Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley on Sunday reiterated her belief that President Joe Biden cannot make it through an entire second term and that his reelection would lead to Vice President Kamala Harris succeeding him in the Oval Office.
The comments, which Haley made in an interview with Fox Business’s Sunday Morning Futures, follow months of similar suggestions from the former South Carolina governor that a vote for Biden in 2024 is actually a vote for Harris.
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“We cannot have Kamala Harris as president. We can’t chance this,” Haley told host Maria Bartiromo. “We have to make sure we have a new generational leader who will bring in not only Republicans, but Independents, suburban women, Hispanics, and the Asian community.
“We have to make sure we win this because the thought of Kamala Harris being president should send a chill up every American’s spine,” she added.
Haley, 51, has made age a focus of her 2024 bid, calling for mental competency tests for politicians older than 75. She has also suggested that Biden is unlikely to survive a second term, in which he would be 86 at the conclusion, since the start of her campaign.
“America is not past our prime. It’s just that our politicians are past theirs,” Haley said at her campaign launch in February.
Speaking to Tucker Carlson at the Family Leadership Summit last month, Haley acknowledged that she had been harping on the matter but explained, “We can’t afford a President Kamala Harris. I will say that over and over again.”
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Biden is 80, whereas former President Donald Trump is 77. Should both men be their party’s nominee in 2024, as polling suggests is likely to happen, they’ll be the oldest candidates in U.S. history.
Biden has already made history as the oldest commander in chief the United States has ever had. If he wins a second term next year, he’ll fall just short of making the top 10 list of oldest-serving leaders in the world. While the president and his team have framed his age as a reflection of his decades of experience, poll after poll shows it could be a liability for his reelection chances.
