2024 hopeful Nikki Haley tells DailyMail.com the U.S. needs to quit the gender and equity push and switch to ‘wartime mode’ to produce more ammunition after Biden admitted stockpile is low

2024 presidential hopeful Nikki Haley is urging the Biden administration to stop pushing for gender and equality and switch to “war mode” to produce more munitions after Biden admitted last week that the US stockpile almost finished.

President Biden admitted during an on-air CNN interview last week that Ukraine is “running out” of ammunition amid its war with Russia, adding that “we are running out of ammunition.” He also defended his reversal decision to supply lethal cluster munitions to Ukraine.

Former UN ambassador Haley told DailyMail.com at the Christians United for Israel (CUFI) summit that while US ammunition supplies had been running low for “some time,” it was “badly done” for the president to add on live TV. to give.

“We need to be in what would be a war mode,” she said, which means producing munitions faster, making sure stocks are full and up to date so the country is prepared in case of conflict.

Haley, who served as governor of South Carolina from 2011 to 2017, said the key to resupply is taking down the “bureaucracy’ within the Ministry of Defence.

“We need to stop letting them play favorites at certain companies, we need to start modernizing our military, and they need to stop all the chaos, like the gender pronoun classes,” she told DailyMail.com.

“We need to make sure we do everything we can to make sure we have the strongest and best military in the world.”

After the CNN interview aired, a White House official appeared to reverse the president’s comment.

“The military has specific requirements for the numbers of weapons systems and ammunition we have in our reserves in case of emergencies or military conflict,” a White House official said in a statement. “Everything we send to Ukraine goes beyond that. So the US itself will not run out of ammunition.’

Haley also answered a question from DailyMail.com about the timing for Ukraine’s entry into the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).

Biden said last week ahead of his NATO international tour that the time is not right for Ukraine to join the group.

If Ukraine joins now, “we are at war with Russia,” Biden warned.

However, Haley says now is the time – “the invitation should be extended to Ukraine.”

“They have shown that they have great military power, they have the passion, they have already defended the Europeans by defending themselves alone. So I think they justified an invitation because it wouldn’t change what the United States is doing.”

We don’t have to give extra money, Haley added, and the US doesn’t have to put troops on the ground either.

“But it would just go ahead and show Putin that ‘look, this isn’t going anywhere.’ This encourages Putin because we are slow to issue an invitation to Ukraine or not.’

Haley said if the invitation had already gone to Ukraine, it would have sent a “message to Putin” that “it’s time to start looking for an exit strategy.”

She said the Biden administration was “clumsy” by not doing this.

Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelensky said so ‘absurd’ if Ukraine is not offered membership, but the US declined for the billions in aid that his country received.

President Biden admitted last week that the US is ‘low’ on ammunition during an on-air CNN interview

On whether Asian countries, including Taiwan, should be able to follow NATO, Haley said, “We’ll have to wait and see.”

“I think the focus is now on Ukraine. I think the focus is on making sure Taiwan has the equipment, ammunition and training they need.

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“The faster we strengthen Taiwan, the less likely China will invade. But we also have to remember that a victory for Russia is a victory for China,” she told DailyMail.com.

“And that’s why it’s so important for Ukraine to win, because if Ukraine wins, it will send the biggest message to China in terms of invading Taiwan than anything we could do.

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In her keynote speech at CUFI later Monday, Haley vowed to continue supporting Israel and restoring America’s “rightful place in the world” if elected president.

“We need a leader who will stand by our friends and stand up to our enemies,” Haley said to the applause of the crowd.

“And we must have a president who stands with Israel – without excuses!”