I don't care for Nikki Haley one bit, but there are many reasons given as to why the war started. Historians have been arguing about them for decades, and will continue to do so. No matter what answer she gave, the media would have attacked her, unless she'd said slavery. Slavery wasn't the initial reason the war started, although the left would like it to have been. They will push that claim, so they can label someone a racist, when they don't answer that question, the way they demand they should.
Don’t get accustomed to Defending her. Call her Birbrain and move on. She’s trying to win the Nomination by courting Democrats because she doesn’t have the support of the base. You have to play the game. Don’t defend Birdbrain.
1. Her answer was nonsensical from a historical/factual standpoint.
2. Any Republican presidential candidate who didn’t see this as a glorious opportunity to state that (A) the Republican Party was founded as an anti-slavery political party, and (B) they saw it as their mission to stop Democrats from keeping slaves … is too ‘effing stupid to be out in public alone.
3. This is the same dingbat who made a point of removing the Confederate flag from the South Carolina Capitol. She botched an answer like this after THAT pathetic episode of political pandering?