Nikki Haley Shredded for Comment About Disney and DeSantis
Republican presidential hopeful Nikki Haley is taking heat for comments she made about Disney and one of her primary rivals. During an appearance on Fox News, the former South Carolina governor was asked about Disney’s…
Republican presidential hopeful Nikki Haley is taking heat for comments she made about Disney and one of her primary rivals.
During an appearance on Fox News, the former South Carolina governor was asked about Disney’s lawsuit accusing Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) of a “targeted campaign of government retaliation.”
“As governor, I took a double-digit unemployment state and I turned it into an economic powerhouse,” Haley responded.
She went on, “Businesses were my partners because if you take care of your businesses you take care of your economy, your economy takes care of your people, and everyone wins.”
Haley shared the clip and wrote, “Hey , my home state will happily accept your 70,000+ jobs if you want to leave Florida. We’ve got great weather, great people, and it’s always a great day in South Carolina!”
“SC’s not woke, but we’re not sanctimonious about it either,” she added.
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Conservative writer Jordan Schachtel wrote, “Nice of you to sell South Carolinians to the groomers without their consent.”
“Whoever on your team thinks this is a good tweet, fire them,” tweeted actor Matthew Marsden.
Conservative commentator Dana Loesch tweeted, “Running to the left of DeSantis is a bad look.”
“Nikki Haley is working on being as a unlikable as Hillary Clinton. Keep going, sweetie!” tweeted conservative commentator Tomi Lahren.
The Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh wrote, “The entire Republican field is attacking DeSantis from the Left. I don’t care if you’re a Trump supporter, you have to see what a disaster it will be if this tactic is allowed to work.”
Sarah Longwell, the publisher of The Bulwark, tweeted, “Ah, I see we’re running against Ron Desantis—who, interestingly, isn’t the front runner. I’m tryna think. When have I seen this strategy before? How’d it go?”
Never Back Down, a Super PAC supporting DeSantis, wrote, “Embracing woke corporations and copying Trump’s lame attack at the same time? Someone’s trying really hard to audition for VP!”
https://twitter.com/NvrBackDown24/status/1651303861401813009
Walt Disney Parks and Resorts U.S. Inc. filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida on Wednesday.
It alleges the governor conducted a “targeted campaign of government retaliation” against the company.
The feud started in 2022 after Disney condemned the state’s Parental Rights in Education law.
CNN noted in February that DeSantis signed a new law that “amounts to a state takeover of the Reedy Creek Improvement District, the government body that has given Disney unique powers in Central Florida for more than half a century. It allows the governor to replace the district’s existing board – mostly people with ties to Disney – with a five-member body that he hand-picks.”
During an event earlier this month, the governor vowed, “We’ll make sure that we keep in their pen, one way or another.”