Haley: “If Texas Decides To Secede, They Can Do That”

ABC News reports:

“If Texas decides they want to do that, they can do that,” Nikki Haley said in a Wednesday radio interview. “If that whole state says, ‘We don’t want to be part of America anymore,’ I mean, that’s their decision to make,” Haley said, though she also noted, “Let’s talk about what’s reality. Texas isn’t going to secede.”

Asked if she still believes that states have the right to secede, a sentiment she expressed during her initial run for governor of South Carolina, Haley said, “States have the right to make the decisions that their people want to make. I believe in state’s rights, I believe that everything should be as close to the people to decide.”

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Texas has the right to secede from the U.S. if its citizens decide to do so, Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley said — a controversial view that contradicts centuries of established history and precedent. https://t.co/3wrYA1wADf

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