Nikki Haley Predicts Trump Will Continue Mental Decline and Slams Him for Focus on His Own ‘Hurt Feelings’

Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley predicted that former President Donald Trump would continue to decline mentally if he returned to the White House while slamming Trump and President Joe Biden for their baggage one day before the New Hampshire primary.

Haley, the lone remaining challenger to Trump, joined conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt for an interview on Monday.

During their conversation, Hewitt noted that Haley has attacked Trump over his mental fitness in recent days, and in particular over Trump’s confusion of her with Nancy Pelosi at a recent rally.

“Are you arguing that the former president is mentally incompetent?” asked Hewitt.

“No, I’m not saying that. What I’m saying is that this is just common sense. If you have two men running for president that are in their 80s, you are going to get what you get when you’ve got two men running in their 80s,” replied Haley. “Look at Joe Biden two years ago. He is very much diminished from when he started because this job is hard. There’s a lot of pressure, there’s a lot of late nights, you’ve got to make some tough decisions, and it wears on you. And so, you know, this is tough if you’re 50 years old. It’s even tougher if you’re 80 years old because you can’t do as much as you could when you were younger. That’s a fact. Any doctor will tell you that.”

She continued:

And so what I’m saying is when he recently, I was asked about these gaffes that he had where he, for some reason, thought that I prevented security from going to the Capitol on January 6, and he said it three and four times and went on for this whole thing about how I was responsible and the fact that he got confused and didn’t acknowledge the fact that it was actually Nancy Pelosi he was supposed to be talking about than me, or the fact that he said that, you know, Biden is going to get us into World War II, which I’m assuming he meant World War III. It doesn’t mean he’s mentally incompetent. It means that when you have someone that is at that age, you are going to see that kind of decline and look at how fast it declined with Biden.

Later, after Hewitt asked if Haley if she believed Trump was “more fit” than Biden, Haley affirmed that she did, but doubled down on her contention that Trump’s baggage could be likened to Biden’s.

“He’s not, you know, mumbling his words like Biden, but he is still someone who’s going to be 80. And I think that that’s the part that you have to look at. I mean, really is America going to settle for that? But it’s more than that, Hugh, it’s not just about age,” argued Haley.

“Look at the fact that the majority of Americans disapprove of Biden and disapprove of Trump. The majority of Americans see that both of these presidents put us trillions of dollars in debt, and our kids are never going to forgive them for it. Both of these presidents have focused on talking about the investigations that are against their families, their hurt feelings, and vendettas that they want to get taken care of. We need someone with no drama, no vendetta that’s focused on the future.”