Charlamagne tha God climbs onboard the Nikki Haley train

Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley’s performance at the second Republican presidential primary debate has convinced talk radio personality Charlamagne tha God that she’s presidential material.

On Thursday’s edition of the nationally syndicated “The Breakfast Club” which appeals to a largely black audience, Charlamagne and co-host DJ Envy welcomed Tezlyn Figaro, the curator of the show’s Front-Page News segment to break down the event that was held the previous night.

Figaro praised the former South Carolina governor and U.S. ambassador to the UN for showing off her policy chops during the debate which at times descended into fighting between the top GOP candidates – with the exception of the runaway frontrunner – with the moderators letting them have at it.

“GOP should clear the field, get rid of everybody, including Trump, and let Nikki Haley be the GOP candidate,” said the host, whose real name is Lenard Larry McKelvey.

(Video: YouTube/Nikki Haley)

It isn’t the first time that Charlamagne tha God has sung Haley’s praises, gushing over the candidate’s call for mental competency tests for politicians as it becomes more difficult for the complicit media to cover for mentally declining octogenarians like President Joe Biden.

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“Nikki is absolutely right. She ain’t say one damn thing wrong,” he said. “I’ll stop her when she stops telling the truth. We need term limits. And, you know, if you all going to stay in, you definitely need mental competency tests over the age of whatever.”

(Video: Grabien)

“I’ve been saying this for the longest,” DJ Envy added. “And every time I say it, they say I’m attacking old people — No, but it’s not,” as the two singled out 90-year-old Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.)  and 81-year-old Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) who have both recently experienced public difficulties that drew attention to their age.

During Wednesday night’s debate, Haley made headlines for her attacks on Florida Governor Ron DeSantis whom she accused of being against domestic energy independence, especially when it comes to fracking.

“What you don’t need is a president who is against energy independence. Ron DeSantis is against fracking. He’s against drilling,” Haley said at the debate, a statement that wasn’t exactly honest and was a distortion of the Sunshine State Republican’s record with even the vaunted “fact checker” PolitiFact ruling that it was only a half-truth.

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Haley said that DeSantis “always talks about what happens on Day 1. You better watch out because what happens on Day 2 is when you’re in trouble. Day 2 in Florida, you banned fracking, you banned offshore drilling, you did it on federal lands and you took green subsidies that you didn’t have to take,” an attack that was almost certainly filed away by Democrats for future reference.

“We found that Haley omitted context. As DeSantis ran for governor in 2018, he campaigned on banning hydraulic fracturing and oil drilling off Florida’s coast. That year, voters also approved a constitutional amendment to ban drilling. DeSantis continues to oppose fracking and oil drilling off Florida’s coast, but says he isn’t against it elsewhere,” PolitiFact noted.

An avid defender of the U.S. backing of Ukraine and an establishment favorite, Haley isn’t likely to win the support of the pro-Trump GOP base if she somehow manages to emerge from the pack as a serious contender.

Chris Donaldson

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