Former President Donald Trump, a 2024 candidate for the White House, recently made accommodating, understanding, and gracious comments about the anticipated run for president of former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, who served in his cabinet as Ambassador to the United Nations.
Trump also, along with those comments, lightly suggested a Haley presidential campaign would be an exercise in disloyalty to him.
Speaking with reporters while aboard his plane on Jan. 28, Trump said, “Nikki Haley called me the other day to talk with me—I talked with her for a while. But I said, ‘Look, go by your heart if you want to run.’
“She’s publicly said, ‘I would never run against my president; he was a great president.’”
As a guest on the Hugh Hewitt Show three days later, Trump shared a similar message, saying Haley called and asked him about her running.
“I told her she should follow her heart. You know, she said numerous times, I put it up, actually, ‘that I would never run if our president runs,’” Trump told Hewitt.
“‘He was a great president,’ et cetera, et cetera. She said that numerous times. But she’s a very ambitious person. She just couldn’t stay in her seat. And I said, you know what? Nikki, if you want to run, you go ahead and run.”
On Feb. 14, Haley made it official with her announcement in an online video about three minutes and 30 seconds long that she is a candidate for president.
She is the first announced opponent of Trump in the 2024 Republican primaries.
And Haley is now in what many may call an unenviable position of being the only official candidate on whom Trump and his camp can direct their attacks.
Quickly out of the gate going after Haley was the pro-Trump Super PAC MAGA Inc.
“Nikki Haley is just another career politician,” Taylor Budowich, an executive with MAGA and a former spokesperson for Trump, wrote in a statement.
“She started out as a Never Trumper before resigning to serve in the Trump admin. She then resigned early to go rake in money on corporate boards,” he wrote.
Budowich added, “Now, she’s telling us she represents a ‘new generation.’ Sure just looks like more of the same, a career politician whose only fulfilled commitment is to herself.”
A newly published Reuters/Ipsos 2024 Republican primary poll shows Trump firmly in the lead at 42.8 percent, Ron DeSantis at 30.5 percent, Mike Pence (7.5 percent), and Nikki Haley with 3.9 percent. Liz Cheney holds the fifth position with (1.9 percent).
I personally think that Donald Trump was a loyal patriot and a great president. But I think his time has passed and their are still so many people who hate him. I personally think that Ron Desantis would make a better president, he has the same loyal patriot character as Trump, plus he has a not so offensive personality that Trump sometimes has. Plus Ron DeSantis will not be pushed around by the Democrats or our country’s enemies. And I think this socialist Democrat Party has become one of our countries! 🙁
I believe what everyone is forgetting is the Marxist democrat propaganda outlets haven’t really started lying about DeSantis yet , and once they do everyone will want to throw him under the bus like they want to throw Trump under the bus which will empower the propaganda outlets!
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It won’t matter to rational people what the lying, dishonest Democrat propaganda outlets say. We the intelligent, rational people know that Democrats Lie about everything. We judge by one’s character, actions and behavior, Not by the Lies of the Democrats.
To the Democrats, Gender, Truth, Facts, Reality and History are all irrelevant, if the Democrats do not WANT to believe them or they disagree with them. Democrats will just make up their own, Gender, Truth, Facts, Reality and History to fit what they WANT to believe.
One must not forget the disgraceful character of Democrats.
e.g. – Nancy Pelosi admitted an unfortunate truth about her
Orchestrate and fabricated impeachment “farce”
– It hinges on witness’s “allegations” not “proof”.
It’s Not A Question” Of “Proof”, It’s About “Allegations”
https://youtu.be/7dzhIxeF204
Trump’s ego is once again, SHOWING WHY (to me at least), he is NO LONGER the right man for the presidency.
I’m pretty sure Trump will not be able to attack Nicky, because everyone will claim misogyny.
Trump would attack a corpse, if his ego wanted him to…
Trump did a good job as president, but loosing the election pushed him over the edge to almost being mentally unstable. He needs to learn to be a team player and that not everything is about him. I voted for him twice, but never again
Agreed. He’s acting more and more, like a petulant child…
Two things I dislike about Trump.
a) Obsession with “loyalty”. Anyone that dares to challenge him get labeled as disloyal. What if one of his trusted advisors tries to tell the emperor that his new suit is making him look naked?
b) It’s all about himself. Example 1. Got a post card in the mail, announcing President Trump’s Coronavirus Vaccine. What about the team of highly trained government and industry professionals that made it all possible? Example 2. Same sort of post card when stimulus checks went out.
Just two of the things that mark him as a poor leader.
Agree with all the comments. Time to move on from Trump. I personally like a DeSantis/Haley ticket but it’s early and I’m sure a lot of smack is comin’ to anyone running against Trump.
Yea right! She couldn’t win dog catcher here in South Carolina after her governorship. She’s part of the elite that we, the citizens, have gotten tired of.
I’m personally not ready to throw Trump under the bus. Yes, he sometimes is his own worst enemy. And I do like DeSantis very much. But I think we (conservatives) should let the game come to us a bit. The election is a long way off, and a lot of things could happen. I would work to elect either Trump or DeSantis (whoever can win the nomination). There are millions of people who will vote only if Trump is the nominee at this moment, and we should keep them in the game.
nikki is a globalist like the bush family.
Nikki the RINO. If she actually runs, she may draw down the money real candidates will need, but no way would I want her in the White House. She is nothing but a distraction, who has proven herself unworthy of a single dime.
HAS she really been a RINO though? I don’t remember many of her votes, that went leftist..