EXCLUSIVE — Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley’s campaign Monday launched a digital ad in an effort to correct the record on what they believe are falsehoods being pushed by former President Donald Trump, a day ahead of the New Hampshire primary.
The ad, titled “Donald can’t stop lying,” shows recent news analysis of Trump’s attacks against Haley in New Hampshire. Later in the spot, the former South Carolina governor attempts to lump both Trump and President Joe Biden together, blasting the two presidential front-runners for misleading voters.
“It’s amazing to me how Joe Biden can say to you, ‘We’ve got a great economy,’ and we’re supposed to believe it,” Haley says in the ad. “It’s amazing how Donald Trump does the same thing and tells you things and just thinks you’re gonna believe it.”
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The primary in New Hampshire on Tuesday will be a major test for Haley, who wants to establish herself as an alternative to Trump after Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) suspended his campaign Sunday and endorsed Trump.
The ad resembles a similar defensive effort Haley deployed during a debate in Des Moines, Iowa, in which she plugged a website documenting DeSantis’s “lies” 16 times. In the nearly two-minute video, Haley pushes back against claims from Trump that she is against border security, an allegation she rails against at almost every campaign stop.
Trump’s campaign released an ad in New Hampshire weeks ago, casting Haley as weak on immigration. The spot attempts to lump her views on immigration with Biden’s, arguing both did not support Trump’s “border wall” or “visitor ban from terrorist nations.”
“You can’t just build a wall; you’ve got to do more than that, and I listed all of those things you have to do in addition to building the wall,” Haley often says at campaign events.
Trump’s campaign recently released a radio ad in New Hampshire over the weekend that claimed Haley’s proposals would “shockingly change the rules” on federal programs for older people by raising the retirement age. A recent television ad featured retirees learning that “Haley’s plan cuts Social Security benefits for 82% of Americans.”
The former U.N. ambassador attempts to push back against those claims. She has discussed proposals to raise the retirement age for young workers while protecting Social Security and Medicare benefits for those near retirement age.
“Now, he’s saying I want to cut social security. I never once said that,” Haley says in the ad.
She also reiterates she never raised the gas tax in her state and hit Trump for proposing a 25-cent-per-gallon hike in the federal gas tax in 2018. While Trump expressed some support for the idea, he never formalized it or pitched it to the public.
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“You’re gonna see a lot of things said, but at the end of the day, it’s the drama and the vengeance and the vindictiveness that we want to get out of the way,” Haley says in the ad.
Haley still trails her top rival, Trump, by more than 10 points in the state, according to recent polling.