Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley participates in fourth Republican Presidential Main Debate on on December 6, 2023 in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
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Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley participates in fourth Republican Presidential Main Debate on on December 6, 2023 in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
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As Nikki Haley surges in Republican polls, former President Donald Trump has turned to his social media outlet the place he’s selling a ”birther” conspiracy principle in opposition to the previous South Carolina governor.
Trump posted an article on his Reality Social account from a proper wing outlet that claims Haley is ineligible to be president as a result of her mother and father weren’t U.S. residents when she was born.
Whereas her mother and father turned residents after her start, Haley was born in South Carolina. Below the 14th Modification of the U.S. Structure, being born in the US makes her a natural-born citizen. She is due to this fact eligible to turn into president.
The Trump marketing campaign has lengthy stated that he would goal whoever was most threatening him within the Republican primaries. Haley has emerged as his prime rival in latest weeks. A brand new College of New Hampshire/CNN ballot reveals Haley trailing Trump within the Granite State by simply single digits.
This isn’t the primary time, Trump has raised birther claims. For 5 years, Trump routinely questioned former President Barack Obama’s birthplace – a lie that many noticed as a racist canine whistle.
The Haley marketing campaign didn’t reply to requests for remark.
Famously, Trump additionally has a mother or father born outdoors of the U.S. His mom, Mary, is from Scotland.
7 presidents, together with TRUMP, have had not less than 1 mother or father born outdoors US & 1 had each:
– Trump (mom, Scotland)
– Obama (father, Kenya)
– Hoover (mom, Canada)
– Wilson (mom, England)
– Arthur (father, Eire)
– Buchanan (father, Eire)
– Jackson (BOTH, Eire) https://t.co/n38WvfAaX9— Domenico Montanaro (@DomenicoNPR) January 10, 2024
The birther conspiracy about Haley has been selecting up consideration during the last a number of weeks amongst far proper influencers, however Trump’s attain has amplified it into the mainstream, stated Welton Chang, CEO of Pyrra, a startup that tracks smaller social media platforms.
”Coming from him, there’s extra credibility added to the message, even when it is not an specific endorsement,” Chang defined. ”Having that many followers having that a lot affect in these networks, he is centrally linked.