Republican Nikki Haley recently threw her hat into the 2024 presidential election ring, and it sparked conversation on CNN’s new morning lineup that features Don Lemon, Poppy Harlow, and Kaitlin Collins.
The 51-year-old former South Carolina governor and ambassador to the U.N. has previously taken shots at other politicians for their age. She even called for “mandatory mental competency test” for politicians older than 75. Collins felt that this was a shot directed at 76-year-old former President Donald Trump and 80-year-old current President Joe Biden.
On Wednesday, Feb. 15, Haley used her first campaign rally to drive home the age issue, telling a crowd in Charleston, South Carolina, “America is not past our prime, it’s just that our politicians are past theirs.”
The following day she seemed to clarify that her competency test suggestion was not a barb aimed at Trump, telling the panel of “Fox & Friends” that the 45th president “did great the last time he did it.”
The test she referenced was one Trump took while in office to reveal any onset of dementia, not one meant to determine mental acuity. Haley has a complex history of both supporting and distancing herself from Trump, who appointed her to the U.N.
The CNN panel’s conversation about Haley took a turn when Lemon decided to make remarks about women’s “primes.”
“This whole talk about age makes me uncomfortable,” he said. “I think it’s the wrong road to go down. She says people, you know, politicians or something are not in their prime. Nikki Haley isn’t in her prime. Sorry, when a woman is considering being in her prime in 20s and 30s and maybe 40s.”
Both of his female co-hosts quickly interjected to get clarification on what point Lemon was trying to make.
Harlow responded, “Prime for what?”
“It depends, but if you look it up and Google ‘when is a woman in her prime’, it would say, 20s, 30s, and 40s,” retorted Lemon….
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