Former Donald Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway mentioned Tuesday that Nikki Haley “can’t develop into an election denier,” prompting cries of “hypocrisy” and “gaslighting” from social media critics. (Watch the video beneath.)
Haley vowed to press on after her closer-than-expected loss to Trump within the New Hampshire Republican main for president. “This race is much from over,” Haley mentioned whereas setting her sights on the first in South Carolina, the place she served as governor.
“It is a democracy, a constitutional republic,” Conway mentioned throughout Fox Information’ election protection. “We should respect the need of the folks. And Nikki Haley can’t develop into an election denier. She’s been rejected. She will be able to say tonight she got here in second, or you may say she got here in final.”
Conway’s loyalty to a person who grew to become often called maybe the worst election denier of all ― and is going through prison indictments for it ― caught within the craw of commenters on X.
The opinions of Conway’s evaluation rolled in: “The irony.” “The peak of hypocrisy.” “Extra MAGA gaslighting.”
Conway, who left the Trump White Home earlier than the 2020 election, acknowledged Trump’s defeat in a 2022 interview and in her book, claiming she was maybe the primary individual in his inside circle to inform the previous president he “got here up quick” in opposition to Joe Biden. Trump denies it.
Try a number of the tweets reacting to Conway’s election-denier comment right here:
