US presidential hopeful Haley fails to say slavery caused Civil War
Al Jazeera
The GOP presidential contender later amended her response to a question from an attendee at a campaign event.
Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley has come under fire after failing to mention slavery when asked about the causes of the US Civil War, in which a coalition of pro-slavery southern states attempted to secede from the US.
At a campaign event on Wednesday evening, Haley was asked about the causes of the Civil War by an attendee. Democrats and political rivals slammed her response, which she has since amended.
“In the year 2023, it’s astonishing to me that you answer that question without mentioning the word ‘slavery’,” the attendee remarked on Wednesday after Haley gave an answer focused on “how government was going to run”.
The former South Carolina governor has since clarified her response.
“Of course, the Civil War was about slavery,” Haley said on Thursday in an effort to correct the omission.
