Judge Judy endorses Nikki Haley for president: ‘She is whip smart’

Fox's first appearance: Judge Judith Sheindlin, better known to fans as Judge Judy, is endorsing Nikki Haley in the 2024 presidential election.

“I am proud to support Nikki Haley because she is extremely intelligent, has administrative credentials, and has been a great governor,” Sheindlin said in a statement. “She has international dignity as ambassador to the United Nations. She is principled, prudent, and has the fantastic qualities of genuine common sense. I truly believe she can restore America. , I believe she is the future of this great country.”

Ms Haley returned the compliment, calling the judge a “serious woman”.

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“Judge Judy is a serious woman who has earned the respect of millions of Americans on the court for her thoughtfulness, fairness, and honesty, and I am honored to have her support,” Haley said in a press release. ” he said.

Thanks in part to her performances in the first three Republican presidential primary debates, Haley, a former two-term South Carolina governor who later served as U.N. ambassador in President Donald Trump's administration, has been elected to Florida in the past month. caught up with. Governor Ron DeSantis The latest Iowa polls and national polls place him in second place behind President Trump.

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In New Hampshire, the state where the nation's first primary election will be held, Haley came in second place behind Trump.

“We're seeing momentum on the ground,” Haley said in an interview on Fox News over the weekend. I can feel the excitement.

Republican presidential candidate and former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley speaks at an election town hall in Rye, New Hampshire, on January 2, 2024. (Reuters/Brian Snyder)

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For 25 years, Sheindlin starred on the hit show “Judge Judy,” where she won millions of devoted fans with her witty courtroom rebuttals. Rather than leaving television for good, she is currently the presiding judge on Amazon Freevee's “Judy Justice.” The show has become Freevee's number one original show with over 150 million viewers in the past two years.

Sheindlin graduated from New York Law School, was appointed to the New York City Family Court in 1982, and became chief judge of the Manhattan court in 1986.

Judge Judy appears in “Judy Justice.'' (Michael Becker, Amazon Freevee)

Haley participated in a Fox News town hall on Monday touting her foreign policy experience and saying President Biden's policies are making the United States “vulnerable and putting us at risk.” He also accused Trump and DeSantis of cherry-picking their comments on illegal immigration and of trying to cast Hillary Clinton as a liberal, whose approval ratings have soared in polls. She suggested that her opponents were distorting her words.

She also noted that the Supreme Court should keep Trump on the ballot because she intends to defeat him “fairly and squarely” without any outside help from Democrats in Colorado or other states. It was worth it.

”“No, he should not be removed from the ballot. The Supreme Court needs to rule quickly before other states start doing this,” Haley said. This is a door we don't need to open to see what happens. I will defeat President Trump fair and square.We don't need anyone to remove him from the ballot to do so.. ”

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The Iowa caucuses will be held on January 15th.