Tucker interviews former South Carolina Governor and former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley

“I said, you take her [John Kerry’s sister’s] key pass, you take her computer, and we will pay her to sit at home but she is not to walk back in this building [the UN].” ~Ambassador Nikki Haley

The Blaze held a summit over this July 15, 2023 weekend where Tucker Carlson interviewed the current field of 2024 Republican Party presidential primary candidates one on one (except Trump).

This post is a quick summary of Tucker’s interview with former South Carolina Governor and form UN Ambassador Nikki Haley. You can watch the full video here, and I’ve included a 4 minute clip below.

What I heard

Here’s what I heard when I listened to Tucker interview former South Carolina Governor and from UN Ambassador Nikki Haley.

Power to the Governors. Haley’s answers to numerous questions focused on Governors and what they can do to ensure trust in elections and fix education, healthcare, or other things. As President, she’d meet with “her governors” frequently to “push [federal] power down to the states.” Haley said that State governors must step up to that people trust elections. She described how, as governor, she invested in education and training of prisoners “behind the fence” and gave incentives to potential employers so released prisoners were more likely to have skills and jobs upon release. She suggested that South Carolina has the lowest recidivism rate in the country as a result. [1:15–6:44, 9:15–10:30]

I gutted the agency and cut off its head. The first thing Haley did as governor of South Carolina was “replace the head of every agency” and hire teams to clean up each agency as a whole. To Haley, trust in government cannot always be achieved by replacing leadership—at times it is necessary to gut an entire agency. [6:45–8:13]

I banned John Kerry’s sister from the UN. In her first week at the United Nations, John Kerry’s sister told the press (falsely) that Haley was going to take certain actions that Haley didn’t plan to take. According to Haley, after being told Kerry’s sister couldn’t be fired from the US mission at the UN for six months, “I said, you take her key pass, you take her computer, and we will pay her to sit at home but she is not to walk back in this building.” [8:14–9:10]

New healthcare regulations. Asked to weigh in on homelessness and psychotropic drugs, Haley said we have a broken healthcare system that we need to completely tear up—“from the insurance companies, to the hospitals, to the doctors, to the PBMs.” She suggested veterans and others battling mental health challenges should have access to telemedicine doctors on-demand. Haley proposed judging doctors by outcomes, rather than prescriptions and patients seen. Further, Haley attacked the lack of patient input in hospitals by proposing that hospitals and insurance companies must show us what they are doing. [10:42–14:40]

My Thoughts

Haley has a disarming charm about her and many real and relevant experiences as a Governor and UN Ambassador.

She comes across as a pragmatist, much like her former boss—President Trump. Like Trump, Haley hit on themes like transparency in healthcare, energy independence as a national security issue, taking care of our veterans, China’s role in climate change, and the ineffective Paris Climate Accord. She criticized both parties for uncontrolled spending while Americans grew poorer.

Haley was noticeably uninterested in whether Biden was involved in blowing up the Nordstream 2 pipeline, however, and she seemed off-put when Tucker described the act like it was eco-terrorism. Also, Haley made no attempt to criticize the federal response to the Covid-19 pandemic, masking, vaccine mandates, school closings, or censorship of unapproved views.

In other words, to me, the foundation of Haley’s platform is foreign intervention and government control—not domestic tranquility and individual freedom. Haley appears to support Biden’s proxy war and isn’t the person to put in charge if we want peace any time soon. While I can’t say she needs to exit the race now, she is not a candidate that is seeking to change the system or empower the people of any nation.

Kudos to The Blaze for having Tucker interview the current field of Republican presidential candidates. It’s worth watching the various interviews if you haven’t.