At a small Christian university in northwest Iowa, multiple seekers after the GOP’s 2024 presidential nomination told Rep. Randy Feenstra (R-Iowa) why faith matters to them.
Among all the presidential hopefuls’ pitches, former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley’s stood out. She mounted a proactive defense of her decision to oversee the removal of the Confederate battle flag from South Carolina’s statehouse grounds.
“You’ll remember we had that horrific shooting at Mother Emanuel church,” Ms. Haley told Mr. Feenstra and his wife, Lynette, while sitting with them and her daughter Rena on stage at Dordt University on Dec. 9.
In June 2015, while Ms. Haley was governor of South Carolina, Dylann Roof shot and killed nine churchgoers at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, a historically black house of worship in Charleston, South Carolina….
