Nikki Haley Insists That America’s ‘Never Been a Racist Country’

A day after the United States honored the memory of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley insisted to Fox News that America “has never been a racist country.”

The former South Carolina governor’s comments come just weeks after she sparked backlash by failing to mention slavery as the cause of the Civil War, prompting numerous clean-up attempts that included blaming her flub on a “Democrat plant” and mentioning her “Black friends.”

Haley’s latest remarks are in response to MSNBC host Joy Reid claiming that Haley’s third-place finish in the Iowa Republican caucus on Monday night is largely due to the former United Nations ambassador’s race and ethnicity. Following Donald Trump’s blowout victory in Iowa, Reid noted that the majority of Republican voters agree with the ex-president’s Hitleresque “poisoning the blood” rhetoric about migrants, adding that Trump has also suggested Haley isn’t qualified to be president because her parents are immigrants.

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