Republican GOP hopeful and candidate hoping the Base doesn’t target people with androgynous names next Nikki Haley became the first Republican of note, either officeholder or not, to castigate Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville for the latter’s Senatorial holds on scores of military officers’ promotions.
“For my husband who’s serving overseas, and for all those military men and women, the idea that this is what they’re looking back and seeing, and this is what they are dealing with on top of the stresses of keeping themselves safe and being away from their families, it’s wrong,” Haley said on Hugh Hewitt’s radio show, according to ABC News. “They’re, you know, dangling these promotions out there and using them as fodder.”
Tuberville has put a hold on flag and senior officers for a Pentagon announcement that it would reimburse members of the military and their families who have to travel to obtain a safe abortion where the procedure is legal; it’s the same policy for any medical procedure. A self-declared pro-lifer, Tuberville’s protest has resulted in the first vacancy at the head of the Marines in a century and a vacancy at the chairmanship for the Joint Chief of Staff.