Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley, arguably Donald Trump’s biggest competitor keeping him from clinching the 2024 GOP nomination, doubled down Thursday night on comments she made suggesting that the United States has never been racist. Haley, in an town hall event with CNN’s Jake Tapper, was asked if she really thinks, as a historical matter, that America has never been a racist country. “I mean, first of all, I will tell you when you look at, you know, the Declaration of Independence, it was that men are created equal with unalienable rights, right?” she replied. She then added th…