AP Explains: Trump keys on race and ethnicity in primary fight with Haley

(20 Jan 2024)
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Amherst, New Hampshire – 19 January 2024
1. Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley speaking with voters and reporters

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Atlanta, Georgia – 19 January 2024
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Bill Barrow, Associated Press Reporter:
“Donald Trump is escalating personal attacks on Nikki Haley based on her given name. Haley is the daughter of Indian immigrants. She was born in Bamberg, South Carolina in 1972, and they named her Nimarata Nikki both her legal names. But Trump has seized on Nimarata, as have some other conservatives in social media and online, in forums to mock Haley, and to add to Trump’s suggestion that she is not a natural born citizen and thus would not be eligible to serve.”

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Portsmouth, New Hampshire – 17 January 2024
3. President Donald Trump campaigning ahead of NH primary

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Atlanta, Georgia – 19 January 2024
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Bill Barrow, Associated Press Reporter:
“He spent years on social media, on Fox News as perhaps one of the lead voices in what we called the birther movement, the idea that Barack Obama was not a natural born citizen and not eligible to be president of the United States.”

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ARCHIVE: Washington, DC – 5 April 2016
5. STILL of President Barack Obama holding a meeting with Susan Rice and Vice President Joe Biden

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Atlanta, Georgia – 19 January 2024
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Bill Barrow, Associated Press Reporter:
“Trump built his credentials with conservatives, blasting the nation’s first Black president with these suggestions that he was not born a citizen of the United States. And now he’s recycling that that kind of idea about Nikki Haley, who, like Barack Obama, is a child of immigrants, has a name that reflects her heritage, but absolutely was born a natural born citizen in the United States.”

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Portsmouth, New Hampshire – 17 January 2024
7. Trump campaigning ahead of NH primary

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Atlanta, Georgia – 19 January 2024
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Bill Barrow, Associated Press Reporter:
“The fact that he is attacking Haley more aggressively clearly has to do with her being the most viable alternative. That doesn’t mean he isn’t still the overwhelming favorite for the nomination at this point. The Iowa results certainly prove that he is.”

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Amherst, New Hampshire – 19 January 2024
9. Haley speaking with voters and reporters

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Atlanta, Georgia – 19 January 2024
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Bill Barrow, Associated Press Reporter:
“It’s difficult to paint a broad brush on how the Republican Party or Republicans on their ground are reacting to something like this, because wherever Trump is concerned, it’s the nature of his candidacy and his popularity that he has such a loyal core that either believes in everything he says or at least will excuse the things he says.”

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Portsmouth, New Hampshire – 17 January 2024
11. Trump campaigning ahead of NH primary

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Atlanta, Georgia – 19 January 2024
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Bill Barrow, Associated Press Reporter:
“People in the middle, the people in the middle, or perhaps most important to the kind of coalition that Ambassador Haley is trying to build. How they react to this will will be telling and whether it allows her to say, hey, this is what I’ve been warning you about when I called him an agent of chaos, and he’s presiding over chaos. This is just one more example.”

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Portsmouth, New Hampshire – 17 January 2024

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