Nikki Haley: Idea the Democratic Frontrunner Is a ‘Self Avowed Socialist’ Is ‘Absurd’

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HALEY: "You know, it’s amazing because my time at the United Nations, I saw countries that literally had to deal with socialism every day. And seeing the poverty and seeing the starvation and seeing the misery, they would’ve loved to have been in America. And they would’ve loved to have the freedoms we have. And the idea that the forerunner of the Democratic Party is a self-avowed socialist and that Bernie Sanders is going to be their poster child of the Democratic Party, that is absurd. And what I can tell you is there is not a socialist country anywhere that thinks socialism is a good thing. You can look at all of the countries that have ever tried it. They go as quick to capitalism as they possibly can. And what I don’t understand is, capitalism has lifted up more people out of poverty in the history of the world. And if you look 200 years ago, and look at our ancestors, and you look at where we are today, 200 years ago, 94% of the world was in extreme poverty. Today it’s 10%. That's because of capitalism. So we were here today at CPAC and we’ve been telling people, when you think of capitalism, think of freedom, because that is what it is."