Nikki Haley says Biden is worse than King George: 2024 hopeful compares Britain’s

Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley floated Friday that President Joe Biden was worse than Britain’s King George III, whose behavior sparked the American Revolution. 

Haley was debuting her ‘Freedom Plan’ – an economic agenda she hopes to enact if elected to the White House next year – in front of an audience of potential voters at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire. 

One of the three tenets she’s proposing is a laundry list of ways to ‘reduce federal government control of our lives.’ 

‘In the Declaration of Independence, the founders accused King George of sending “swarms of officers to harass our people and eat out their substance,” but the British had nothing on Joe Biden,’ she said, earning some laughs from the crowd. 

‘He’s trying to control the lightbulbs we use, the cars we drive, the stoves we buy and countless other parts of our daily lives,’ she added. 

Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley debuted her ‘Freedom Plan’ Friday at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire

Haley floated that President Joe Biden (left) was worse than Britain’s King George III (right) for trying to ‘control the lightbulbs we use’ and the ‘stoves we buy’

She complained that, ‘Entire industries now live or die based on the whims of Washington.’ 

Last month the Biden administration banned incandescent light bulbs, a process that started when Republican President George W. Bush was president and Congress passed the Energy Independence and Security Act. 

The Trump Administration had appealed the rules, but the Biden Administration picked it back up when he came into office in January 2021. 

The president has also championed the conversion to electric vehicles – signing legislation that includes incentives to move this forward. 

As for stoves, in January, a Biden-appointed commissioner of the Consumer Product Safety Commission, Richard L. Trumka Jr., created a frenzy on the political right when he said that gas stoves were a ‘hidden hazard’ and ‘any option,’ including a ban, was on the table. 

Trumka had pointed to links between gas stoves and child asthma rates. 

Facing a firestrom of criticism from Republicans, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was forced to announce that the administration was not coming after Americans’ gas stoves. 

‘The president does not support banning gas stoves and the Consumer Product Safety Commission, which is independent, is not banning as stoves,’ she said. 

Haley’s comments follow former President Donald Trump, one of her 2024 Republican White House rivals, complaining about the government setting certain energy standards. 

‘You know I have this gorgeous head of hair – when I take a shower, I want water to pour down on me. When you go into these new homes with showers, the water drips down slowly, slowly,’ Trump said last month at a dinner with voters in South Carolina. 

Other parts of Haley’s ‘Freedom Plan’ included changes to the tax code that she claimed would benefit the middle class and forcing Congress to cut the budget. 

‘I will veto any spending bill that doesn’t take us back to pre COVID levels,’ she pledged. ‘We’re not talking about 1950 spending levels. We’re talking about just four years ago.’ 

One of her ideas included not paying members of Congress when they fail to pass a budget. 

She also pitched rolling back Biden’s green energy incentives. 

‘Joe Biden is pushing us to buy expensive electric cars and subsidizing car companies,’ Haley said. ‘Innovative electric car companies don’t need subsidies.’ 

Haley also pointed out that most electric car batteries are made in China, despite the White House’s current push to move battery manufacturing to the United States.