Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley on Sunday mocked Congress as the “most privileged nursing home” in the United States in her repeated call for term limits and mental competency tests for elected officials older than a certain age.
“Don’t you think it’s finally time we had term limits in Washington, D.C.?” Haley said during a rally in Conway, S.C., on Sunday. “Don’t you think we need to have mental competency tests for anyone over the age of 75?”
“Now let me say this, I’m not being disrespectful when I say that. We all know 75-year-olds that can run circles around us,” she continued. “And then we know Joe Biden, Congress has become the most privileged nursing home in the country,” prompting laughs from those in the audience.
Haley said it is important American voters know that those who make decisions on the future of the economy and national security are “at the top of their game.”
Haley, a former United Nations ambassador, has repeatedly taken aim at her political opponents’ ages, including President Biden, who is 81 and the oldest sitting U.S. president, and former President Trump, who is 77.