Jake Tapper Amused At Where Nikki Haley Points Finger Over GOP Speaker Fight: ‘You Can’t Blame This On Biden!’
CNN anchor Jake Tapper pressed former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley over the chaos ensuing from the GOP inability to unite around a candidate for House Speaker.
Two weeks ago, Kevin McCarthy was stripped of his leadership after Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) along with seven other Republicans joined sides with House Democrats to vacate him. In the aftermath, Republicans have struggled to completely unite their slim majority around one candidate.
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) is the latest GOP lawmaker to receive a majority vote from his caucus for the speakership, but his ability to fully unite his Republican colleagues to gain the necessary votes to be speaker is in question.
Tapper confronted Haley and pushed back after the GOP presidential hopeful tried to shift the blame towards President Joe Biden.
TAPPER: The House still doesn’t have a speaker for the first time in American history. This is nearly two weeks after Kevin McCarthy was stripped of his leadership. They still can’t even pass a resolution condemning the Hamas attacks. It’s starting to look like there is not one House Republican who can get 217 votes. Republican Congressman Austin Scott said the chaos, quote, makes us look like a bunch of idiots, unquote. Is he right?
HALEY: Well, I’ll tell you what’s right is under the Biden administration, we’ve seen chaos within-
TAPPER: You can’t blame this on Biden. You can’t blame this on Biden.
HALEY: No, you. Well, you have to let me finish. We have seen chaos with inflation. We’ve seen chaos with the lack of transparency in education. We’ve seen chaos on the border. We’ve seen chaos with crime on the streets. And now we’re seeing chaos around the world. What I’m saying is you can’t fix Democrat chaos with Republican chaos. They need to get it together. They need to get in a room and figure out who this is going to be and come out unified. That’s what Republicans need to do. This is not a good look. This is not good for our country. We saw what happened to Israel when they were distracted. America looks so distracted right now. When America is distracted, the world is less safe. We can’t sit there and act like this is September 10th. We better get it together and remember what it felt like September 12th, because we’ve got a lot of threats around us and a lot of chaos around us. And we need some strength. We need some stability. And again, I’ll say we need a new generational leader to right this ship.
Watch the full segment above via CNN.
