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Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley slammed Minnesota Governor Tim Walz this week over his performance during the vice presidential debate against Sen. JD Vance (R-OH).

Haley made the remarks on her SiriusXM show “Nikki Haley Live” while analyzing Tuesday night’s debate on CBS News.

“Under Walz, Minnesota has been one of the few states to raise taxes, even having an $18 billion budget surplus. $18 billion budget surplus, and he raised taxes anyway,” Haley said. “Minnesota has the fifth highest top income tax rate in the country — 9.85%. Imagine paying 10% on your income. As a member of Congress, he voted against the 2017 tax cuts. Remember we talked that if those tax cuts expire, 62% of Americans are going to see their taxes go up.”

“On illegal immigration, not only has he allowed illegal immigrants to come into his state, he has allowed them to have driver’s licenses,” she continued. “He’s allowed them to have health insurance. He’s allowed them to get free college, all on the taxpayer’s dime.”

“He’s subsidized electric vehicles,” she added. “He has no statutory limits on abortion at any stage of pregnancy. We know regardless of what side of that debate you’re on, abortion up until the time of birth is something that most Americans can’t stomach. He passed a law that gets in the middle of family decisions when it comes to kids and transgender issues. That’s interesting for a guy that says, ‘Mind your own damn business.’”

She said the thing that freaked her out the most about Walz was when he said: “One person’s socialism is another person’s neighborliness.”

“That is the one that sends the chill up your spine,” Haley said. “Minnesota’s losing residents at a record pace, ranked sixth highest in America for a families moving out. You look at the George Floyd riots; we all saw the buildings burning. What is interesting is the mayor of Minneapolis called Walz and Walz declined his request to call in the National Guard.”

She later added that Vice President Kamala Harris’ decision to pick Walz was a damning indictment of her.

“We are seeing a Kamala Harris that is basically saying, ‘Fake it until you make it,’” she said. “And so she’s faking all her stances and doing 180s on all of them until the election. But the one decision she made was Tim Walz.”

Prominent figures from both major political parties criticized Democratic Minnesota Governor Tim Walz for appearing nervous during Tuesday night’s vice presidential debate in New York against Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio).

The vice presidential nominee faced Vance for the first and only time before the November election on CBS News. Veteran anchors Margaret Brennan and Norah O’Donnell moderated the discussion.

Left-wing media figures and outlets also panned Walz’s debate performance following the CBS-moderated event Tuesday evening, giving Vice President Kamala Harris’ running mate low marks across the board.

CNN’s Abby Phillips, Dana Bash, and Jake Tapper, notably, were all critical of Walz, with each of them alternately opining that he appeared to either lack debate prep or had far too much of it and was not quick enough on his feet to counter Vance’s many jabs at Harris.

At one point during post-debate analysis, Tapper even claimed that Vance is a “much more experienced” debater, a point that Bash said could be attributed to the fact that Walz — and Harris — have not done many media interviews.

“I think there was a clear lack of preparation and execution here,” anchor Abby Phillip said, noting how Vance managed to land some “punches.”

Bash had the opposite take. “I think he had too much preparation. He had so many lines that he was clearly trying to say,” she said. “I think the lack of interviews that he has done with national media, with local media — it showed he needed more.”

Tapper added that “JD Vance is much more experienced with this, at public speaking and defending himself and pivoting,” while host Anderson Cooper concluded that Walz seemed nervous on stage.

“It kind of reminded me of the June 27 debate, when Kamala Harris that night said of Joe Biden, ‘It was a slow start, but a strong finish,’” ABC News anchor Linsey Davis said regarding Walz’s debate against former President Donald Trump’s running mate. “And that’s how I felt Tim Walz kind of did tonight,” she added, per the New York Post.

Davis, who co-moderated the presidential debate on September 10 between Vice President Kamala Harris and Trump alongside David Muir, suggested that Vance was more “effective” at challenging Harris on Tuesday than Trump had been the previous month.

“I feel like that was really effective,” Davis said of Vance, who noted frequently during the debate that Harris has not pressed for any of the issues and policies she claims to support now.

“You know, to use Tim Walz, his own words, I mean, a lot about this debate tonight was, was weird,” she added. “There were comfortable, cringey moments, but overall, my take on this was that JD Vance needed to come away as that humble, likable guy from ‘Hillbilly Elegy.’ It seemed like he did perhaps get some points in that.”

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