Following Nikki Haley’s defeat in the New Hampshire Republican primary, Fox News host Greg Gutfeld weighed in on her “embarrassing” pandering and efforts to remain in the race.
The host of “Gutfeld!” took a long look at “woke” Haley as he addressed how the former South Carolina governor is continuing her Republican presidential bid by effectively running against her own party.
“Why would Nikki treat a New Hampshire hammering like a win? Just because she lost by less than expected?” he said in the monologue on his show Wednesday.
Gutfeld suggested it “comes down to money and power.”
“If she acts like she lost, there goes the gravy train and maybe she thinks if she sticks around, Trump might put her on the ticket,” he theorized. “But Trump’s victory means the deal is pretty much sealed. And if we know that, Nikki knows that. Which is why, as primary day approached, a new Nikki emerged: woke Nikki.”
He noted examples of “pandering anecdotes” by the former United Nations ambassador such as “facing discrimination for being brown when she was growing up. Nikki also claimed that she was disqualified from a beauty pageant when she was five because she was neither black nor white.”
“But it’s part of the game. You pick a lane. And hers was identity,” Gutfeld told viewers before airing a clip of Haley’s comments.
“I’m not questioning her origin story or how it impacted her life, all that sucks. But when you’re pandering to the Dems as a Republican, it’s kind of embarrassing,” he noted.
The Fox News host contended that in New Hampshire, “her constituency wasn’t really Republicans, it was Democrats.”
“In a way, she’s running against her own party, not just Trump,” he explained.
Gutfeld went on to note the results of the Democratic primary in New Hampshire as well, saying “two little-known challengers got roughly a quarter of the votes between them,” referring to Dean Phillips and Marianne Williamson.
“So while the media contorts itself to somehow make this a loss for Trump, and Nikki spends tens of millions getting pummeled, Biden appears weaker, frailer, and frankly, deader,” Gutfeld observed.
“So when the media tells you this thing is far from over, they’re right,” he concluded. “The problem is they’re talking about the wrong guy.”
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Originally from New York, Powers graduated from New York University and eventually made her way to sunny South Florida. Powers also contributes to BizPac Review.
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