Nikki Haley’s claim about Biden, Harris and racism
Nikki Haley, the Republican former governor of South Carolina and the former US ambassador to the United Nations, made the first speech of her 2024 presidential campaign on Wednesday.
Like many kickoff speeches, Haley’s address in Charleston was heavy on broad themes and light on the kind of specific claims that can be fact-checked. But she did make one particularly inflammatory accusation about President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris.
Haley claimed that under Biden and Harris, “a self-loathing has swept our country.” She said, “Every day we’re told America is...