Nikki Haley suggests Trump may not be ‘mentally fit’ to be president after he seems to confuse her with Pelosi

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Former South Carolina Gov. and Republican candidate for president Nikki Haley on Saturday suggested that former President Trump may not be "mentally fit" after he seemed to confuse her with ex-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., while discussing the Jan. 6 riot.

"Last night Trump is at a rally and he’s going on and on, mentioning me multiple times as to why I didn’t take security during the Capitol riots. Why I didn’t handle Jan. 6 better. I wasn’t even in D.C. on Jan. 6. I wasn’t in office then," Haley told supporters at a rally in Keene, New Hampshire, in anticipation of the state's first-in-the-nation presidential primary Tuesday.

She continued, "They’re saying he got confused, that he was talking about something else, he’s talking about Nancy Pelosi. He mentioned me multiple times in that scenario."

She said she didn’t want to say anything "derogatory" about Trump, "but when you’re dealing with the pressures of the presidency, we can’t have someone else that we question whether they’re mentally fit to do this. We can’t," she added, referring to suggestions that President Biden isn’t mentally fit.

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While speaking in Concord, New Hampshire, Friday evening, Trump told his crowd, "By the way, they never report the crowd on Jan. 6. Nikki Haley, Nikki Haley, Nikki Haley. Do you know they