Nikki Haley says left attacks her age, race because she’s a ‘threat’ to ‘scared’ liberals

​Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley said Tuesday that she’s been the target of vicious smears from the left over her age and her race because she is the “biggest threat that liberals have ever seen.”

Haley was asked by Fox News host Harris Faulkner to respond to Daily Beast columnist Wajahat Ali, who said on MSNBC over the weekend that the former ambassador to the United Nations “uses her brown skin to launder white supremacist talking points.”

“It’s not a surprise,” shrugged Haley, the former South Carolina governor and daughter of Indian immigrants. “They’ve done this for a long time.

“You read the poll numbers of how I do with independents and suburban women, and all of those,” Haley went on. “They know that I am the biggest threat that liberals have ever seen and they’re scared about it.”

Haley then responded to “CNN This Morning” co-host Don Lemon, who claimed last week that the 51-year-old Haley “isn’t in her prime” after she called for politicians over the age of 75 to undergo mental competency tests.

“You want to tell me I’m past my prime? Hold my beer and watch this,” she said. “Because I’m telling you, where we are going to take America is going to change all of that, and they know how hard I’ll work and they know how tough I am. Bring it, we’re ready.”

Haley has been a regular on the cable channel to respond to the likes of Lemon, 56, and Ali, as well as “The View” co-host Whoopi Goldberg, who attacked Haley Monday in response to her call for a “new generation” of leaders.

“You’re not a new generation. You’re 51. What are you talking about?” Goldberg said, later adding: “She may be younger than most of those people, but her rhetoric is the same. She’s saying the same BS.” 

“Look at how hypocritical this is,” Haley told Fox News’ “Hannity” Monday night. “If a Republican had said this about Kamala Harris​ — if a Republican had said this about any Democrat​ –​ they’d be asking for people to be fired. You’re not hearing any of that​.

“​I mean, the ​first day it was Whoopi Goldberg​. ​T​he second day it’s Don Lemon. You know, today ​’The View​’​ picks it back up again​,” she said. ​”​And they’re trying to glorify ​[Sen.] ​Dianne Feinstein​ and ​[Rep.] ​Maxine Waters when I say we should have mental competency tests for people over the age of 75? You know, we’ve easily struck a nerve, but I’ll wear it as a badge of honor​.”

​”​They can’t stand a conservative minority female not being a Democrat,” Haley added. “And so they will continue to throw everything — When I first won the governorship in South Carolina, it was liberal minority Democrats that said, ‘She’s not a minority. She’s just a conservative with a tan​.’” 

In an interview earlier Monday on Fox News’ “The Story,” anchor Martha MacCallum had asked Haley once again for her reaction to Ali’s comments.

“This is one more example of how hypocritical the liberals are,” she answered. “They’re very quick to judge. They’re very quick to throw stones. But when it comes back at them, they act like we’re the ones that are bad. I think they’re really showing themselves for what they are​.”