MANCHESTER (New Hampshire) – Nikki Haley he banned the Daily Mail from his presidential campaign rallies. Reason: the British media has relaunched the rumors about his alleged extramarital affairs, just on the eve of the decisive vote in Tuesday’s primaries, which will establish whether his race against Donald Trump for the Republican presidential nomination in November still has any hope of succeeding stop it.
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Il Daily Mail returned to rumors that had circulated in recent years that Haley had had affairs with two men, the communications consultant Will Folks and the lobbyist Larry Marchantin 2008, before becoming governor of South Carolina in 2010. According to the Daily Mailthe two alleged lovers signed affidavits confirming the sexual relations, and other witnesses corroborated them.
Nikki had already responded to these insinuations by saying that she had always been faithful to her husband Michael Haley, father of their two children and National Guard major, deployed to Afghanistan in 2012 and now in Africa. Then the presidential candidate reacted by banning the British media from attending her campaign events.
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The question raises at least three problems. The first is the reliability of the accusations. American politics has a habit of taking a great deal of interest in the private lives of its protagonists. If on the one hand this can be justified, because it serves to better understand their character, their possible blackmailability, and therefore the ability to carry out the task they aspire to, on the other hand it creates serious privacy issues. However, Haley often cites her husband’s military service as one of the elements that pushed her to run for the White House, and so she herself makes it an integral part of her campaign.
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The second problem is the exploitation of this information to sabotage his run for president. Everyone knows that Tuesday’s vote in New Hampshire will be decisive, because if Nikki beats Donald she could change the dynamics of the primaries, while if she loses like in Iowa she will be left without options. Candidates are known to have a habit of digging into their opponents’ personal lives to find compromising private information to eliminate them. And just on the eve of an important passage like that of New Hampshire, an insinuation comes out in a media not hostile to Trump that threatens to sink his main, or only, rival.
The third problem concerns freedom of information. Haley responded by banning the Daily Mail, which does not go very well with the First Amendment of the Constitution, according to which the right of American citizens to express themselves can never be limited. If the news is false, whoever published it deserves to suffer the consequences; if it is true, however, the public has the right to know it.
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Rumors of betrayal aside, the candidate for the Republican Party nomination continues her run and during the last rally she questioned the mental capacity of Donald Trump to govern, after the 77-year-old former president appeared to confuse her with another politician. During an intervention in New Hampshire, the tycoon repeatedly mentioned the name of Nikki Haley when he addressed the topic of his supporters’ storming of the US Capitol on January 6, 2021.
“Nikki Haley is in charge of security, we offered her 10,000 people, soldiers, national guard, whatever they want. They refused,” he said. In the past, she had already accused the Democrat Nancy Pelosi, then president of the House of Representatives, of having rejected such an offer – which was not proven, according to the report of a parliamentary commission of inquiry. “I wasn’t even in Washington on January 6,” Nikki Haley told voters Saturday in New Hampshire, where she will play a major role in Tuesday’s election.
“My concern, without wanting to be derogatory, is that when you’re dealing with the pressure of the presidency, you can’t have someone question whether they’re mentally capable of doing it,” he added.