Jackie Calmes: Nikki Haley calls herself the GOP's 'new generation' leader, but it's still Trump's party
by Jackie Calmes, Los Angeles Times
Feb 18, 2023
3 minutes
"New" isn't necessarily better. Sometimes it's not even new.
Rarely have those truisms been more true than in the last two weeks, when Sarah Huckabee Sanders and Nikki Haley offered themselves as exemplars of "a new generation" of Republican leadership.
Sanders, the truth-challenged former Trump press secretary turned Arkansas governor, did it Feb. 7 in the Republican rebuttal to President Biden's State of the Union speech. Three times she said "it's time" for new leadership, and she noted that, at 40, she was half as old as Biden, the nation's oldest president.
A week later, Tuesday and Wednesday.
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