even identify any major achievements that she had. She actually killed a bill to protect girls and women in bathrooms and locker rooms, which we know has been a big issue. I signed similar, I signed legislation protecting girls and women athletes. She actually attacked me for standing up against Disney when we had the issue with the sexualization of the elementary school curriculum.

I’m the father of a first grader, a kindergartner, and  preschooler; I want the kids learning the basics. You should not be telling a kindergartner that they can change their gender, yet she sided with Disney on that. Now she’s bragging that she’s been meeting with people like the head of BlackRock, which is the ESG Mecca, as well as the head of JP Morgan, who was a big Hillary Clinton donor. And there’s actually an ad being run here in Iowa that I saw that shows Nikki talking about in her own words, how her inspiration to get into politics was not Ronald Reagan, not Margaret Thatcher, but Hillary Rodham Clinton.

DeSantis and Haley will take the debate stage together on Wednesday for the final scheduled debate before the January 15 Iowa Caucus.

Watch above via Newsmax.