{"id":554873,"date":"2023-02-22T04:09:18","date_gmt":"2023-02-22T01:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/nikki-haley-bernie-sanders-is-exactly-the-reason-mental-competency-tests-are-needed\/"},"modified":"2023-02-22T04:09:18","modified_gmt":"2023-02-22T01:09:18","slug":"nikki-haley-bernie-sanders-is-exactly-the-reason-mental-competency-tests-are-needed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/nikki-haley-bernie-sanders-is-exactly-the-reason-mental-competency-tests-are-needed\/","title":{"rendered":"#Nikki Haley: Bernie Sanders is \u2018exactly the reason\u2019 mental competency tests are needed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a37c6098b295\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a37c6098b295\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/nikki-haley-bernie-sanders-is-exactly-the-reason-mental-competency-tests-are-needed\/#Nikki_Haley_Bernie_Sanders_is_%E2%80%98exactly_the_reason_mental_competency_tests_are_needed\" >Nikki Haley: Bernie Sanders is \u2018exactly the reason\u2019 mental competency tests are needed<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Nikki_Haley_Bernie_Sanders_is_%E2%80%98exactly_the_reason_mental_competency_tests_are_needed\"><\/span>Nikki Haley: Bernie Sanders is \u2018exactly the reason\u2019 mental competency tests are needed<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/02\/HaleyNikki-1.jpg?w=900\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>MARION, Iowa \u2014 Presidential candidate Nikki Haley defended her proposal for mental competency tests here on Tuesday \u2014 in startlingly personal terms.<\/p>\n<p>Haley said that one critic of the proposal, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), was \u201cexactly the reason we need it.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr1_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Sanders, 81, had told Stephen Colbert of CBS\u2019s \u201cLate Show\u201d Monday that Haley\u2019s plan for mandatory tests of the mental acuity of politicians over the age of 75 was \u201cnothing more than old-fashioned ageism\u201d and \u201cnot acceptable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Haley, answering a final question from an audience member here at a campaign event, said: \u201cBernie Sanders lost his mind because I asked for that. He is exactly the reason we need it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The crowd laughed but\u00a0Haley then widened her critique, unprompted, to include two other veteran Democratic lawmakers, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (Calif) and Rep. Maxine Waters (Calif.)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhoopi Goldberg lost her mind over it \u2014 and you know what she was doing? She was glorifying Dianne Feinstein and Maxine Waters. They are exactly the reason we need it,\u201d Haley said.<\/p>\n<p>Feinstein, who is 89 and whose cognitive capacities have been widely questioned, recently announced she would retire at the end of her current term, sparking a Democratic race to succeed her.<\/p>\n<p>Haley\u2019s comments seem sure to inject fresh fire into the contoversy \u2014 and keep her in the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a>, as she has done throughout an impressive rollout to her campaign.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr2_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>She spent most of her 25-minute stump speech here suggesting she would pursue conservative policies on topics including crime, education and immigration.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She was for the most part complimentary about Donald Trump, but \u2014 in response to that same final question \u2014 made plain her differences with the former president.<\/p>\n<p>The question, from an audience member who identified himself as \u201cBob,\u201d was whether she would consider Trump as her running mate in 2024.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr3_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>So far Trump and Haley are the only two major candidates in the race.<\/p>\n<p>A clearly amused Haley asked, \u201cHow well do you think it would go over if I called President Trump [and ] said \u2018Do you wanna be my VP?&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident Trump is my friend. I called him before I did this. We had a good conversation,\u201d Haley said.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr4_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>But, she continued, \u201cHe was the right president at the right time. He broke the things that needed to be broken and he worked to fix them. The reason I\u2019m running is, we gotta move forward. We gotta move forward. We cant keep dealing with these issues in the past and I think we need a young generation of leaders.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Up until that point, Haley had mostly couched her contrast with Trump in implicit rather than direct terms.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For example, she hearkened back to a more peaceful time in American life when, she told the audience to nods, \u201cRemember, there wasn\u2019t chaos. You didn\u2019t hold your breath turning on the news.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr5_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Yet if Haley would be cast as a \u201cmoderate,\u201d that seems to be a label she doesn\u2019t want \u2014 perhaps because it is likely a ticket to defeat in today\u2019s GOP.<\/p>\n<p>She took the fight hard to President Biden, calling the recent Chinese spy balloon episode \u201ca national embarrassment.\u201d and the withdrawal from Afghanistan a \u201cdebacle.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She gave a mild nod of acknowledgment to Biden\u2019s current <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trip<\/a> to Poland and Ukraine but asked rhetorically \u201cShouldn\u2019t he be with those people in Ohio?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr6_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>She was alluding to the recent train derailment in East Palestine, after which residents have complained of a host of health symptoms \u2014 and the Biden administration has faced criticism for not sending more high-level officials to visit sooner.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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Haley said that one critic of the proposal, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), was \u201cexactly the reason we need it.\u201d Sanders,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":554874,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/02\/HaleyNikki-1.jpg?w=1280","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[134344,51421,134417,139252,134343,73114,4941,16450,73014,124783,140282,79172,86834],"class_list":["post-554873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-administration","tag-bernie-sanders","tag-blog-briefing-room","tag-business-economy","tag-campaign","tag-dianne-feinstein","tag-donald-trump","tag-equality","tag-health-care","tag-international","tag-mental-competency-tests","tag-nikki-haley","tag-whoopi-goldberg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=554873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/554874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}