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(NEW YORK) —\u00a0Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley made a surprise cameo during “Saturday Night Live”‘s cold open, mocking a fictional “Donald Trump,” played by cast member James Austin Johnson, and joking about her past controversy talking about the Civil War.<\/p>\n

The roughly two-minute appearance during a parody of a CNN town hall culminated with actress and comedian Ayo Edebiri, the episode’s host, zinging Haley for her past comments in which she initially failed to name slavery as a main cause of the Civil War.<\/p>\n

Introduced in the sketch as a “concerned South Carolina voter,” Haley delivered several quips as she went back and forth with Johnson’s version of Trump.<\/p>\n

She began by asking the caricature of the former president, “Why won’t you debate Nikki Haley?” — jabbing at the real-life Trump’s decision not to debate because of his large lead in the GOP primary race over her.<\/p>\n

“Trump” then exclaimed, “Oh my god, it’s her, the woman who was in charge of security on Jan. 6, it’s Nancy Pelosi.” It was a callback to a recent gaffe by Trump in which he appeared to confuse Haley for the former speaker of the House at a campaign event.<\/p>\n

“Donald, you might need a mental competency test,” Haley retorted.<\/p>\n

“Trump” then said that he “took the test, and I aced it.”<\/p>\n

“Perfect score. They said I’m 100% mental,” he joked.<\/p>\n

“And I’m competent because I’m a man. That’s why a woman should never run our economy. Women are terrible with money. In fact, a woman I know recently asked me for $83.3 million,” he added, a nod to the damages won by writer E. Jean Carroll from a New York civil jury after Trump was found to have defamed her after she said he sexually assaulted her, for which he was also found liable by a jury.<\/p>\n

(He denies that and has vowed to appeal.)<\/p>\n

In response to “Trump” making a joke about the “Sixth Sense” and claiming, “I see dead people,” Haley joked on “SNL”: “Yeah, that’s what voters will say if they see you and Joe [Biden] on the ballot.”<\/p>\n

And when “Trump” said that he was going to beat her in South Carolina, Haley asked, “Did you win your home state in the last election?”<\/p>\n

But it was Edebiri, one of the stars of FX’s “The Bear,” who, at the end, poked fun at Haley.<\/p>\n

“I was just curious, what would you say was the main cause of the Civil War? And do you think it starts with an ‘S’ and ends with a ‘Lavery,'” Edebiri asked, playing a member of the town hall audience.<\/p>\n

“Yep, I probably should have said that the first time,” Haley said, smiling, before segueing into the show’s signature intro.<\/p>\n

Posting about her appearance on X afterward, Haley wrote that she “had a blast” on the show.<\/p>\n

“Know it was past Donald’s bedtime so looking forward to the stream of unhinged tweets in the a.m.,” she added.<\/p>\n

The late-night appearance comes as she is preparing to face Trump in South Carolina’s Republican primary, the next contest in the race for the GOP presidential nomination.<\/p>\n

Haley, a former South Carolina governor, recently made headlines for what she said about the Civil War.<\/p>\n

At a December town hall, she initially did not mention slavery as one of the main causes of the conflict — instead saying the war was about “basically how the government was going to run” and “freedoms and what people could and couldn’t do.”<\/p>\n

Haley soon walked back her initial answer and has repeatedly called the response a mistake on the campaign trail.<\/p>\n

Appearing last week on “The Breakfast Club” radio show, Haley said that she was “too busy judging” the questioner’s “intentions then I was just answering the question. And it was a mistake.”<\/p>\n

“Slavery should have been the first thing that came out of my mouth,” she said.<\/p>\n

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