Nikki Haley (R), who officially announced that she will be running for President in 2024 against Donald Trump, immediately called on Wednesday for mandatory “mental competency tests” for politicians older than 75, which she well knows would require her former boss and Joe Biden to take one.
Speaking at a rally in Charleston, S.C., kicking off her 2024 White House bid, Haley ran through a litany of political promises, including enacting term limits for members of Congress and cracking down on illegal immigration.
But it was a vow to impose mandatory cognitive tests on older officeholders that really struck a cord during her campaign announcement: that the United States needs a younger leader after previously electing two of the oldest men to ever occupy the White House.
“In the America I see, the permanent politician will finally retire,” Haley said. “We’ll have term limits for Congress and mandatory mental competency tests for politicians over 75 years old.”
Haley appeared on Fox News to set the record straight that she wasn’t personally attacking Donald Trump with her call to test candidates over 75 and told Brian Kilmeade “I have no reason to think he [Trump] wouldn’t do well this time.”