Tim Miller, a spokesman for the Republican National Committee, on Tuesday suggested the video of Nikki Haley announcing she will run for president in 2024 as an indication of the particular hurdles she will face on the campaign trail.
Haley was “viewed skeptically by MAGA voters” because of her flip-flopping on Donald Trump, Miller noted on MSNBC’s “Deadline: White House.”
And the former South Carolina governor and US ambassador to the United Nations “doesn’t know what his own message is,” added Miller, who shared this video as proof:
Haley’s first sentence was “about how she grew up in this town in South Carolina that was divided by railroad tracks that divided the town by Black and white, divided the town by race,” Miller said.
“And five seconds later in the video, he attacks the 1619 Project and the George Floyd protests and people who say racism is a structural problem,” he said.
“How can the video be about how you grew up in a structurally racist town and also make fun of people who say racism is a structural problem?” Miller asked.
“He tried to have both sides. He tried to be a MAGA nationalist as well as a uniter,” he said. “And anyone who tries to do both is going to be attacked in the middle of the road with no one to support them and I think that’s where they are right now.”