Nikki Haley tells Republicans not to blame others after midterm election results

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Former South Carolina governor and United Nations ambassador Nikki Haley told Republicans on NBC’s TODAY on Wednesday, the day after the midterm elections, that they should not whine, complain or point fingers. Haley said Republicans could not blame the media, academia or Hollywood, and that the party had listened to Washington rather than the American people. She said Americans were saying that groceries, gas and health care were high, and urged the party to take its medicine and get to work. The reports are based on her televised remarks.

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Haley spoke on NBC’s TODAY on Wednesday, the day after the midterm elections.
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Haley told Republicans this is not the time to whine, complain or point fingers.
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Haley said Republicans cannot blame the media, academia or Hollywood for the results.
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Haley said Republicans did not listen to the American people but listened to Washington, D.C.
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Haley is a former South Carolina governor and former United Nations ambassador.
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All three outlets report Haley telling Republicans not to whine, complain or point fingers after the midterms. Left-side pieces add her claim that the party listened to Washington, not voters, while The Washington Times frames it as Haley ripping into her party.

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Left headlines quote Haley’s call to stop whining, but HuffPost’s “MAGA Outcast” label casts her as estranged from Trump and the party, a framing NBC’s headline does not use.
Loaded modifier“MAGA Outcast”The label calls Haley an outcast from her party, a judgement the article does not establish from its own reporting.More neutral: Former UN ambassador Nikki HaleyDisagree with this highlight? Nikki Haley Tells GOP It’s Not Time To ‘Whine, Complain Or Point Fingers’
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The only right-side headline, from The Washington Times, frames Haley as ripping into her own party after major midterm losses, putting the defeat and her rebuke up front.
Nikki Haley Loaded verb“rips into”The verb describes Haley’s remarks as an attack in the outlet’s own voice, while the remarks themselves are described as a message to Republicans.More neutral: criticizesDisagree with this highlight? Republicans after major losses in midterms
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seismic shift in powerpolitical routMAGA Outcast
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seismic shift in powerMore neutral: midterm election results
The phrase is dramatic wording in the outlet’s own voice for the midterm results, which it could report without it.
…to Republicans and Democrats following the midterm elections results and the seismic shift in power.
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rips intoMore neutral: criticizes
The verb describes Haley’s remarks as an attack in the outlet’s own voice, while the remarks themselves are described as a message to Republicans.
Nikki Haley rips into Republicans after major losses in midterms
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political routMore neutral: midterm election results
The term is a dramatic description of the election result in the outlet’s own voice, while the other outlets describe it in plainer terms.
…to take a hard look in the mirror and then get back to work following Tuesday’s political rout.
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MAGA OutcastMore neutral: Former UN ambassador Nikki Haley
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MAGA Outcast Nikki Haley Tells GOP It’s Not Time To ‘Whine, Complain Or Point Fingers’
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whiningMore neutral: complained or objected
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…on the "TODAY" show that Republicans should not spend the day after the midterms "whining, complaining or pointing fingers."
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Haley’s break with Trump and the MAGA movement
Haley’s call to stop blaming others
Republicans not listening to voters

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HuffPostFar Left
Loaded modifier“MAGA Outcast”The label calls Haley an outcast from her party, a judgement the article does not establish from its own reporting.More neutral: Former UN ambassador Nikki HaleyDisagree with this highlight? Nikki Haley Tells GOP It’s Not Time To ‘Whine, Complain Or Point Fingers’
“You can’t blame media, you can’t blame academia, you can’t blame Hollywood,” the former governor said during an interview on NBC.
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NBC NewsLeft
Nikki Haley to Republicans: ‘This is Not the Time to Whine’
Former Republican governor of North Carolina and NBC News political contributor Nikki Haley joins TODAY with a message to Republicans and Democrats following the midterm elections results and the Sensational language“seismic shift in power”The phrase is dramatic wording in the outlet’s own voice for the midterm results, which it could report without it.More neutral: midterm election resultsDisagree with this highlight?. …
11 hr agoRead at NBC News (opens in a new tab)

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Haley’s rebuke of fellow Republicans
Major midterm losses
Her TODAY show appearance

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Nikki Haley Loaded verb“rips into”The verb describes Haley’s remarks as an attack in the outlet’s own voice, while the remarks themselves are described as a message to Republicans.More neutral: criticizesDisagree with this highlight? Republicans after major losses in midterms
Former South Carolina governor and U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley told Savannah Guthrie and Craig Melvin on the "TODAY" show that Republicans should not spend the day after the midterms "Loaded verb“whining”Belittles the complaint.More neutral: complained, objectedThis appears inside a quotation. The outlet is reporting someone else’s words.Disagree with this highlight?, complaining or pointing fingers."
5 hr agoRead at The Washington Times (opens in a new tab)

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NBC News, Nov 4, 8:32 AM EST
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Nikki Haley tells Republicans not to blame others after midterm election results

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Nikki Haley to Republicans: ‘This is Not the Time to Whine’

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Nikki Haley Loaded verb“rips into”The verb describes Haley’s remarks as an attack in the outlet’s own voice, while the remarks themselves are described as a message to Republicans.More neutral: criticizesDisagree with this highlight? Republicans after major losses in midterms

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Nikki Haley rips intoLoaded verb“rips into”The verb describes Haley’s remarks as an attack in the outlet’s own voice, while the remarks themselves are described as a message to Republicans.More neutral: criticizesDisagree with this highlight? Republicans after major losses in midterms

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Nikki Haley Loaded verb“rips into”The verb describes Haley’s remarks as an attack in the outlet’s own voice, while the remarks themselves are described as a message to Republicans.More neutral: criticizesDisagree with this highlight? Republicans after major losses in midterms