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President Joe Biden’s 2024 re-election campaign railed against Republican presidential candidate and “MAGA extremist” Nikki Haley on Friday.
After Haley was asked at the Thanksgiving Family Forum on Friday whether she would “sign a Heartbeat Bill” — which would outlaw abortion as early as six weeks — if she were still the governor of South Carolina, Haley replied, “Yes.”
Haley’s comments caught the attention of the Biden campaign, which quickly released a statement condemning Haley, who has frequently been portrayed as one of the more moderate 2024 Republican presidential candidates.
In a statement, Biden-Harris 2024 rapid response director Ammar Moussa wrote, “Nikki Haley is no moderate – she’s an anti-abortion MAGA extremist who wants to rip away women’s freedoms just like she did when she was South Carolina governor. Now Haley is promising to bring that same fear, anxiety, and dread she forced on South Carolina women to every woman in the country.”
Moussa continued, “Whether it’s Donald Trump, Nikki Haley, or any other
According to RealClearPolitics’ Republican primary polling average, Haley is currently the third most popular Republican candidate at 9.5%, behind only Florida Governor Ron DeSantis at 14.3% and former President Donald Trump, the overwhelming frontrunner, at 59.7%.