2024 presidential candidate Nikki Haley took shots at Biden and Trump by suggesting mandatory mental-competency tests for officeholders who have passed their 75th birthday. But there are important Republicans, like Chuck Grassley, she may offend.
Nikki Haley kicked off her presidential campaign with a speech in Charleston on Wednesday, one day after announcing her 2024 bid with a vague and sloppy video. During her speech, the former South Carolina governor and United Nations ambassador offered some more specific ideas for encouraging the transition to the “new generation of leadership” she professes to represent. One Haley suggestion is nearly as geriatric as the old generation of leaders she would like to push toward the exits: congressional term limits. But another is a bit edgier: mental-competency tests for elderly politicians.
“In the America I see, the permanent politician will finally retire,” Haley said per Politico. “We’ll have term limits for Congress.
