'Trump threw a temper tantrum'

View in browser  January 18, 2024       Stephen Collinson, Caitlin Hu, and Shelby Rose Haley calls out Trump's tantrums Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley is getting tougher on Donald Trump — just a little bit.    Haley, who served as the ex-president's ambassador to the United Nations, accused him of having a "temper tantrum" after he attacked her on immigration and started using her birth name, which reflects her South Asian heritage.   "I know Trump threw a temper tantrum about me last night. I heard that. I've seen the commercials you see. I will always tell you the truth," Haley said. "One of those things that my friend Trump said was that I didn't want to close the border. ... What I said is, I just don't want just a wall. We've got to do more than that."   "The second thing he is saying is I want to end Social Security. I've literally never said that. Literally never said that. He honestly thinks if he says something it just becomes true," she said.    Given that Trump was impeached twice, is facing 91 criminal charges and tried to overturn democracy to stay in power after losing the last election, you might think that Haley's rebukes are somewhat mild. The former South Carolina governor tends to group all of the above in a vague warning that "chaos" follows Trump around. And if she is trying to stay alive in the Republican nominating race, you'd think that she would be a bit tougher on her rival since Tuesday's New Hampshire primary may be her last real shot to take a stand. Also, while she takes umbrage at Trump's claims about her, she doesn't seem too worried about the Everest of falsehoods he piled up during four years in office and since.   Some pundits are wondering whether Haley is keeping it cool because she's eyeing a spot on Trump's ticket in the vice presidential spot.   But there's also this. Even those Republican voters who are open to considering someone other than Trump often say that they remember his presidency fondly — despite all that "chaos" Haley talks about.    If this primary race — and Trump's massive victory in Iowa on Monday night — taught us anything, it's that there are very few votes in the GOP for those who want to bring down Trump. Sign up for Meanwhile in America The world and America The US carried out another round of strikes against Houthis in Yemen   An Ecuadorian prosecutor investigating a TV station attack is assassinated   The US secretary of state had plane trouble    The Princess of Wales is in the hospital    Arnold Schwarzenegger was held at an airport after failing to declare a watch   Meanwhile in America ... there's a new twist in the saga of the defense secretary's hospital visit   Sheryl Sandberg is leaning out of Meta   And the mullet is back  'As scared as heck' Vice President Kamala Harris warned Wednesday that "we should all be scared" about the possibility of a second term for Trump.   "I am scared as heck, which is why I'm traveling our country. … We should all be scared. But as we know, and certainly this is a table of very powerful women – we don't run away from something when we're scared, we fight back against it," Harris said on "The View" on ABC. Today on the trail  The countdown is on to the second Republican nominating contest in New Hampshire on Tuesday.   Here are today's developments on the 2024 campaign trail    Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who came second in Iowa, seems to be all but giving up on the Granite State, where Haley is Trump's main opposition. He's moving a majority of his staff to South Carolina — the next critical primary state in February. He's back home in Florida on Thursday and will return to New Hampshire on Friday, then campaign in South Carolina over the weekend. President Joe Biden raised more than $1.6 million from grassroots donors in the 24 hours after Trump's landslide in Iowa, according to the campaign. The president raised more than $97 million for his campaign and the Democratic Party in the fourth fundraising quarter last year. A Maine judge on Wednesday told state election officials to wait for the US Supreme Court to rule on Trump's eligibility for the 2024 ballot. New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu, who is backing Haley, downplayed her third-place finish in Iowa and set expectations for a "strong second" in his state next week. Thanks for reading.   On Thursday, US President Joe Biden delivers remarks on his economic agenda in North Carolina. Oral arguments in the Minnesota Court of Appeals case for former police officer Derek Chauvin take place in Saint Paul. The 40th Sundance Film Festival kicks off in Park City and Salt Lake City. What did you think of today's email? Send us feedback: meanwhile@cnn.com   You are receiving this newsletter because you signed up for Meanwhile in America. To stop receiving this newsletter, unsubscribe or sign up to manage your CNN account   Learn more about the CNN app |  Get CNN web alerts  |  Sign up for a free CNN account   ® © 2024 Cable News Network. A Warner Bros. Discovery Company. All Rights Reserved. 1050 Techwood Drive NW, Atlanta, GA 30318