Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley slammed fellow 2024 Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy after he introduced up her daughter in Wednesday’s GOP major debate.
The tense trade got here amid debate over whether or not to ban the social media app TikTok, which FBI and different nationwide safety officers have warned might ship private knowledge to China’s authoritarian authorities.
“Her personal daughter was really utilizing the app for a very long time, so that you may need to take care your loved ones first,” Ramaswamy mentioned to Haley on the occasion in Miami, the third GOP debate of the election cycle. The viewers booed in response.
“Go away my daughter out of your voice. … You’re simply scum,” Haley shot again with obvious content material, rolling her eyes and shaking her head.
Haley’s daughter is in her mid-20s, but it surely’s nonetheless very uncommon for candidates to convey up their opponents’ households as a part of an assault on a debate stage.
The 2 White Home hopefuls have sparred repeatedly through the major. On the first debate in August, Haley ripped into Ramaswamy for missing international coverage expertise.
Throughout one other a part of Wednesday’s debate, whereas discussing international coverage, Ramaswamy called Haley “Dick Cheney in 3-inch heels,” referring to the previous GOP vice chairman.
Haley shot again: “I’d first prefer to say, they’re 5-inch heels — and I don’t put on them except you may run in them.”
