Nikki Haley tore into both Joe Biden and Donald Trump in her Saturday night speech after losing her home state to Trump, denouncing ‘obsessing’ over the past moments after Trump revisited his claims of 2020 election fraud.

 She made the comment while trailing Trump by 20 points in early returns, after Trump in his own victory speech spoke about his 2020 ‘lead’ over Biden vanishing as additional returns came in in battleground states. 

‘We won’t get out of our downward spiral if we keep obsessing over the past,’ Haley told a a crowd of supporters.

‘Does anyone seriously think Joe Biden or Donald Trump will unite our country to solve our problems? One of them calls his fellow Americans fascists. The other calls his fellow Americans vermin.  They aren’t fighting for our county’s future. They’re demanding we fight each other,’ she said.

She was referencing Biden’s 2022 denunciation of what he called ‘extreme MAGA philosophy.  

‘It’s not just Trump, it’s the entire philosophy that underpins the — I’m going to say something, it’s like semi-fascism,’ he said, in a remark that drew comparisons to Hillary Clinton’s infamous ‘basket of deplorables’ language to describe Trump supporters.

Trump last year used the terms ‘vermin’ to describe migrants ‘poisoning the blood’ of the U.S., in language that critics tied to similar language by Adolph Hitler.

If Haley wanted to denounce someone for targeting fascists, she could have also pointed to Saturday afternoon, where Trump once again used the term to describe Biden supporters. ‘He’s surrounded by some very bad fascists,’ Trump said at CPAC.

‘I would rather lose my freedom than surrender to this group. of thugs and tyrants, fascist scoundrels and rogues,’ Trump said, after going after Biden and ‘deranged prosecutors’ he blamed for his criminal indictments.

Trump also repeated multiple claims of election fraud in 2020, when courts rejected claims by his allies and he lost the popular vote by 7 million votes. 

‘And in 2020, they cheated like dogs and we all know it,’ Trump said.

During his victory speech, Trump also pointed to states he contested in 2020.

‘We’re leading in Pennsylvania. And all of a sudden no something happened. It went boom. And then we’re leading all over the place Georgia and then boom,’ Trump said.

Haley’s comments about ‘obsessing’ over the past fit with her overall slams on her rivals for their age, sometimes calling them two ’80 year olds.’ Biden is 81, Trump is 77, and Haley is 52.