Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy slammed former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley and Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) at Wednesday's GOP debate, describing them both as "Dick Cheney in three-inch heels."

Ramaswamy made the attempted dig while trying to equate Haley joining the board of Boeing after leaving the Trump administration to Hunter Biden's foreign business dealings.

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"Hunter Biden got a $5 million bribe from Ukraine. That's why we're sending $200 billion back to that same country. The fact of the matter is the Republican Party is not that much better," Ramaswamy said. "You have the likes of Nikki Haley, who stepped down from her time at the U.N., bankrupt or in debt was her family. Then she becomes a military contractor. She joins the board of Boeing and is now a multimillionaire. So I think that that's wrong when Republicans do it or Democrats do it. That's the choice we face.

"Do you want a leader from a different generation who’s going to put this country first, or do you want Dick Cheney in 3-inch heels?" he then asked. "We've got two of them onstage tonight."

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DeSantis, who has faced controversy over whether he wears lifts to make him appear taller, did not respond to the comment. Haley, meanwhile, leaned in.

"I'd first like to say they're 5-inch heels, and I don't wear them unless you can run in them,” Haley replied. “The second thing I would say is I wear heels, and they're not for a fashion statement. They're for ammunition."