Nikki Haley tears into Biden for 'demonizing' American energy producers trends now
2024 GOP presidential hopeful Nikki Haley is slamming President Biden for 'demonizing' energy producers and touting her own plan to get the U.S. on the path toward total energy independence, which she says will help the country assert dominance against its enemies on the world stage.
DailyMail.com accompanied Haley on a tour of a massive oil rig just outside of Midland, Texas, Thursday, during which she discussed energy independence, calling it 'hugely important' for national security.
Haley said once Biden took office, he started 'demonizing' energy producers, which she said is 'the wrong thing to do.'
'I mean, look at this beautiful rig,' she told DailyMail.com in an exclusive interview following the tour, pointing behind her.
Haley, who served as the former Ambassador to the United Nations under the Trump administration, said that while she was at the U.N., enemies of the U.S. didn't want 'us to have a strong military' and 'they didn't want us to be energy independent.'
DailyMail.com accompanied Haley on a tour of a massive oil rig just outside of Midland, Texas, Thursday
The former South Carolina governor discussed a top criticism she has of the Biden administration which she says has pushed its green policies over promoting national security through strong independent energy policies.
When Biden took office in 2021, he immediately stopped the Keystone XL pipeline, put controlling permitting on federal lands and water and added a ton of green subsidies, Haley stated.
'In my administration, we would stop criminalizing these energy producers and we would make sure that we are partners with them and do whatever it takes to be energy independent,' Haley pledged.
'We would make sure we stopped controlling where they produce and how much they produce. We would roll back the green subsidies that we see today. And we would make sure that we're focused on speeding up the permitting process for the pipelines and getting the EPA out of the way.'
'A full strong foreign policy is good for energy policy,' she reiterated during the interview with DailyMail.com.
'That's why we came here to Midland today. And I hope every American can see what we saw today.'
Her remarks came hours after it was reported that China is funneling billions of dollars into Cuba to establish a 'spy base' just 100 miles off the coast of Florida.
DailyMail.com got her first reaction to the hostile move by China.
'Why is everybody surprised that China's putting a spy base in Cuba?' she replied. 'I mean, this is the same country that had a spy balloon go over America.'
'I mean, it didn't go over South Carolina because we have beautiful beaches, which we
