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Nikki Haley was interrupted nine times at her final campaign stop before Super Tuesday when several pro-Palestine protesters descended on her Fort Worth, Texas rally. The 2024 hopeful made her last stand before the fateful day that will allocate 865 delegates in the Republican presidential primary and essentially decide if she remains a viable candidate for the nomination.
But her final rally before Super Tuesday was infiltrated by several small groups of protesters who periodically interrupted her stump speech to a room full of hundreds of Texan supporters at Tannahill’s Tavern & Music Hall in Fort Worth on Monday evening.
Groups of between one and three pro-Palestine protesters shouted chants like, ‘Free Palestine’ or ‘ceasefire now,’ before law enforcement escorted them from the live music venue. ‘If there’s any more of you it would be a lot better if you just did it together,’ Haley said after the seventh outburst of the evening.
But there were still three more interruptions after that. One demonstrator shouted: ‘Nikki Haley, you support genocide.’
Months of conflict ensued in the Middle East after Hamas terrorists invaded Israel in a deadly attack in October 2023. Since then, there has been warfare between the Jewish State and the terrorists operating out of the Palestinian enclave of Gaza.
Aactivists claim Israel is conducting genocide against Palestinian people in the region, while pro-Israel groups and lawmakers claim the U.S. ally has a right to defend itself against terrorists.
Each time there was an outburst at Haley’s rally on Monday, the crowd would burst into chants of the candidate’s name to try and drown out the protesters pushing pro-Palestine sentiments.
But Haley also repeated an anecdote she has said at any rally with protesters and claimed her husband Maj. Michael Haley is serving in the military to defend their rights to protest. She would wait for the demonstrators to be cleared from the room before continuing her remarks.
‘You know, we may have a few more protester friends,’ Haley said after the first outburst of the evening. ‘But I want to remind all of you – don’t get mad at them, because my husband and his military brothers and sisters sacrifice every day for their right to be able to do that.’
There were about 500 attendees who turned out for Haley’s event on Monday evening to support her final push to beat Trump in the Republican primary.
A few pro-Haley voters at the event told DailyMail.com that they would reluctantly end up supporting Trump in 2024 if he is the nominee against presumed Democratic candidate President Joe Biden. Alan Richvourg, 57, however, said that if Trump were the Republican nominee, he would consider not casting his ballot in a general presidential election for the first time since 1982.
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