Nikki Haley takes Halloween-themed swipe at Donald Trump

Facing an uphill primary battle against Donald Trump even in her home state of South Carolina, Indian American Republican presidential contender Nikki Haley trolled the former President by way of a fake Halloween costume Thursday.

Haley, the first Indian American to get cabinet rank as US ambassador to United Nations under Trump, posted to X, formerly Twitter, a picture of photoshopped packaging for a Halloween costume which is labeled as the “Weakest General Election Candidate Ever.”

The costume includes “$50M in legal fees,” “terrible poll numbers,” “social media rants” and “temper tantrums,” it says but notes that it doesn’t include a “private jet” and “Diet Coke.”

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“Democrats are ecstatic about the prospect of running against Donald Trump,” Haley wrote. “They couldn’t dream up a worse general election candidate if they tried. Between his legal drama, his terrible poll numbers, and his confusion, Trump will hand Democrats a big victory.”

In response, Trump’s campaign brushed off the attack. “Nikki Haley is a stone cold loser who is becoming more irrelevant by the day,” Trump campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung stated. “The more people get to know her and her Democrat ties, the more they despise her for being a fraud.”

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Meanwhile, in an interview with CNN Thursday, Haley said her former boss is too old, too confused, too chaotic, and too tantrum-prone to be president — and in a jab likely to especially infuriate her rival, warned he even lacks the money to mount a proper White House run.

Grouping Trump with President Joe Biden, she said it was “absurd” that the country would be stuck with two 80-year-old candidates. (Biden is 81 and Trump is 77.)

She warned that Trump has had some “confused moments” in recent days, and she rebuked the ex-president for a “temper tantrum” on the night of his New Hampshire primary win when he tried to push her out of the race. In recent campaign events, Haley has also questioned Trump’s morality and capacity to tell right from wrong.

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Despite Haley’s swipe at the former president, another recent poll found her trailing in her home state of South Carolina, where she had previously served as governor, among potential Republican primary voters by 26 points.

The Monmouth University-Washington Post poll found 58% backing Trump versus 32% backing his last opponent standing in the Republican nominating contest.

A Bloomberg News/Morning Consult poll released Wednesday also, found that Trump would not get the votes of a majority of swing state voters if convicted of a crime.

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