Nikki Haley questions whether Trump, 77, is ‘mentally fit’ for office after her mixes her up with Nancy Pelosi when speaking of Jan. 6 riots

Nikki Haley questioned whether Donald Trump is “mentally fit” to be president after he appeared to confuse her with former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and accused Haley of being in charge of security in the Capitol on the day of the January 6 insurrection.

“I’m not saying anything derogatory, but when you’re dealing with the pressures of a presidency, we can’t have someone else who we doubt is mentally fit to do this,” Haley said Saturday while campaigning in New York . Hampshire.

“I wasn’t even in DC on January 6th. I was not yet in office then. They say he got confused, he was talking about something else, he was talking about Nancy Pelosi. He mentioned me in that scenario multiple times,” she continued.

Trump, 77, previously accused Pelosi, who was speaker at the time, of being in charge of security on the day of the insurrection. Daily Mail relied on video clips to report on Haley’s comments after banning Daily Mail from reporting on her campaign following the exclusive report that Haley falsely denied cheating on her husband when she was accused of having two extramarital affairs during her 2010 South Carolina gubernatorial campaign.

Haley has stepped up her criticism of Trump with just four days to go before the first New Hampshire primary.

But the former president continues to have a double-digit lead in the polls. The latest poll from the Boston Globe and Suffolk University shows Trump with 53%, Haley with 36% and Ron DeSantis with 7%.

Additionally, Sen. Tim Scott endorsed Trump on Friday night, becoming the latest party official to endorse the former president. Scott is from Haley’s home state of South Carolina and she appointed him to his seat when she was governor.

Trump plans to further taunt Haley with his support of her state. At his meeting in Manchester on Saturday evening, he hosted South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster, the state’s lieutenant governor and a host of other senior officials, including the attorney general, treasurer and speaker of the House of Representatives. Delegates. Also appearing are U.S. Reps. Joe Wilson, William Timmons and Russell Fry.

But the former president raised eyebrows when he spoke at a rally in Concord, New Hampshire, on Friday. Trump repeatedly referred to Haley as being responsible for security during the riot at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021.

“By the way, they never report the crowd on January 6th. You know, Nikki Haley, Nikki Haley, Nikki Haley, you know, they – you know they destroyed all the information, all the evidence, everything, deleted and destroyed everything. All of them,” Trump claimed without substantiation.

“Because of a lot of things, like Nikki Haley being in charge of security, we offered her 10,000 people, soldiers, National Guard, whatever they want. They rejected it. They don’t want to talk about that. These are very dishonest people.”

Haley repeatedly used his gaffe during her campaign stops in New Hampshire on Saturday.

‘When you’re 80, that happens. You’re just not as sharp as you used to be,” she said. “We need to know that the person coming into this office has the stamina to be at the top of his game.”

President Joe Biden’s re-election campaign addressed the gaffe by posting a clip of Trump’s comment on X and noting, “A deeply confused Trump confuses Nancy Pelosi and Nikki Haley multiple times.”

Trump has long blamed Pelosi, a top Democrat, for the events of Jan. 6, when a mob of his supporters breached the Capitol and tried to stop the certification of Biden’s election victory.

Pelosi’s office has denied those claims, saying she had no more responsibility for Capitol security than then-Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Republican.

A spokesperson for Trump’s campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment from DailyMail.com on Saturday morning.

At his event in Concord on Friday, Trump spent much of his speech disparaging Haley, saying he would “probably” not select her as a running mate.

“She’s not presidential wood,” Trump said. “If I say that now, it probably means she won’t be elected vice president.”

‘I know her very well. She’s not strong enough. She’s not smart enough. And she wasn’t respected enough. She can’t do this job,” Trump said. “She will not be able to deal with President Xi. She won’t be able to deal with Putin.”

Ahead of Tuesday’s New Hampshire primary, Trump has stepped up his rhetorical attacks on Haley, his main challenger in the Granite State, where an open primary format gives independent voters an influential voice.

On his Truth Social platform, Trump lashed out at Haley on Friday, mocking her birth name in racially charged taunts.

Trump repeatedly called Haley, the daughter of immigrants from India via Canada, “Nimbra,” and her first name was apparently misspelled.

Haley, the former governor of South Carolina, was born in Bamberg, South Carolina, as Nimarata Nikki Randhawa.

Since childhood, she has always used her middle name ‘Nikki’. She adopted the surname ‘Haley’ upon her 1996 marriage to Michael Haley.

Trump called Haley “Nimbra” three times in the same post on Friday, saying she “doesn’t have what it takes.”

Trump’s post was an escalation of recent attacks in which he referenced Haley’s first name — though he previously misspelled it as “Nimrada.”

He has also falsely suggested that she is ineligible to run for president because her parents were not U.S. citizens when she was born in 1972. Haley, who was a U.S. citizen at birth, meets the Constitution’s citizenship requirements for the presidency.

Haley has dismissed Trump’s latest attacks as evidence that she is threatening his bid for a third consecutive nomination.

“I’ll let people decide what he means by his attacks,” Haley told reporters in New Hampshire on Friday when asked about Trump’s false claims that her race disqualifies her from the Oval Office.

“What we know is that he’s clearly insecure if he’s going to throw these tantrums, if he’s spending millions of dollars on TV. He is insecure, he knows something is wrong,” she added, according to the Associated Press.

New Hampshire will hold the nation’s first primary elections on Tuesday. Haley in particular could struggle to continue her campaign if she finishes a distant second to the former president.