Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley is catching heat from both sides of the political aisle after she declined to mention slavery as the reason for sparking the U.S. Civil War.
A voter asked the former U.N. ambassador during a New Hampshire town hall on Wednesday what was "the cause" of the war, to which she joked, "Well, don’t come with an easy question or anything."
"I think the cause of the Civil War was basically how government was going to run – the freedoms and what people could and couldn’t do," she continued.
"I mean, I think it all comes down to the role of government," she added. "We need to have capitalism. We need to have economic freedom. We need to make sure that we do all things so that individuals have the liberties so that they can have freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom to do or be anything they want to be without government getting in the way."
