{"id":4265,"date":"2024-01-29T09:46:55","date_gmt":"2024-01-29T01:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tingchao.xyz\/?p=4265"},"modified":"2024-01-29T09:47:00","modified_gmt":"2024-01-29T01:47:00","slug":"haley-congress-has-become-most-privileged-nursing-home-in-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tingchao.xyz\/?p=4265","title":{"rendered":"Haley: Congress has become \u2018most privileged nursing home\u2019 in US"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"461\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/tingchao.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/531.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4266\" style=\"width:699px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tingchao.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/531.png 461w, https:\/\/tingchao.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/531-300x214.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 461px) 100vw, 461px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley on Sunday mocked Congress as the \u201cmost privileged nursing home\u201d in the United States in her repeated call for term limits and mental competency tests for elected officials older than a certain age.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDon\u2019t you think it\u2019s finally time we had term limits in Washington, D.C.?\u201d Haley said during a rally in Conway, S.C., on Sunday. \u201cDon\u2019t you think we need to have mental competency tests for anyone over the age of 75?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cNow let me say this, I\u2019m not being disrespectful when I say that. We all know 75-year-olds that can run circles around us,\u201d she continued. \u201cAnd then we know Joe Biden, Congress has become the most privileged nursing home in the country,\u201d prompting laughs from those in the audience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Haley said it is important American voters know that those who make decisions on the future of the economy and national security are \u201cat the top of their game.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Haley, a former United Nations ambassador, has<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/4366153-haley-biden-trump-campaign-ad-too-old-new-generation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&nbsp;repeatedly taken aim<\/a>&nbsp;at her political opponents\u2019 ages, including President Biden, who is 81 and the oldest sitting U.S. president, and former President Trump, who is 77.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Haley, 52, in September<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/senate\/4185157-haley-stresses-younger-generation-needs-to-take-over-in-response-to-mcconnell-freeze-up\/\" target=\"_blank\">&nbsp;argued for a \u201cyounger generation\u201d<\/a>&nbsp;of congressional leaders following an incident when Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) appeared to freeze up while addressing reporters. Haley at the time said it is not a problem isolated to one party, but is it a \u201ccongressional problem\u201d on both sides of the aisle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her calls for mental competency tests were renewed last week after Trump appeared to mix Haley up for former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) when discussing the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack. Shortly after the mix-up,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/4427991-haley-presses-trump-to-debate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Haley suggested<\/a>&nbsp;the former president\u2019s mental fitness is \u201cnot at the same level\u201d as it was when he won the White House in 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A day later, Trump&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/4422498-trump-haley-cognitive-test\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">claimed he would beat Haley<\/a>&nbsp;on a cognitive test.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trump holds a nearly 57-point lead over Haley in national polling, according to an&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/elections2024.thehill.com\/national\/gop_primary_averages\">aggregation of polls<\/a>&nbsp;by The Hill and Decision Desk HQ. Despite the early losses, Haley has maintained she intends to stay in the race as Trump\u2019s main challenger until at least Super Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Haley, however,&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/4434165-haley-sidesteps-question-on-whether-she-needs-to-win-south-carolina\/\" target=\"_blank\">sidestepped questions<\/a>&nbsp;earlier Sunday about whether a win in her home state of South Carolina is \u201cdo or die.\u201d According to a polling index by&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/elections2024.thehill.com\/south-carolina\/gop_primary_south_carolina\" target=\"_blank\">The Hill\/Decision Desk HQ<\/a>, Haley trails Trump in the South Carolina primary race by about 31 points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley on Sunday mocked Congress as the \u201cmost privileged nursing home\u201d in the United States in her repeated call for term limits and mental competency tests for elected officials older than a certain age. \u201cDon\u2019t you think it\u2019s finally time we had term limits in Washington, D.C.?\u201d Haley said during a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4266,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1901,1902,1903],"class_list":["post-4265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","tag-haley","tag-mental","tag-when"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.0 - 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