Nikki Haley: Bernie Sanders is ‘this is why’ IQ tests are needed

MARION, Iowa. Presidential candidate Nikki Haley defended her intelligence test proposal here Tuesday in startlingly personal terms.

Haley said one of the proposal’s critics, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), “is exactly why we need it.”

Sanders, 81, told CBS’s Late Show’s Stephen Colbert on Monday that Haley’s plan to mandate mental acuity testing of politicians over 75 was “nothing more than old-fashioned ageism” and “unacceptable.”

Hailey, in response to a last question from an audience member at a campaign event, said: “Bernie Sanders is crazy because I asked for this. That’s why we need him.”

The crowd laughed, but then Haley unpromptedly expanded her criticism to include two other veteran Democratic lawmakers, Senator Dianne Feinstein (CA) and Rep. Maxine Waters (CA).

“Whoopi Goldberg went crazy because of this – and you know what she did? She celebrated Dianne Feinstein and Maxine Waters. That’s why we need it,” Hailey said.

Feinstein, 89 and whose cognitive abilities have been widely questioned, recently announced she would retire at the end of her current term, sparking a Democratic race to succeed her.

Haley’s comments seem sure to revitalize the controversy and keep it in the news, as she did during her impressive campaign rollout.

Here she spent most of her 25-minute speech, suggesting she would pursue conservative policies on issues such as crime, education and immigration.

She mostly praised Donald Trump, but — in response to the same last question — she made clear her differences with the former president.

The question from the viewer, who identified himself as “Bob”, was whether she would consider Trump as her running mate in 2024.

So far, Trump and Haley are the only two main candidates in the race.

Hailey asked in obvious surprise, “How well do you think things would go if I called President Trump? [and ] said, “Do you want to be my vice president?”

“President Trump is my friend. I called him before I did it. We had a good conversation,” said Hailey.

But, she continued, “He was the right president at the right time. He broke things that needed to be broken and worked to fix them. The reason I’m running is because we have to move forward. We must move forward. We cannot continue to address these issues in the past and I think we need a younger generation of leaders.”

Up to this point, Haley has mostly expressed her contrast with Trump in implicit rather than direct terms.

For example, she recalled a more peaceful time in American life when she told the audience to nod, “Remember, there was no chaos. You didn’t hold your breath as you turned on the news.

However, if Hailey is tossed as “moderate,” that seems to be a label she doesn’t want – perhaps because it’s likely a ticket to defeat in today’s Republican Party.

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She has spoken out harshly against President Biden, calling the recent Chinese spy balloon episode a “national disgrace.” and leaving Afghanistan is a “fiasco”.

She nodded slightly in appreciation of Biden’s current trip to Poland and Ukraine, but asked rhetorically, “Shouldn’t he be with those people in Ohio?”

She alluded to the recent East Palestine train derailment, after which residents complained of a plethora of health symptoms and the Biden administration faced criticism for not sending more senior officials to visit sooner.

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