Nikki Haley’s 2020 Tweet Thanking Bill Gates Draws Jeers from Conservatives

January 17, 2024 Mark Wolf US 0

Following her third-place finish in the Iowa caucuses on Monday, an old tweet from Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley could come back to vex her campaign.

In the resurfaced tweet posted on April 6, 2020, Haley cheered Bill Gates for putting up some of his billions to fund the production of COVID vaccines.

“Thank you [Bill Gates] for donating billions of dollars to construct factories that will manufacture the seven most promising vaccines,” the former South Carolina governor posted. “This will keep us from losing any time as potential vaccines move through the clinical trial process.”

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Many conservatives, Donald Trump supporters, and detractors of the former UN ambassador blasted Haley for her praise of the man who is often seen as a villain by those on the right.

Comedienne Roseanne Barr, for one, jumped on her X account on Tuesday to laugh at Haley, especially in light of her blowout loss to Trump in Iowa.

TV personality Mindy Robinson called Haley a “Deep State war pig.”

Another X user reminded her followers that Gates wanted to have governments hand out vaccine passports to prevent unvaccinated people from traveling.

Many others piled onto Haley’s 2020 tweet.

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Haley also took heat in the aftermath of Monday’s caucuses for telling her supporters that “Iowa made this Republican primary a two-person race,” even though she came in third.

Trump was by far the top choice of Iowa Republican caucus-goers. He won by nearly 30 points with 51 percent of the vote, giving him the biggest margin of victory in caucus history.

In second place was Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who beat prognostications by winning 21.2 percent of the vote. Haley, meanwhile, won 19.1 percent.

The results also drove candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, who came in fourth, to suspend his campaign. He then immediately endorsed Trump.

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