Nikki Haley takes on Donald Trump
Written by Dana Milbank, The Washington Post, 09/02/15
Donald Trump is driving the Republican
Party into the abyss. Can Nikki Haley pull it back?
Trump, the Republican presidential
front-runner, talks of immigrants as rapists and women as bimbos and appeals to
the angry white man. He invokes the “silent majority,” employs racial dog
whistles and picks fights with everybody, but conspicuously with two well-known
broadcasters, a Latino and a woman.
Then there is Haley, young and
charismatic, often mentioned as a vice presidential prospect. The child of
Indian immigrants, she is the first woman and the first member of a minority
group to be governor of South Carolina. She responded admirably and forcefully
to the police killing in her state of Walter Scott, an unarmed black man, and
she championed legislation to put cameras on police officers statewide — the
first of its kind.
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