Nikki Haley, the Republican presidential hopeful, has launched a brand new offensive in opposition to her potential rivals within the 2024 race, Donald Trump from her personal occasion and Joe Biden from the Democrats. She has unveiled a sequence of political advertisements that mock their age, as reported by the New York Occasions.
The advertisements, which have the theme of ‘Grumpy Outdated Males,’ are a part of Haley’s specific technique to focus on the age issue of the 2 males who’re more likely to be the nominees of their respective events for the presidency.
The advertisements have titles akin to Stumbling Seniors, Basement Buddies and Profligate Pols, in accordance with the New York Occasions.
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Haley, who served because the governor of South Carolina and the US ambassador to the United Nations, additionally posted a picture on X, the previous Twitter, that exhibits a modified model of the film poster of the 1993 comedy Grumpy Outdated Males, starring Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau. She changed the actors’ faces with these of Biden and Trump.
“The rematch no person needs…” she captioned the picture.
‘Senior moments’: Haley
Haley’s goal is to attract consideration to the truth that Trump, 77, and Biden, 81, are the oldest candidates ever to hunt re-election to the White Home.
Haley, 52, has beforehand urged that politicians, particularly these above 75, ought to endure psychological competency assessments. She cited examples of Biden and Trump having “senior second[s]” and showing confused, akin to when Trump mistook Haley for former Home speaker Nancy Pelosi earlier this month whereas speaking concerning the 6 January 2021, riot.
“Nikki Haley is accountable for safety. We provided her 10,000 nationwide guard troopers. They turned it down.” Trump stated, referring to his purported supply of troops to guard the US Capitol throughout the assault by a few of his supporters who tried – and failed – to forestall the congressional affirmation of Biden’s win over Trump within the 2020 election.
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Haley has exploited Trump’s blunder
“Do we actually need to go into an election with two fellas who’re going to be president of their 80s?” Haley requested a crowd at a marketing campaign occasion. Haley tells her supporters in rallies and city halls that she isn’t being “disrespectful” by asking the query.
“Everyone knows 75-year-olds that may run circles round us,” Haley stated at one city corridor. “After which we all know Joe Biden.” She has additionally stated in an earlier advert: “I’ll simply say it: Biden’s too previous.”
Haley is making an attempt to current herself as a “new generational chief” however she is trailing behind Trump within the Republican nomination race, having misplaced the primary contests, in Iowa and New Hampshire.
Haley’s residence state of South Carolina could have its Republican major subsequent month.
