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Trump keeps dragging Haley’s husband into it, and the attack boomerangs immediately
Trump took another swing at Nikki Haley by questioning why her husband was not on the campaign trail, despite the fact that he was overseas on a National Guard mission. Haley and her allies answered with immediate outrage, and the episode quickly became a fresh example of Trump’s talent for generating needless backlash from a line that added almost nothing to his political case. It was not merely crude; it was stupid in a way that handed his opponent a clean moral contrast. On a day when Trump could have looked above the fray, he instead reminded everybody why his campaign keeps serving up its own opposition ads.