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对前领导特朗普毫不手软，黑利：75岁以上的政客要做心理测试
天下事 2023年02月16日 12:01:41 来自北京市
美国前驻联合国大使黑利日前已宣布参加2024年的总统选举，她还对那些年过75岁的政客的能力提出质疑。
据美国Politico新闻网站2月15日报道，黑利15日在南卡罗来纳州的一场竞选集会上说：“我们将对国会的任期进行限制，我们要让75岁以上的政客接受强制性的心理测试。”
她还说：“我们准备好了。我们已经准备好摆脱过去的陈腐思想和褪色的名字，我们已经准备好迎接带领我们走向未来的新一代（领导）。美国的黄金时期还没有过去。只是我们的一些政客已经过时了。”
报道称，这些言论无疑是在攻击她唯一公开的党内对手——76岁的特朗普，以及80岁的美国拜登总统。
黑利说：“我们的事业是对的，但是我们没有赢得大多数美国人的信任。好吧，这一切要在今天结束。如果对失败感到厌倦了，就把你的信任寄托在新一代身上。如果你们不仅想作为一个政党赢得胜利，而且想作为一个国家赢得胜利，那就和我站在一起吧。”
据悉，黑利当地时间2月14日宣布竞选美国总统，由此成为第一位正式挑战她的“前老板”——美国前总统唐纳德·特朗普，角逐共和党提名的总统参选人。
黑利曾在2021年说过，如果特朗普参选，她就不会参与角逐。特朗普2月15日在接受福克斯新闻专访时说，他很高兴看到黑利参加2024年大选，她不用被过去的承诺束缚。
Nikki Haley calls for competency tests for politicians over 75 during campaign launch
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/02/15/nikki-haley-competency-tests-00083018
Haley, 51, repeatedly talked about leading America into the 21st century. “We’re ready." “In the America I see, the permanent politician will finally retire,” Haley said. 'I am running for president of the United States'
Nikki Haley takes shots at older politicians in 2024 announcement
By KELLY GARRITY 02/15/2023
Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley on Wednesday highlighted the need for generational change and called for mandatory competency tests for politicians older than 75 during a speech launching her 2024 presidential campaign.
“In the America I see, the permanent politician will finally retire,” said Haley, who served as U.N. ambassador during Donald Trump’s presidency. “We’ll have term limits for Congress. And mandatory mental competency tests for politicians over 75 years old.”
The remarks are an undeniable strike against her only declared opponent, 76-year-old Trump, as well as President Joe Biden, who at 80 is the oldest person to hold the office.
Ready to move past the stale ideas and faded names of the past, and we are more than ready for a new generation to lead us into the future,” she told the crowd gathered in Charleston, S.C. “America is not past our prime,” she added. “It’s just that our politicians are past theirs,” she added.
Haley officially announced her bid in a 3 1/2-minute video posted to Twitter on Tuesday that highlighted her accomplishments as governor and alluded to a need for new leadership in the GOP.
“Republicans have lost the popular vote in seven out of the last eight presidential elections. That has to change,” Haley said in the video.
On Wednesday, she reiterated that sentiment.
“Our cause is right, but we have failed to win the confidence of a majority of Americans,” she said. “Well, that ends today. If you’re tired of losing, put your trust in a new generation. And if you want to win not just as a party but as a country, stand with me.”
Haley, a first-generation Indian American, also highlighted her background as a woman of color, something likely to differentiate her in a GOP primary. If she wins the Republican nomination, she will be the first woman and first Asian American to do so.
“Every day we’re told America is flawed, rotten and full of hate,” Haley said on Wednesday. “Joe and Kamala even say America is racist. Nothing could be further from the truth. The American people know better. My immigrant parents know better.”
But being the first isn’t why she’s running, the former governor said.
“All kidding aside, this is not about identity politics. I don’t believe in that. And I don’t believe in glass ceilings, either,” Haley said. “I believe in creating a country where anyone can do anything and achieve their own American dream.”
“It is unthinkable that Americans would look at the sky and see a Chinese spy balloon looking back at us,” Haley added. “China’s dictators want to cover the world in communist tyranny. And we are the only ones who can stop them.”
Though only the second candidate to enter the 2024 presidential race, Haley is polling behind two potential rivals for the nomination — Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who has yet to say whether he’ll enter the race.
