Haley Slams Trump: “The Past Is Catching Up With Him”

Real Clear Politics reports:

Everyone in the audience here laughed when Nikki Haley took credit for bringing good weather with her on an unseasonably warm Iowa evening, and then as the sun started to set in the watercolor-painted sky, she turned their attention to everything wrong about America right now. In her telling, this meant a nation embarrassed abroad, a country lacking confidence at home, a people unmoored from the ideals that once made them great.

Marrying nostalgia with optimism, Haley tells the decidedly senior luncheon crowd that “we could have that again. Don’t you want that again?” Sentimentality has its limits though. Haley appreciates the past. But she doesn’t want to return to recent history or even think that’s a possibility. “He’s living in the past, and the past is catching up with him in a way that it is causing drama,” she replied when RCP asked if her exhortation against complaining applied to Trump.

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