A group of climate change protesters disrupted Nikki Haley's campaign event in New Hampshire on Saturday night, prompting the former South Carolina governor to reprimand attendees who booed the activists, Politico reports. Reported.
Several young demonstrators disrupted Haley's campaign event in Nashua, New Hampshire, holding signs that read “Haley: Climate Criminal” and chanting “climate criminal.” according to on video of the incident. Haley told his supporters not to boo the protesters, who were escorted out, Politico reported. report.
“Her husband and other military members sacrifice for us every day so she can do that,” she told the crowd, according to Politico.
Politico reported that Haley showed some sympathy for climate protesters later in the event.
“We all also worry about the environment,” she said, according to the newspaper. “We all want clean air. We all want clean water. We all want a world in which our children and grandchildren can grow up. It's a debate. Not applicable.”
“What we have to do is do it in a smart way,” she continued. “First, blame India and China for being big polluters. If we really plan to save the environment, they are the ones who need to start reducing our emissions.” It won’t happen.”
Several climate protesters disrupted former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley's final event of the day in Nashua, New Hampshire.
This is the third time in just a few minutes that protesters have started shouting.
And Haley praised the First Amendment rights that made it possible. pic.twitter.com/sMmTpDwM1Q
— Rob Way (@RobWayTV) January 21, 2024
Former President Donald Trump attends a rally in New Hampshire on Saturday. Said The “radical left of the Democratic Party” supports Haley because they “know she can be defeated very easily,” he said.
The Stand for America Fund, a pro-Haley super PAC that has emerged as one of the biggest spenders in the 2024 Republican primary, received $250,000 from Reid Hoffman, a Democratic mega-donor with ties to Jeffrey Epstein. Dollar donations accepted.Haley's New Hampshire Secretary of State Tyler Clark also lobbied for the Democratic Party-aligned underground finance group Sixteen Thirty Fund, the Washington Examiner reported. report.
Haley's campaign pointed to the former governor's comments to the Daily Caller News Foundation instructing the crowd not to boo climate protesters.
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