Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley has termed the US Senate “the most privileged nursing home in the country”. Her comments came while she was speaking to Fox News, a day after Mitch McConnell, the 81-year-old Republican leader in the Senate, suffered a second freeze in a month while speaking to reporters in Kentucky.
“What I will say is, right now, the Senate is the most privileged nursing home in the country,” Nikki Haley said.
“I mean, Mitch McConnell has done some great things and he deserves credit. But you have to know when to leave,” she said.
On Wednesday, McConnell froze up for more than 30 seconds during a public appearance before he was escorted away, the second such incident in little more than a month, a clip from an NBC News affiliate showed.
McConnell was responding to questions from reporters after an event with the Northern Kentucky Chamber of Commerce in Covington when he froze up, staring into space and not responding to reporters and others nearby. The incident raised fresh questions among Republican and Democratic members of Congress about some of their aging colleagues.
On the same, Nikki Haley said, “No one should feel good about seeing (McConnell’s freezes) any more than we should feel good about seeing Dianne Feinstein, any more than we should feel good about a lot of what’s happening or seeing Joe Biden’s decline.”
Feinstein, 90, is a Democrat and the senior senator from California. Her health and mental capacity are long in question. She has said she will retire next year.
Biden, 80, is the oldest president ever elected and would be 86 by the end of his second term if he wins re-election.
“I wouldn’t care if they did [tests] over the age of 50,” Haley told Fox News.
“But these people are making decisions about our national security. They’re making decisions about our economy, on the border. We need to know they’re at the top of their game. You can’t say that right now, looking at Congress,” she said.
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