Haley Campaign Press Release - Haley on America's Newsroom: "You can't win if you're absent."

SIMI VALLEY, Calif. – Following a strong and substantive debate performance last night, presidential candidate Nikki Haley sat down with Fox News' Dana Perino to discuss TikTok's national security threat and why Donald Trump should have shown up to debate in Simi Valley.

On the TikTok threat...

"I think if you're asking to be the leader of the free world—to go on a platform that is really controlled by our biggest enemy—is not what you need to be telling young people. You need to be telling them the truth. You need to not do what's easy because they're on it. You need to say, look, did you know China can jump into your phone, take your financial information, take your contacts, get into your microphone and your camera? And this is a major espionage tool that China's using. Why are you getting on it? I think it disqualifies him right off the bat."

On separating herself from the field...

"I think that last night was important to contrast. I think now Americans want to say, okay, what's the difference between all of you? I hope that I was able to show that whether it's talking about China and TikTok, whether it's talking about what we need to do in education, or what we need to do in health care — really putting policy solutions forward."

On Trump's absence...

"You can't win if you're absent. He's got a lot of questions to answer. He's got to talk about the out-of-control spending that happened under his watch. He's got to talk about why he wasn't tougher on China and allowed them to buy up our land and steal our intellectual property and kill Americans with fentanyl. He's got to talk about why he's walking things back on Ukraine. There's a lot of issues that I think Americans are going to want answers to and the more these debates play out, the more that he's not there, they're going to have a problem with that."