Profile In Courage: Haley Refuses To Say Slavery Caused Civil War

Here is the candidate the anti-Trump right is hoping defeats him in Iowa or New Hampshire.

Nikki Haley has been a profile in spinelessness from day one, and nothing has changed between now and then, with her refusing to give a straight answer to an audience member at a town hall in New Hampshire on whether slavery was the cause of the Civil War:

The former UN Ambassador and South Carolina governor, who has seen her star rise in the first-in-the-nation primary state, was appearing at a town hall event in Berlin, New Hampshire, when a voter asked her to identify the cause of the war.

“I think the cause of the Civil War was basically how government was going to run,” she responded. “The freedoms and what people could and couldn’t do. What do you think the cause of the Civil War was or argument?”

The questioner, who could not be easily heard off camera, was apparently unpersuaded by Haley’s response. When she asked him what he believed the cause of the war was, he replied that he wasn’t running for president.

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