Nikki Haley Spins Heads With ‘Preposterous Bulls**t’ Claim About ‘Wokeness'

The 2024 GOP presidential candidate's comments at the Conservative Political Action Conference were slammed as "unspeakable" and "absurd."

Reporter, HuffPost

Republican 2024 presidential candidate Nikki Haley raised eyebrows with her attack on so-called “wokeness” at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Maryland on Friday.

“Wokeness is a virus more dangerous than any pandemic, hands down,” declared Haley, the former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and GOP governor of South Carolina.

Watch the video here:

Nikki Haley: "Wokeness is a virus more dangerous than any pandemic, hands down" pic.twitter.com/YPRrxQ4P6a
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 3, 2023

Critics on Twitter scratched their heads over the claim.

They quickly reminded Haley how COVID-19 has so far killed more than 1.1 million people in the United States alone.

What an unspeakable thing to say. Over a million Americans dead… https://t.co/mTbDqpT3FB
— Stephanie Grace (@stephgracela) March 4, 2023

“Wokeness” is “ more dangerous than any pandemic”? Really?

TRUE—IF you FEAR a multiracial America more than you MOURN 1,130,000+ Americans dead from #Covid. SMH https://t.co/L5F7kAZ8fT
— Rev. & Prof. Cornell William Brooks (@CornellWBrooks) March 3, 2023

Yeah, given that Covid has killed more than 1.1m Americans, I'm pretty sure this is... wrong? I mean, maybe my frame of reference is off or something. 🤷♂️ https://t.co/LIDMESnNnb
— Glen O'Hara (@gsoh31) March 3, 2023

How many people died of wokeness because millions of people have died of COVID https://t.co/EFHDmMIGvE
— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) March 3, 2023

COVID-19 was the No. 3 cause of death in the United States last year (400,000+). Wokeness didn't make the list. https://t.co/UdJXz8OIZ8
— Nick Sabato (@NickSabatoGNN) March 3, 2023

Words no longer mean anything. https://t.co/z5clazJaPe
— Miles Kahn (@mileskahn) March 4, 2023

White Supremacy is the virus she’s shedding. https://t.co/laFk6BRs9T
— Morgan J. Freeman (@mjfree) March 4, 2023

This will make my late friend's teenage sons feel better to know that wokeness is more dangerous than the Covid that killed their dad. The GOP has no bottom. https://t.co/YTBuGHoFpe
— (((DeanObeidallah))) (@DeanObeidallah) March 3, 2023

1,1 m Americans died during the Covid pandemic.

Have more than 1.100.000 people died of « wokeness » ? https://t.co/7cG4n0S8OD
— Philippe Corbé (@PhilippeCorbe) March 3, 2023

Okay except they’ve never acknowledged COVID as dangerous. https://t.co/cPNruoA7pj
— Geek Girl Diva (@geekgirldiva) March 3, 2023

I missed the part where "wokeness" killed over a million people in the US and millions of others world wide.

Nikki Haley and these so-called moderate Republicans are just as awful as their far-right cousins. https://t.co/D3oehGxBhc
— Britni Danielle (@BritniDWrites) March 3, 2023

The price of competing in the GOP primary is saying preposterous bullshit like wokeness is worse than a pandemic that killed over a million Americans https://t.co/e47IC1Su8u
— Christian Schneider (@Schneider_CM) March 4, 2023

Has wokeness killed 1.1 million Americans? This is absurd. What an insult to those who have lost a loved one, to those who lost jobs and businesses, and to those suffering long Covid. This rightwing PC stuff is getting ridiculous. https://t.co/1wNMKFRNkg
— David Corn (@DavidCornDC) March 4, 2023

It’s true! Wokeness has literally caused more deaths than COVID, the Plague of Justinian and the Black Death combined. It’s so much more dangerous than those. Yes. These are just facts. https://t.co/ln6XPomuQj
— Lowering the Bar (@loweringthebar) March 4, 2023