Dana Perino came under fire after interjecting during the debate, seemingly going to bat for former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley.
Fox News personality Dana Perino — who served as one of three co-moderators during the second Republican primary debate at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California, Wednesday — came under fire after interjecting during the debate, seemingly going to bat for former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley by thanking her husband for his military service — a possible retort to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.
“During the presidential debates in the year 2000, neither Al Gore nor George W. Bush was asked about al-Qaeda. Yet, just one year later, al-Qaeda’s attack on September 11 claimed nearly 3,000 lives,” she said, asking South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott what has prepared him to protect the nation, given that he has no executive branch experience.
However, after a brief squabble with Haley on another topic, DeSantis pivoted back to Perino’s original question directed to Scott and Pence, briefly detailing his military service: I also just want to come back on what Dana asked last segment about 9/11. Because I was just at the 9/11 Memorial with the families…And it affected my life because I ended up joining the military as a result of that. I’ve been a blue-collar kid…I ended up getting through Yale and Harvard Law School and somehow came out more conservative than when I went in. And that is not easy to do; [I] had a lot of opportunities to make money.
“But I wanted to serve, and I’ll never forget coming back on the plane from Iraq, landing in Coronado, California, North Island, and feeling that breeze off the Pacific Ocean,” he said, explaining how lucky he felt to have been born an American.
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