Ramaswamy Asks Haley If She Wants His 3-Year-Old to Show Her Israel and the U.S. on a Map

Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy asked rival Nikki Haley whether she would like his three-year-old son to show her Israel and the United States on a map after Haley claimed Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack in Israel was also “an attack on America.”

During NewsNation’s Republican primary debate on Wednesday, co-moderator Eliana Johnson asked:

Mr. Ramaswamy, you have said it was irresponsible for Ambassador Haley to call Hamas’ terrorist rampage an attack on America and for her to, quote, “rabidly shout finish them.” The Hamas terror attack left dozens of Americans dead and was the deadliest attack on Jews since the Holocaust. Why wouldn’t it be a good thing to finish Hamas?

Ramaswamy replied, “Finish them was purposefully vague in a discussion that included Iran, which is what I objected to, and I think as U.S. president you have to be responsible. What happened to Israel was dead wrong. What Hamas did was medieval. It was subhuman, it was immoral, and we have to call that out for what it is on October 7, but to say that that was an attack on America fails a basic test.”

Turning towards Haley, Ramaswamy continued:

I mean, Nikki, if you can’t tell the difference between where Israel is and the U.S. is on a map, I can have my three-year-old son show you the difference. That is irresponsible because it has major consequences because that doesn’t leave room for what actually is an attack on America. So I believe I have the strongest pro-Israel position actually on this stage, even though it’s a little bit different than the standard GOP talking points.

Ron DeSantis protested, “But Americans were killed in that attack. Americans were killed in that attack, and so if you looked at this terrorist attack and the number of Americans, this would be one of the top ten terrorist attacks in American history.”

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