David Weigel

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Second question, verbatim: "Please address the Second Amendment." Haley: "So, I am a concealed weapon permit holder myself... I believe people who want to defend themselves should be able to defend themselves." — PolitiTweet.org

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"When we finally deal with China, so much of this will be taken care of." — PolitiTweet.org

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Q&A begins - around two dozen people (of at least 200 in room) head out. First Q is about the risk of a "destabilizing" Iran. "What they want is to go back into the Iran deal... if you have a strong America, they will be too scared to do anything." — PolitiTweet.org

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"We grew up understanding that America is the best most moral country in the world." Trump rebooted Reagan's slogan, Haley casts the Reagan era (she was born in 1972) as a time when America wasn't crazy. — PolitiTweet.org

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Roughly similar applause for "term limits" and "mental competence tests" for pols over 75. "Put a badass woman in the White House." — PolitiTweet.org

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"We need to add people to our cause. Our cause is right." Repeats line about Rs losing popular vote in 7/8 of last elections. "That means Republicans are doing something wrong. We should not be okay with that." — PolitiTweet.org

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Haley closing on "national self-loathing." She says some people say America's racist, then pauses as if shocked all over again by how crazy this is. "America is not a racist country! It's not!" — PolitiTweet.org

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"The number one threat we have is China." Big applause for banning Chinese nationals from buying land in US, no applause for stopping them from stealing intellectual property, big applause for keeping CCP out of American colleges. — PolitiTweet.org

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"We need to stop earmarks altogether." — PolitiTweet.org

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Haley says FL's Parental Rights bill could have gone further. "Basically what it said was, you shouldn't have to talk about gender before third grade. I'm sorry, I don't think that goes far enough. When I was in school you didn't have sex ed until 7th grade." — PolitiTweet.org

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"I've never been in D.C., but I think they need a really good accountant." — PolitiTweet.org

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On inflation: "You see this debt, and you see all this conversation, and this is affecting people... 60 percent of Americans are in credit card debt." — PolitiTweet.org

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The UN part of this speech sounds like the same part of Haley's stump speech for Trump in 2020, complete with crowd-pleasing anecdotes about her and Trump standing up to Israel critics. (Lots of attention on how Haley rarely mentioned Trump by name in launch.) — PolitiTweet.org

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Haley on getting asked by Trump to be UN ambassador, which he now trollingly claims he did just to make Henry McMaster governor: "I said, I don't even know what the United Nations does, I just know everybody hates it." — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @JoshRaby: “I haven’t seen any major media reporting on this” — someone who spends 13 hours a day on Twitter and zero hours a day watchi… — PolitiTweet.org

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Haley's next (detailed) story is about, as a legislator, demanding a recorded vote for a member pay raise, then making that mandatory as governor. "Now, in South Carolina, everything debated on the floor of the House and Senate requires a recorded vote." — PolitiTweet.org

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Haley's next (detailed) story is about, as a legislator, demanding a recorded vote for a member pay raise, then making that mandatory as governor. "Now, in South Carolina, everything debated on the floor of the House and Senate requires a recorded vote." — PolitiTweet.org

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Biggest applause line since Haley started speaking: "I'm not a lawyer, I'm an accountant." — PolitiTweet.org

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"I started doing the books for that family business when I was 13. I didn't know that wasn't normal until I got to college." — PolitiTweet.org

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"I'm a big fan of music, and I hope they played the right music for you." Haley leads off with her upbringing in Bamberg: "We weren't white enough to be white, we weren't black enough to be black." — PolitiTweet.org

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Haley takes the mic. "You have a beautiful state, you have an even more beautiful motto: To live free or die. There is nobody who embodies that more than Gen. Don Bolduc." — PolitiTweet.org

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"I got to talk to many, many national leaders, and she's the one me and my wife said: Wow. She's the one." — PolitiTweet.org

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"Even if you didn’t support me, I ask you to support her. She is everyone’s candidate." — PolitiTweet.org

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"She's an intelligent, strong woman, who's in the right place at the right time." — PolitiTweet.org

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Don Bolduc introducing Nikki Haley in Exeter, NH. https://t.co/TYegUWKc0T — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @ryanjreilly: DOJ says the fact that Garrett Miller was wearing an "I was there" Jan. 6 t-shirt when the FBI came knocking on inaugurati… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @maxwelltani: Memo from Joe Kahn to NYT staff responding to yesterday's letter re: trans coverage. Times leadership says the paper "wil… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @claireatki: New York Times Blasts Staffers Who Condemned Paper’s Trans Coverage https://t.co/4NloOQPxU9 via @thedailybeast — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @AP: Bruce Willis' family, which announced last year that he would step away from acting after being diagnosed with aphasia, says he has… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @JennyENicholson: That time we went to the Bass Pro Shop Pyramid but it was also 9/11 and they inexplicably put the memorial newscasts o… — PolitiTweet.org