'You're Just Scum': Nikki Haley Slams Vivek Ramaswamy for Going After Her Daughter for using TikTok, as nothing happened again in the GOP POTUS primary debate in Miami.
MIAMI –– Vivek Ramaswamy warned he’d be unconstrained at Wednesday night's debate, and unconstrained he was — leading to an intense moment when former Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley called him “just scum.”
Just minutes after first taking the stage, Ramaswamy went after three women: Haley, Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel and NBC News' Kristen Welker, who was one of the debate moderators.
“We got trounced last night in 2023. And I think that we have to have accountability in our party,” Ramaswamy said of the previous night's elections in Ohio, Virginia and Kentucky,
where Republicans suffered losses. “For that matter, Ronna, if you want to come onstage tonight, you want to look the GOP voters in the eye and tell them you resign, I will turn over my — yield my time to you."
But Ramaswamy kept up his focus on Haley, with the most intense moment coming when he went after her daughter. He said she had joined TikTok, even as Haley had criticized Ramaswamy at a previous debate for using the app despite its ties to China.
“She made fun of me for actually joining TikTok while her own daughter was actually using the app for a long time,” he said.
“Leave my daughter out of your voice,” Haley sneered.
“Just scum,” she added.
The attack came after Haley's dig at Ramaswamy at the second debate went viral.
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TikTok ran advertisements during commercial breaks before and after the sparring between Haley and Ramaswamy.
Driving the news: The Republican presidential candidates, except Ramaswamy, fiercely condemned the video app during the debate.
- Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who supports a TikTok ban, said that he is concerned about the data that China is getting from users on the platform and what it is doing to "pollute the minds" of young Americans.
TikTok has been banned from government devices, the White House announced earlier this year.
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