Former President Donald Trump on Saturday reported that he and his campaign are considering former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, his former opponent in the Republican presidential primary, as his running mate in the 2024 presidential election. was rejected.
“Nikki Haley is not being considered as a candidate for vice president, but we wish her the best.” Trump wrote in the post. To Truth Social.
Trump’s post followed a report from Axios. Citing “two people familiar with this trend,” Haley claimed to be in the running to be Trump’s running mate.
Haley stood her up presidential election campaign In February 2023, he will be the first major candidate to run against Trump, who announced his candidacy three months earlier. And she became Mr. Trump’s last rival, running against the former president in a two-candidate showdown that ran from the New Hampshire primary in late January to Super Tuesday in early March.
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“Nikki Haley is not being considered as a running mate, but I wish her the best,” former President Donald Trump said in a post on Truth Social. (Getty Images)
Haley announced on March 6, the day after Trump won 14 of the 15 Republican nomination races on Super Tuesday, that she would cease campaigning for the White House.
Haley has so far refused to support Trump.
“It’s now up to Donald Trump to win the votes of people inside and outside his party who didn’t support him,” Haley said in March, pointing to those who supported her when she was white. And I hope he does.” House run.
Haley has not spoken to Trump since withdrawing from the race, a source close to her confirmed to Fox News earlier this week.
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Former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley speaks at a primary election night gathering at Charleston Place on February 24, 2024 in Charleston, South Carolina. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
Haley continues to win votes in the Republican primary despite being out of contention for the presidential nomination, amid expectations that it will be difficult for Trump to face President Biden in a rematch in the general election later this year.
Haley won nearly 22% of the vote in Indiana’s Republican presidential primary on Tuesday, which was open to Republicans as well as independents and Democrats.
During her bid for the White House, Haley advocated a strong U.S. foreign policy to address global hotspots such as the war between Russia and Ukraine and the fighting between Israel and Hamas, but President Trump’s policy of keeping Americans out of the country It was often in contrast to monotheistic policies. international connections.
Haley quarrels with rival Vivek Ramaswamy over US role abroad, An advocate of President Trump’s America First policy during the Republican presidential primary debate.
President Donald Trump shakes hands with United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley in the Oval Office on October 9, 2018 in Washington, DC. (Olivier Drierly/AFP via Getty Images)
In response to his father’s dismissal of the report, the former president’s eldest son Donald Trump Jr. said: I wrote it in the post To X, “Oh thank God!!! Word on the street is that her people were floating this bull — because she’s a PAC fundraiser [M]We are trying to sell the number of admissions on the day!!!”
Haley plans to gather with big-time donors to the Republican presidential campaign early next week, sources confirmed to Fox News this week. She will reportedly use a two-day rally in Charleston, South Carolina, on Monday and Tuesday, to thank her key contributors.
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Haley officials said the former ambassador has no plans to encourage donors to donate to President Trump’s general election campaign and is pending support for Republican presidential candidates.
FOX News’ Paul Steinhauser contributed to this report.
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