Biden Quotes Haley – GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley has been trying to make the case that President Biden, 80, and Donald J. Trump, 77, are too old, as their cognitive abilities are on the downswing, to win this year’s election and spend another four years in the White House. But as Trump continues to lead Haley by some 55 points in the polls (see center column news aggregate) the former UN ambassador and South Carolina governor is going after the former president’s cognitive abilities, or lack thereof, including his statement that Haley was in charge of Capitol security on January 6, 2021.

“We offered them 10,000 people” to fend off the insurrectionists, Trump told a rally in New Hampshire, but “Nikki Haley, Nikki Haley, Nikki Haley … Nikki Haley is in charge” of security at the Capitol, and she turned his administration down, he said. Not only has he confused Nikki Haley with former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), he has claimed to have defeated Barack Obama (it was Hilary Clinton) in his first presidential race. 

As MSNBC’s Morning Joe noted, Biden’s re-election campaign picked up the easy hit on Trump, posting on X (formerly Twitter); “I don’t agree with Nikki Haley on everything, but we agree on this much: She is not Nancy Pelosi.”

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