Trump PAC says 'rapists' and 'drug traffickers' are coming over the border and 'poisoning our country' in new ad attacking Nikki Haley for refusing to call illegal immigrants 'criminals' with seven days until Iowa
- New attack ad calls Haley 'Too weak – too liberal – to fix the border'
- PAC's ad uses Haley's 2015 comments urging not to be 'disrespectful'
- “We don't need to talk about them as criminals,” she said
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Former President Donald Trump's Super PAC has revived its explosive 2015 statement that “migrant rapists” were flooding into the country, this time in a new attack ad that went after Republican primary rival Nikki Haley.
The attack ad shows migrants gathering at the border and then calls out Repiufor for refusing to call people jumping the border “criminals.”
'Drug traffickers. Rapists. Poisoning our country. But Nikki Haley refused to call illegal immigrants 'criminals,'” the female host said.
The advertisement by the pro-Trump Make America Great Again, Inc. super PAC then plays a short clip of Haley saying, “We don't need to talk about them as criminals. They are not.'
“Illegals are criminals, Nikki – that's what illegal means,” the announcer fires back.
A new pro-Trump PAC attack ad criticizes Nikki Haley for past immigration comments, in which she said: 'We don't need to talk about them as criminals'
The clipping is from Haley's 2015 remarks at the Aspen Institute, where she called for being a “country of laws” and building a wall, but then said “we don't have to be disrespectful” when describing people who have “a heart have, too.'
The ad continues, “Haley even stood up to Trump's wall. And Haley repeatedly pushed for amnesty for illegals… Nikki Haley. Too weak – too liberal – to fix the border.'
The attack comes just a week before the Iowa Caucuses, where Trump has a substantial lead over all his Republican rivals, including Haley. But she snuck up on him in New Hampshire, where the nation's first primary will take place later this month.
Haley trailed Trump by more than 30 points in a Fox Business Iowa poll released last week.
It comes in a race where illegal immigration will be a top issue in the general election, with 300,000 migrants processed across the border in December.
Trump has been campaigning for tough talks on immigration for years, including 2015 comments in which he said Mexico was sending “rapists” across the border
Recent polls show Haley trailing Trump by 30 points in Iowa, but he is being chased in New Hampshire
The comments about “rapists” in the ad echo Trump's incendiary line at the 2015 launch of his successful 2016 campaign as he targeted Mexico.
'They bring drugs. They bring crime. They're rapists. And some of them, I guess, are good people,” Trump said.
Haley's comments from 2015, highlighted by the MAGA war room, were as follows: 'I think what we have to remember, and I have always believed, is that we are a country of laws, that is what makes us strong. We must always be a country of laws. So it is incredibly frustrating for many people when they see that illegal immigrants can encounter each other. It's really amazing that after all these years, DC still hasn't figured out how to build a wall. It really is, after all they spend.”
“That said, we are a country of immigrants. I am a proud daughter of Indian parents who reminded us every day how blessed we are to live in this country. They hate it when people come here illegally. But let's not forget that these people who want to come here, also want to come here for a better life,” she said.
'They also have children. They also have a heart. So we don't have to be disrespectful. We don't have to talk about them as criminals; they are not. They are families who want a better life, and they want to come here. What we need to do is make sure that we have a set of laws that we follow, and that we enforce them.