{"id":1985549,"date":"2023-07-28T21:08:08","date_gmt":"2023-07-29T01:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lincoln-day-dinner-nikki-haley-re-ups-call-for-competency-tests-after-mcconnell-freeze\/"},"modified":"2023-07-28T21:09:11","modified_gmt":"2023-07-29T01:09:11","slug":"lincoln-day-dinner-nikki-haley-re-ups-call-for-competency-tests-after-mcconnell-freeze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lincoln-day-dinner-nikki-haley-re-ups-call-for-competency-tests-after-mcconnell-freeze\/","title":{"rendered":"Nikki Haley renews competency test call at Lincoln Day Dinner following McConnell&#8217;s halt."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Flincoln-day-dinner-nikki-haley-re-ups-call-for-competency-tests-after-mcconnell-freeze%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1985549&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Engaging Text: \u200bNikki Haley Criticizes Trump&#8217;s \u200bSpending and Calls for Competency Tests<\/h2>\n<p>During \u200cthe Iowa Republican Party&#8217;s Lincoln Day Dinner in Des Moines, former U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley \u200ddidn&#8217;t\u2064 hold back in her criticism of former \u2064President \u2064Donald Trump&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/arsonist-taking-credit-for-containing-a-fire-gop-senators-blast-biden-admin-for-claiming-5-8-trillion-budget-is-fiscally-responsible\/\" title=\"\u2018Arsonist Taking Credit For Containing A Fire\u2019: GOP Senators Blast Biden Admin For Claiming .8 Trillion Budget Is Fiscally Responsible\">pandemic-era spending<\/a>.\u2063 She highlighted the country&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lincoln-day-dinner-nikki-haley-re-ups-call-for-competency-tests-after-mcconnell-freeze\/\" title=\"Nikki Haley renews competency test call at Lincoln Day Dinner following McConnell's halt.\">staggering  trillion debt<\/a>, saying, &#8220;Our Republicans did that \u2062to us too.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>Addressing Key Issues<\/h3>\n<p>Haley didn&#8217;t stop at criticizing Trump&#8217;s spending. She also scrutinized congressional Republicans&#8217; reintroduction of earmarks and Vice President Kamala Harris&#8217;s response to the root causes of illegal immigration. She emphasized the need \u2062for\u200c term \u200climits in D.C. and called for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nikki-haley-holds-first-campaign-event\/\" title=\"Nikki Haley Holds First Campaign Event\">competency tests<\/a> for politicians older than 75 years \u200cof age.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That\u2019s not being \u200cdisrespectful; these \u2062are \u200c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/i-think-there-will-be-a-referendum-on-these-sorts-of-actions-in-2022-candace-owens-roasts-san-francisco-mayor-for-flouting-mask-mandate\/\" title=\"\u2018I Think There Will Be A Referendum On These Sorts Of Actions In 2022\u2019: Candace Owens Roasts San Francisco Mayor For Flouting Mask Mandate\">people making decisions<\/a> on our \u2064national security,&#8221; Haley added,\u2062 injecting a touch of humor by joking about President Biden finally acknowledging his illegitimate granddaughter earlier that day.<\/p>\n<h3>The Importance of the Lincoln Day Dinner<\/h3>\n<p>The \u2064Lincoln\u200d Day Dinner serves as\u200d a critical opportunity for 2024 Republican primary presidential candidates to distinguish themselves from a crowded field before the first-in-the-nation \u2064caucuses in January. According to\u200d RealClearPolitics, \u200cTrump leads the pack with 52% support,\u200c followed\u2062 by Gov. Ron DeSantis at 18%, biotechnology entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy and former Vice President Mike Pence \u200dat 5%, Haley at 4%, and Sen. Tim Scott at 3%.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned for \u200dmore updates on \u200dthe race for the Republican nomination!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Des Moines, Iowa. Nikki Haley criticized Trump&#8217;s pandemic spending and called for competency tests for public officials, following McConnell&#8217;s health scare. Haley stated, &#8220;Our Republicans did that to us too,&#8221; at the Iowa Republican Party&#8217;s Lincoln Day Dinner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1985550,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1985549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1985549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1985549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1985549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1985550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1985549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1985549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1985549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}