The difficulty of candidates’ age, lengthy a function of the presidential marketing campaign, took on heightened significance when the particular counsel investigating Biden’s dealing with of categorized paperwork
issued his report on Thursday on the matter. Whereas discovering no felony fees have been warranted, the report offered a dangerous portrait of Biden’s psychological acuity.
Horry County, the location of Saturday’s Trump rally, is a conservative stronghold the place Trump received almost half the vote in a still-crowded 2016 presidential main — and a number of the least fertile floor for Haley on this month’s contest. Her marketing campaign’s choice to ship a roving billboard truck into the guts of MAGA nation underscores Haley’s brash method of rebuking Trump now that the race is a head-to-head match — and as she stays far behind.
Her latest offensive towards Trump, after months of providing solely tepid criticism of the front-runner, comes as the previous South Carolina governor trails Trump by an enormous margin in her house state. Trump racked up prime Republican endorsements early within the state and has saved a agency grip on the conservative base in South Carolina.
Haley and her prime marketing campaign aides have mentioned she plans to remain within the main race for the lengthy haul — no matter her South Carolina efficiency — and that she has no motive to bow out earlier than voters in Tremendous Tuesday states forged ballots in early March.
Since asserting her bid a 12 months in the past, Haley has known as for a brand new, youthful chief for the get together and nation. However she has ramped up her criticisms of Trump these days, together with throughout a section on “Saturday Night time Dwell” final weekend.
Trump has likewise gone after Haley, posting on Fact Social on Friday a 2012 video of Haley at a Mitt Romney rally mistakenly praising then-President Barack Obama, as an alternative of Romney, and criticizing her for taking marketing campaign cash from Democratic donors.
“Donald could also be affected by reminiscence points,” Haley, who’s 52, posted in response, asking whether or not Trump forgot that he had donated to Democratic politicians.
Haley on Saturday is embarking on a bus tour to stops in rural South Carolina.
