{"id":2020959,"date":"2023-09-03T16:55:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T20:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nikki-haley-targets-elderly-politicians-who-refuse-to-give-up-power\/"},"modified":"2023-09-03T16:56:25","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T20:56:25","slug":"nikki-haley-targets-elderly-politicians-who-refuse-to-give-up-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nikki-haley-targets-elderly-politicians-who-refuse-to-give-up-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Nikki Haley takes aim at aging politicians clinging to power."},"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\">20<\/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%2Fnikki-haley-targets-elderly-politicians-who-refuse-to-give-up-power%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=2020959&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>GOP Candidate\u2064 Nikki \u2063Haley Calls \u200cfor Mental Competency Exams for\u2062 Older Politicians<\/h2>\n<p>GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley \u2064is making waves with \u2063her proposal to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nikki-haley-targets-elderly-politicians-who-refuse-to-give-up-power\/\" title=\"Nikki Haley takes aim at aging politicians clinging to power.\">mandate mental\u200c competency\u200d exams<\/a> \u2062for older\u2064 politicians. This comes after Senate Minority\u2062 Leader Mitch\u200c McConnell&#8217;s recent freeze during an event, which raised\u2062 concerns about his fitness for office.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, McConnell, who is\u200d 81 years old, experienced a\u200c period \u200dof \u200cfreezing while taking questions from\u200c reporters.\u2063 While some of his GOP colleagues believe he is \u2063fine, McConnell has been temporarily relieved of his duties in the Senate. <\/p>\n<p>When Haley \u2064announced her presidential bid in \u200cFebruary, she emphasized her support for\u2063 mental exams for\u2063 politicians aged 75 and older.\u2062 She specifically mentioned McConnell, as well\u200d as \u2063former House\u200b Speaker Nancy Pelosi (83), President Joe \u200cBiden (80), and \u2063Senator Dianne Feinstein (90).<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>Related Stories<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/us\/nikki-haley-says-mcconnell-should-resign-after-freeze-up-calls-senate-most-privileged-nursing-home-in-the-country-5484943\">Nikki Haley Says McConnell Should Resign After Freeze-Up, Calls Senate &#8216;Most Privileged \u2063Nursing Home in the Country&#8217;<\/a> &#8211; \u200c9\/1\/2023<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/world\/senate-to-pushes-for-release-of-documents-shuttered-qatar-airways-bid-5482973\">Senators Push for Release of\u200c Documents Behind Shuttered Qatar\u200c Airways Bid<\/a> &#8211; 8\/30\/2023<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019m completely for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nikki-haley-holds-first-campaign-event\/\" title=\"Nikki Haley Holds First Campaign Event\">mental competency tests<\/a> for anyone over\u2063 the\u2063 age of 75, and I\u2019m\u200d not saying that to\u2063 be disrespectful,&#8221; Haley \u200bstated during an interview on CBS&#8217;s &#8220;Face The Nation.&#8221; She acknowledged the contributions of McConnell,\u200d Feinstein, and Pelosi \u2063but \u200dquestioned when they\u2064 should step aside and allow a younger generation to \u2063take \u200cover.<\/p>\n<p>Haley believes that\u2064 if \u2064the United States wants\u2063 to improve its \u2062standing \u2062domestically and internationally, it cannot \u2063afford to have \u200cindividuals clinging \u200bto power. She sees this\u2062 as a congressional problem and emphasizes the\u200b need for term limits.<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure style=\"width:600px\" class=\"alignnone\"><figcaption>Senate \u200bMinority Leader\u2064 Mitch McConnell appears to freeze up for more than 30 \u200bseconds during a public appearance after an event with the Northern Kentucky Chamber of Commerce in Covington, \u2063Ky., on Aug. 30, 2023. (ABC\u2063 Affiliate WCPO via Reuters)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>In addition to her call for mental competency exams, Haley \u200balso\u200c criticized the Senate,\u200b referring to it \u200das &#8220;the most <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nikki-haley-calls-senate-the-most-privileged-nursing-home-in-us-after-mcconnell-freeze\/\" title=\"Nikki Haley dubs Senate 'privileged nursing home' after McConnell freeze.\">privileged nursing home<\/a> in the \u2063country.&#8221; She\u200b believes that politicians should be able to \u2064<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-attorney-general-nominee-pleads-ignorance-on-gun-control-limits\/\" title=\"Biden Attorney General Nominee Pleads Ignorance on Gun Control Limits\">answer basic questions<\/a> about their personal lives and capabilities.<\/p>\n<p>This incident is\u200c not \u200dthe first time McConnell has experienced freezing in public. In March,\u200b he suffered a concussion and \u200cbroke a rib after falling and hitting his head. However, McConnell&#8217;s office\u2063 has stated that\u2064 he has been cleared by his neurology\u200c team to continue with his schedule.<\/p>\n<p>While \u2064McConnell&#8217;s freeze-up episodes raise concerns, his office attributes them to occasional lightheadedness \u200cassociated with concussion recovery and dehydration.\u200d Despite these explanations, Haley&#8217;s \u2062proposal has sparked a broader conversation about the need for mental competency assessments in \u2063politics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GOP candidate Nikki Haley reiterated her demand for mental competency exams for older politicians, following Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell&#8217;s recent freeze during a press event. Despite being cleared of any concerns, Haley remains firm in her belief that such exams should be mandatory to ensure the fitness of older politicians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":2020960,"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":[543],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2020959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times"],"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\/2020959","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\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2020959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2020959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2020960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2020959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2020959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2020959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}