Haley Fires Back at Biden Over His Criticism of Her Civil War Comments

GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley fired back at President Joe Biden on Jan. 8 for taking a shot at her for not initially naming slavery as a cause of the Civil War. “They embraced what is known as the ‘lost cause,’ the self-serving lie that the Civil War was not about slavery but about states’ rights. That was a lie, with terrible consequences,” said President Biden, referring to Confederates at a speech in South Carolina, where Ms. Haley was governor between 2011 and 2017. “Let me be clear for those who don’t seem to know: Slavery was the cause of the Civil War. There’s no negotiation about that,” he continued. “Now we’re living in an era of a second Lost Cause. This time, the lie is about the 2020 election, the election in which you made your voices heard and your power known.”...