Nikki Haley questions whether Trump, 77, is 'mentally fit' for office after her mixes her up with Nancy Pelosi when speaking of Jan. 6 riots

Nikki Haley questioned whether Donald Trump is ‘mentally fit’ to be president after he appeared to confuse her with former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, accusing Haley of being in charge of security in the Capitol on the day of the January 6th insurrection.

‘I’m not saying anything derogatory, but when you’re dealing with the pressures of a presidency, we can’t have someone else that we question whether they’re mentally fit to do this,’ Haley said Saturday while campaigning in New Hampshire.

‘I wasn’t even in DC on Jan. 6. I wasn’t in office then. They’re saying he got confused, that he was talking about something else, he was talking about Nancy Pelosi. He mentioned me multiple times in that scenario,’ she continued.

Trump, 77, previously accused Pelosi, who was speaker at the time, of being in charge of security on the day of the insurrection. Daily Mail relied on video clips to report on Haley’s remarks after she banned Daily Mail from covering her campaign after its exclusive report that Haley falsely denied cheating on her husband when she was accused of engaging in two extramarital affairs during her 2010 South Carolina gubernatorial campaign.

Nikki Haley questioned whether Donald Trump is ‘mentally fit’ to be president after he appeared to confuse her with former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi

Haley has ramped up her crticism of Trump with only four days to go until New Hampshire’s first-in-the-nation primary.

But the former president continues to hold a double-digit lead in the polls. The latest poll by the Boston Globe and Suffolk University shows Trump with 53%, Haley  with 36% and Ron DeSantis with 7%.

Additionally Senator Tim Scott endorsed Trump on Friday night, becoming the latest party official to back the former president. Scott is from Haley’s home state of South Carolina and she appointed him to his seat when she was governor.

Trump plans to taunt Haley more with his support from her state. At his rally in Manchester on Saturday night, he hosted South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster, the state’s lieutenant governor and a slew of other senior officials, including the state’s attorney general, treasurer and House speaker. Also appearing are U.S. Reps. Joe Wilson, William Timmons and Russell Fry.

But the former president raised eyebrows when he spoke at a rally in Concord, New Hampshire on Friday. Trump repeatedly referred to Haley being responsible for security during the US Capitol riot on January 6, 2021.

‘By the way, they never report the crowd on January 6. You know Nikki Haley, Nikki Haley, Nikki Haley, you know, they — do you know they destroyed all of the information, all of the evidence, everything, deleted and destroyed all of it. All of it,’ Trump claimed, without substantiation.

‘Because of lots of things, like Nikki Haley is in charge of security — we offered her 10,000 people, soldiers, National Guards, whatever they want. They turned it down. They don’t want to talk about that. These are very dishonest people.’

Haley repeatedly jumped on his gaffe at her campaign stops in New Hampshire on Saturday.

‘When you’re 80, that’s what happens. You’re just not as sharp as you used to be,’ she said. ‘We need to know that the person that’s going to be in this office has the stamina to be at the top of their game.’

President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign pounced on the gaffe, posting a clip of Trump’s comment on X and remarking: ‘A deeply confused Trump confuses Nancy Pelosi and Nikki Haley multiple times.’

Speaking at a rally in Concord, New Hampshire on Friday night, Trump repeatedly referred to Nikki Haley being responsible for security during the US Capitol riot

President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign pounced on the gaffe, posting a clip of Trump’s comment on X

Trump has long blamed Pelosi, a top Democrat, for the events of January 6, when a mob of his supporters breached the Capitol and attempted to stop the certification of Biden’s election win.

Pelosi’s office has denied those claims, saying that she had no more responsibility for Capitol security than did then-Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Republican.

A spokesperson for Trump’s campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment from DailyMail.com on Saturday morning.

At his event in Concord on Friday, Trump spent much of his speech disparaging Haley, and said he would ‘probably’ not select her as a running mate.

‘She is not presidential timber,’ Trump said. ‘Now when I say that, that probably means that she’s not going to be chosen as the vice president.’

‘I know her very well. She’s not tough enough. She’s not smart enough. And she wasn’t respected enough. She cannot do this job,’ Trump said. ‘She’s not going to be able to deal with President Xi. She’s not going to be able to deal with Putin.’

Ahead of Tuesday primary election in New Hampshire, Trump has stepped up his rhetorical attacks on Haley, his main challenger in the Granite State, where an open primary format gives independent voters an influential say.

Donald Trump appeared to confuse his GOP presidential primary rival Nikki Haley (left) with former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (right) on Friday

Trump has long blamed Pelosi for the events of January 6, when a mob of his supporters breached the Capitol and attempted to stop the certification of Biden’s election win

On his Truth Social platform, Trump lashed out at Haley on Friday, mocking her birth name in racially charged taunts.

Trump repeatedly referred to Haley, the daughter of immigrants from India by way of Canada, as ‘Nimbra,’ and apparent misspelling of her given name.

Haley, the former South Carolina governor, was born in Bamberg, South Carolina, as Nimarata Nikki Randhawa.

Since childhood, she has always gone by her middle name, ‘Nikki.’ She took the surname ‘Haley’ upon her marriage in 1996 to Michael Haley.

Trump called Haley ‘Nimbra’ three times in the same post on Friday, and said she ‘doesn’t have what it takes.’

Trump’s post was an escalation of recent attacks in which he referenced Haley’s given first name – though he previously misspelled it ‘Nimrada’.

He has also falsely suggested she is ineligible for the presidency because her parents were not US citizens when she was born in 1972. Haley, a US citizen at birth, meets the Constitution’s citizenship requirements for the presidency.

Haley has dismissed Trump’s latest attacks as proof that she threatens his bid for a third consecutive nomination.

‘I’ll let people decide what he means by his attacks,’ Haley told reporters in New Hampshire on Friday when asked about Trump´s false assertions that her heritage disqualifies her from the Oval Office.

Trump repeatedly referred to Haley, the daughter of immigrants from India by way of Canada, as ‘Nimbra,’ and apparent misspelling of her given name

Sen Tim Scott appeared on stage with Donald Trump on Friday evening in Concord, New Hampshire, to endorse the former president is the race for the Republican nomination

‘What we know is, look, he’s clearly insecure if he goes and does these temper tantrums, if he’s spending millions of dollars on TV. He’s insecure, he knows that something’s wrong,’ she added, according to the Associated Press.

New Hampshire holds its first-in-the-nation primary on Tuesday. Haley in particular may struggle to continue her campaign if she finishes a distant second to the former president.