a.m., the flag and the pole came down. so you have talked about growing up in south carolina as a quote, brown girl in a black and white world. what was that like to you in addition to the story you just told? it was a small rural southern town, two stop lights, and you couldn t think of doing something wrong without somebody telling your mom. they didn t know who we were or what we were or why we were there. i remember when i would get teased on the playground. i would come home and my mom would say your job is not to show them how you are different but how you are similar. it s amazing how the country should take my mom s advice right now. we will have more with presidential candidate nikki haley when we come back right after these messages.
election officials, more than 60 failed legal challenges. after january 6, you said about voters who believed trump s conspiracy theories, quote, we ve got a lot of work to do. they ve been lied to by everybody, unquote. how clearly are you going to state this to voters on the campaign trail? i think it s important that voters want to have election integrity. that s the biggest thing. and i ve seen when i was at the united nations, there s nothing worse than when a country and their citizens don t trust the election system. so, when you look at what hap happened, you know, we had mail-out balloting that was happening. we know there was harvesting that was happening. you had secretaries of state that did things without approval from their legislature. those are pretty serious. what we ve seen happen in states is they ve started to pass election integrity laws, which we need to have. and i think that s really important. and i ve said all of what happened, none of that would have chan
we prioritize. we know how to get things done. honestly, we ve let guys do it for a while. it might be time for a woman to get it done. i do want to ask you about your relationship with your former boss and current political rival, former president trump. after january 6th, you said this about him, quote, we need had to acknowledge he let us down. he went down a path he shouldn t have, and we shouldn t have followed him and we shouldn t have listened to him. and we can t let that ever happen again. unquote. do you still feel that way? yes. he thinks it was a beautiful day. i think it was a terrible day. i ll always stand by that. trump continues to lie about what happened in the 2020 election. he continues to say it was stolen. and a number of republican voters believe him. i know you have issues with the way some states changed the way to debunk wild conspiracy theories, claims rejected by republican governors and
a, quote, brown girl in a black and white world. what was that like you to in addition to that story you just told? i mean, it was a small rural southern town. 2500 people. two stoplights. you couldn t think about doing something wrong without somebody telling your mom. it was difficult at first. you know, we were the only indian family. we weren t white enough to be white. we weren t black enough to be black. they didn t know who we were, what we were or why we were there. and i remember when i would get teased on the playground i would come home and my mom would say your job is not to show them how you re different. your job is to show them how you re similar. and it s amazing how our country should take my mom s radvice right now. [ applause ] we re going to have more with presidential candidate governor nikki haley when we come back after this quick message. as someone living with type 2 diabetes, i want to keep it real and talk about some risks. with type 2 diabetes you have u