When she gave a speech declaring her 2024 presidential candidacy, former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley began to carve out her lane by focusing on a difference between her and the two most recent Presidents: age
hen she gave a speech declaring her 2024 presidential candidacy, raven-haired former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley began to carve out her lane by focusing on a salient difference between her and the two most recent Presidents: age.
“In the America I see, the permanent politician will finally retire,” she said. “We’ll have term limits for Congress and mandatory mental competency tests for politicians over 75 years old,” naming a cutoff age just below that of the only other major Republican in the race—Haley’s generational change argument isn’t just aimed at Trump. At 80, President Joe Biden is the oldest President in American history.
Haley’s supporters have doubled down on her generational change message. South Carolina Republican Party Katon Dawson said at Haley’s announcement, “New faces, we’re going new places.” Rep. Ralph Norman, the first South Carolina congressman to endorse Haley, told, “In 2016, President Trump was exactly who the Republican Party needed at the time… However, the Republican Party has entered a season of change.
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