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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNikki Haley's Anti-Trans Rhetoric Falls Flat in New Hampshire
The 2024 presidential contender veered hard into Fox News territory at a Wednesday campaign event. It didnt go well.https://www.thedailybeast.com/2024-gop-presidential-candidate-nikki-haleys-anti-trans-dylan-mulvaney-rhetoric-falls-flat-in-new-hampshire
MANCHESTER, New HampshireWhen Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley stepped onstage Wednesday morning at a campaign event at Saint Anselm College, she had a question for the crowd. "Everybody know about Dylan Mulvaney? Haley asked. Bud Light? That is a guy, dressed as a girl, making fun of women.
To the GOPs hardcore base, Dylan Mulvaney needs no introduction. The transgender content creator who partnered with Budweiser has been the target of vicious attacks and sustained indignation for weeks, largely thanks to a seemingly endless stream of segments on Fox News.
But in the crowd at Saint Anselm Colleges Politics & Eggs event, packed with New Hampshires famously independent voters, this anti-transgender broadside was not met with applause but silence. Voters in the room appeared largely unaware of the Bud Light controversy. When Haley waited for applause, they didnt clap.
It wasnt the only moment during Haleys stop at the seminal New Hampshire campaign event when her conservative culture war messaging seemed out of place. Earlier in her stump speech, for instance, Haley declared she was unapologetically pro-life, a staple GOP applause line that received a muted response from the crowd.
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Celerity
May 2023
OP
Good! She's an idiot. Dylan is loved exponentially more than she'll ever be. nt
littlemissmartypants
May 2023
#2
It is so insensitive and cruel to refuse to refer to a trans person as who they are.
Maraya1969
May 2023
#4
Grown2Hate
(2,010 posts)1. GOOD. One fucking fascist at a time.
Has she not heard of, "Live free or die"?. Read the room, you fucking MORON.
littlemissmartypants
(22,653 posts)2. Good! She's an idiot. Dylan is loved exponentially more than she'll ever be. nt
Cha
(297,191 posts)3. She's a fucking Tool Idiot.
Shel's Anti Choice and NOT "pro life" for kids after they're born.
Haha @ Haley... imitating deSadist Bombed.
Maraya1969
(22,479 posts)4. It is so insensitive and cruel to refuse to refer to a trans person as who they are.
"That's a guy, dressed as a girl"
I'd call her Mr. Haley if I was around the area.
WarGamer
(12,440 posts)5. In the Engineering and Medical fields... (my former career)
There are lots of GOP'ers...
But they're almost exclusively the libertarian "stay out of my business, I'm taxed too much" type and pretty much NONE of them care about social issues, sexual orientation, marriage or such things.
70sEraVet
(3,495 posts)6. Yeah, i really dont see those folks getting too worked up about about what other people are doing.
The hate messages plays well in the South, where ministers convince people that they need to go to war against the imagined sins of their neighbors.