Twin rebukes for Trump’s politics, from Obama and Haley

Responding to questions, Haley said she got upset with Trump when he called for banning all Muslims from entering the United States.

Rinker says she thinks Haley would be an excellent choice for vice president. He surmised that if he were not a candidate for president she would be asking him for her own campaign cash.

“You know, I’ve got a daughter that’s a senior in high school, I’ve got a son in middle school, so I’m busy with basketball games and running the State”.

While Tuesday night Donald Trump played the punching bag, on Wednesday he played the role of pugilist with a number of blows struck at both President Obama and Nikki Haley. During anxious times, it can be tempting to follow the siren call of the angriest voices.

“Today, we live in a time of threats like few others in recent memory”, said Haley, viewed as a potential vice presidential candidate, speaking from Columbia, her state’s capital.

The GOP front-runner, who has shown no reluctance to steamroll rivals and critics since joining the Republican presidential field last summer, seemed to take a more measured approach to the SC governor’s Tuesday night remarks, which included thinly veiled criticism of the billionaire’s fiery rhetoric.

“I respect all of those people and understand their opinion, but I disagree”, she said on the Today show.

“If a candidate wanted to sit down and talk, I would sit down and talk”, she said. “I want people to come into the country, but I want them to come in legally, and that’s a very big distinction. And that can make a world of difference”, she said. She doesn’t, and I think the people in her great state, I love her state, I’m there a lot, and by the way I have a massive lead in SC. But whoever I pick is also going to be very strong on illegal immigration.

“I think there’s probably a lot of us to blame”, Mr Denis McDonough, the White House chief of reporters staff, told yesterday (Jan 13).

Haley herself said in a news conference Wednesday that Ryan gave her tips like putting a cough drop in her mouth, but nothing more substantive than that.

But former HP chief executive Carly Fiorina argued that Americans have a right to be angry about issues such as illegal immigration.

Ted Cruz, now Trump’s closest competitor, was also part of the GOP’s problem with tone. But she’s a very nice woman, a very good woman.

Coulter even went so far as to tweet “Trump should deport Nikki Haley”. Viewers who managed to tear their attention away from the governor’s curiously clenched jaw long enough to hear the words coming out of her mouth may have been surprised by the speech itself.