If Texas decides it wants to secede from the US “they can do it,” Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley said Wednesday.
The former South Carolina governor downplayed the possibility of the Lone Star State actually choosing to secede from the republic but insisted during an appearance on the “Breakfast Club” radio show that secession was a state’s “right.”
“I think states have the right to make decisions that their people want to make,” Haley said, when asked by host Charlamagne Tha God about her thoughts on secession given Texas’ dispute with the Biden administration over border security.
“If Texas decides they want to do that. They can do it,” he added.
“If that whole state says, ‘We don’t want to be part of America anymore’ — I mean, that’s their decision,” the 52-year-old White House hopeful said. “But I don’t think the government should tell people how to live, how to do anything. I mean, I think we have to let freedom live.”
Haley argued that Texas had a “right” to secede from the US. Reuters
Although the US Constitution does not contain any provision prohibiting states from leaving the union, it does not expressly grant states the right to secede.
“I think, you know, the state will make a decision,” Haley said. “But let’s talk about reality. Texas will not secede. That’s not something they’re going to do.”
However, the issue was largely resolved by the Union’s victory over the Confederacy in the Civil War and the 1869 Supreme Court ruling Texas v. White, which held that states could not unilaterally secede from the US.
Haley also defended Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s efforts to stop illegal immigration in the Lone Star State. Reuters
Haley continued to defend Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s efforts to prevent illegal border crossings, including by installing razor wire along the border that the Supreme Court ruled could be cut down by federal authorities.
“He has to protect the Texans,” Haley argued.
Haley raised eyebrows last month when she refused to cite slavery as the main cause of the Civil War.
He backtracked the next day, saying “Of course the Civil War was about slavery.”
Haley trails former President Donald Trump by more than 30 points in the upcoming South Carolina Republican primary, which will be held in her home state on February 24, according to a RealClearPolitics polling average.
The Haley campaign did not respond to The Post’s request for comment.
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