Nikki Haley's Misleading "Moderate" Reputation | The Daily Show

there's been a lot of talk about Nikki Haley this week and how she's staying in the race despite having worse odds than the New York Mets winning next year's Super Bowl I have to say I'm actually glad she's staying in the race because even if you don't agree with her politics she's still really pisses Donald Trump off and that's a beautiful thing she is clearly on his enemies list along with the law and waistbands but she's not just the only Trump alternative in the GOP race according to the med

ia she's also the only moderate one Nikki Haley has sort of this moderate old school republicanism she's become the candidate of the moderates a moderate candidate like Nikki Haley who is increasingly an outsider in the Republican party yes obviously Nikki Haley is a moderate it's something that everybody knows like Joe Biden is old or RFK is a biohazard or Tim Scott is crying on the inside it's just a fact that nobody disputes but is it a fact is Nikki Haley the moderate in the race because whe

n you actually take a look at her policies they aren't that different from Trump she also wants to build the wall she also wants Mass deportations she's also opposed to Obamacare and the Paris climate Accords and in fact on abortion she's even more extreme than Trump she supports a national ban after 6 weeks before most women even know that they're pregnant at 6 weeks the symptoms are fatigue and stomach issues and women can't take a pregnancy test every time they get bubble guts it's not that s

he doesn't care about women's issues it's that she has a very UNM moderate idea of what women's issues are the idea that we have biological boys playing in girl Sports it is the women's issue of our time really Nicky that's the women's issue of our time not abortion access or equal pay or even how to part your hair so teens don't bully you never thought I'd say this but Nikki Haley is so bad at knowing what women actually want I think maybe her husband should order for her at restaurants so most

of her policies aren't more moderate than Trump and if you ask her she herself doesn't identify as a moderate on the campaign Trail Haley has made it very clear that she says she's not a moderate I have been a conservative fighter all my life I was a Tea Party candidate when when I became governor and we passed one of the toughest illegal immigration laws in the country we passed pro-life bills we took on the unions and we took on Obama when it came to the unions the Syrian refugees and everyth

ing in between guys she says she's not a moderate believe women so again if she doesn't say she's a moderate and her policies aren't moderate why is everyone calling her a moderate I guess it could be her demeanor she's certainly the only candidate speaking at a moderate volume you got Trump screaming so loud AT&T satellites are exploding and then you got Biden at every press conference whispering to the Ghost of Christmas PA just using a proper inside voice is going to seem like a breath of fre

sh air but that can't be all of it when it comes down to there's only one real difference between Nikki Haley and Donald Trump that's getting her this label do I think Joe Biden is the legitimate president yes wow what a reasonable middle-of the road answer the man who won the election won the election but that's where we're at that is the big split in the Republican party today do you think Joe Biden won the election or did you take a on Nancy Pelosi's desk but the media is not used to discussi

ng democracy versus fascism they're used to discussing left versus right so they put Donald Trump on the far right and anybody who didn't who didn't storm the capital becomes a moderate but that means that any Republican no matter what their views are gets labeled as a moderate just because they believe in democracy like Georgia Governor Brian Kemp he's been called the most conservative governor in Georgia's history but he also doesn't think the election was stolen so now people call him a moder

ate or Liz Cheney she denies climate change she's anti-abortion and she loves bombing other countries just as much as her dad yeah she's a nepo bomber she loves bombing other countries so much she thought Oppenheimer was the first season of an ABC sitcom but because she says that Trump lost guess what she's called you've got Liz Cheney being a you know a female voice in the Republican Party demanding a a more moderate approach the thoughtful moderate Pro Constitution Republicans likel is Cheney

and you might be wondering why does it even matter so what of the media mistakenly calls some conservatives moderates sometimes I call my husband my ex-boyfriend's name it's fine he barely notices he left me but it does matter because the word moderate means much more than just believing Joe Biden won the election most people still think that it means not extreme or willing to compromise so when the media attaches this label to candidates who support abortion bans and endless Wars that makes tho

se belie belief sound moderate but they're not and the media should not be labeling them as moderates just because they passed the low bar of not overthrowing the government I'm sorry I'm sorry if I'm getting emotional about this but I just believe that having biological conservatives competing in moderate Sports that is the women's issue of our [Applause] time