TIME Article RatingThe Role Nikki Haley's 2015 Decision to Remove the Confederate Flag Could Play in Her Presidential Run
Feb 14, 2023 View Original Article
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| "Mass shootings have come and gone with little more than bickering between Republicans and Democrats about gun laws, and Confederate monuments have become ammunition in the culture wars." | Negative | -32% Liberal |
| "But the official suggests that Haley could be vulnerable on cultural and racial issues, including attacks portraying her as liberal on the Black Lives Matter movement." | Negative | -44% Liberal |
| "Even Haley has acknowledged the politics of the decision have shifted, and she faced accusations during the Trump presidency, during which she served as ambassador to the United Nations, of revising her stance on the Confederate flag." | Negative | -72% Liberal |
| "Soon after Haley made her aouncement Tuesday morning, Trump posted on TRUTH Social, Doing great in poll numbers." | Positive | 54% Conservative |
| "Soon after Haley made her aouncement Tuesday morning, Trump posted on TRUTH Social, Doing great in poll numbers." | Positive | 54% Conservative |
| "Nikki Haley visits Haity at Fox News Chael Studios on January 20, 2023 in New York City." | Positive | 14% Conservative |
| "But the show of unity Haley achieved in 2015 might be even harder to fathom today." | Positive | 14% Conservative |
| "When evil did come, Haley says, her voiceover interspersed with clips of Mother Emanuel, We turned away from fear, toward God and the values that still make our country the freest and greatest in the world." | Positive | 12% Conservative |
| "In 2016, Trump won the state's crowded primary with nearly a third of the vote, and handily won the state's general elections in both 2016 and 2020." | Positive | 8% Conservative |
| "According to one South Carolina Republican strategist, Haley's decision on the Confederate flag is starting to become a distant memory." | Positive | 6% Conservative |
| "That decision Haley made eight years ago embodies both the strengths and vulnerabilities of her presidential candidacy, which she launched Tuesday morning, becoming the first major challenger to former President Donald Trump in the Republican primary." | Positive | 4% Conservative |
| "That decision Haley made eight years ago embodies both the strengths and vulnerabilities of her presidential candidacy, which she launched Tuesday morning, becoming the first major challenger to former President Donald Trump in the Republican primary." | Positive | 4% Conservative |
| "A South Carolina poll conducted last month by the Trafalgar Group indicated a significant share of the state's voters supported Trump over Haley, with the margin depending on which other candidates join the race." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "A South Carolina poll conducted last month by the Trafalgar Group indicated a significant share of the state's voters supported Trump over Haley, with the margin depending on which other candidates join the race." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "Where Trump has often doubled down on right-wing talking points and sown division in moments of racial unrest, arguably the defining moment of Haley's governorship involved finding common ground between members of both parties to remove what many see as a racist symbol." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "Where Trump has often doubled down on right-wing talking points and sown division in moments of racial unrest, arguably the defining moment of Haley's governorship involved finding common ground between members of both parties to remove what many see as a racist symbol." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "There's a pocket of Trump's base who probably still love the flag, Stroman says." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "After the service, Haley told her team she intended to call for the removal of the Confederate flag from the capitol, according to Rob Godfrey, then her deputy chief of staff." | Negative | -4% Liberal |
| "Following the tragedy, it was really Nikki Haley's leadership that got it over the line -- other governors had tried and failed, says Alex Stroman, who previously served as executive director of the South Carolina GOP." | Negative | -6% Liberal |
| "But Haley suggested that it was the country that had changed." | Negative | -6% Liberal |
| "Haley does not mention the Confederate flag in her aouncement video, but does reference her leadership during the shooting." | Negative | -10% Liberal |
| "But those people were not going to vote for Nikki Haley anyway." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| "Even if Haley does field attacks on the Confederate flag, others say they are unlikely to erode her support." | Negative | -18% Liberal |
| "In a Washington Post opinion piece days later, Haley said she also mentioned some South Carolinians' positive feelings towards the flag the day she called for its removal." | Negative | -18% Liberal |
| "In the wake of the 2015 mass shooting that killed nine Black churchgoers at Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina, Nikki Haley, then the state's governor, attended service there." | Negative | -22% Liberal |
| "A former Trump Administration official says questions about the Confederate flag no longer divide the party and candidates shouldn't attack Haley on the decision." | Negative | -22% Liberal |
| "Haley herself touched on those controversies in her aouncement video." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| "I don't think Trump is going to attack her for that, the former official says." | Negative | -28% Liberal |
| "The Trump campaign did not respond to a request for comment." | Negative | -28% Liberal |
| "adding that his critics would step up attacks in the hope that I will be damaged enough to allow a RINO, or Biden, to 'slip through the cracks.'" | Negative | -34% Liberal |
| "Haley may use her Confederate flag decision and the aftermath of the Charleston shooting to draw contrasts with Trump." | Negative | -42% Liberal |
| "Haley may use her Confederate flag decision and the aftermath of the Charleston shooting to draw contrasts with Trump." | Negative | -42% Liberal |
| "But the official suggests that Haley could be vulnerable on cultural and racial issues, including attacks portraying her as liberal on the Black Lives Matter movement." | Negative | -20% Liberal |
| "In 2019, Haley drew controversy when she told conservative commentator Gle Beck that the Charleston mass shooter had hijacked the meaning of the flag, which she said some South Carolininans saw as a symbol of service, sacrifice and heritage." | Negative | -46% Liberal |
| "In 2019, Haley drew controversy when she told conservative commentator Gle Beck that the Charleston mass shooter had hijacked the meaning of the flag, which she said some South Carolininans saw as a symbol of service, sacrifice and heritage." | Negative | -46% Liberal |
| "Even Haley has acknowledged the politics of the decision have shifted, and she faced accusations during the Trump presidency, during which she served as ambassador to the United Nations, of revising her stance on the Confederate flag." | Negative | -54% Liberal |
| "Even Haley has acknowledged the politics of the decision have shifted, and she faced accusations during the Trump presidency, during which she served as ambassador to the United Nations, of revising her stance on the Confederate flag." | Negative | -54% Liberal |
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Contributing sentiments towards policy:
34% : Mass shootings have come and gone with little more than bickering between Republicans and Democrats about gun laws, and Confederate monuments have become ammunition in the culture wars.28% : But the official suggests that Haley could be vulnerable on cultural and racial issues, including attacks portraying her as liberal on the Black Lives Matter movement.
14% : Even Haley has acknowledged the politics of the decision have shifted, and she faced accusations during the Trump presidency, during which she served as ambassador to the United Nations, of revising her stance on the Confederate flag.
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