A voter asked Haley the question, "What was the cause of the United States Civil War?" As a Daughter of the South and a former governor of a Confederate state, you would think Haley's answer would have been simple and fluid.

Apparently not. //

I think it always comes down to the role of government and what the rights of the people are. And I will always stand by the fact that I think government was intended to secure the rights and freedoms of the people.

The town hall voter didn't seem satisfied with her response, so he gave her a bit of a nudge, then pressed a bit harder. Finally, he said it was “astonishing” that Haley did not mention slavery in her response. Haley's response to this? “What do you want me to say about slavery?”

Haley then moved on to the next voter question. //

Largo Patriot
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This is the woman who, upon BLM's demand, disappeared South Carolina's history by removing all reminders of its Confederate roots which, it turns out, she doesn't know much about. For obvious reasons, Democrats want the American people to forget who the slave owners were and which political party fought for the Confederacy, enacted Jim Crow laws and supported segregation. Instead of owning their party's racist history, Democrats want to flip the script and persuade us that it is preserving the history of slavery that is racist, not slavery itself - and Nikki Haley was happy to assist them. Democrats can tear down every "racist" statue in this country and it will never change the fact that it was THEIR ancestors who captured, sold and owned slaves, it was THEIR ancestors who fought and died to preserve the institution of slavery and it was THEIR ancestors who tried for many decades after slavery ended to keep African Americans at the back of the bus.