"Honestly, every time I hear you I feel a little bit dumber for what you say," Nikki Haley said to Vivek Ramaswamy at last night's debate. However, Haley wrote a glowing endorsement for Ramaswamy in his latest book. "He urges us to lift up all Americans, rather than to pit ourselves against one another. His combination of honesty, intellect, and foresight are exactly what we need to overcome our challenges in the years ahead."
Awkward.
Source: Fox Business News
Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley offered one of the most brutal attack lines of the night against her GOP rival Vivek Ramaswamy at the second Republican presidential debate, but before their on-stage feud she offered him high praise on the back cover of his book.
Haley went viral Wednesday night while taking Ramaswamy to task over his recent decision to join TikTok despite the national security risks over the tech company's links to China, which he argued was part of his outreach to younger voters.
"Honestly, every time I hear you I feel a little bit dumber for what you say," Haley jabbed the young political outsider.
However, as pointed out by New York Times columnist Carlos Lozada, Haley had quite the opposite attitude towards the biotech entrepreneur when she offered a glowing blurb for his book "Capitalist Punishment."
"In ‘Woke Inc.,' Vivek speaks the truth without fear: woke identity politics is dividing and weakening America at every level," Haley said in her endorsement of Ramaswamy while giving praise his first book.
"He urges us to lift up all Americans, rather than to pit ourselves against one another. His combination of honesty, intellect, and foresight are exactly what we need to overcome our challenges in the years ahead."
Carlos Lozada of the New York Times noted:
