Former President Trump said that former Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley will “absolutely” be “joining our team in some way” in his rematch against President Biden in the 2024 presidential election.
The presumptive Republican presidential nominee was responding to Haley’s comments that she would vote for Trump in two interviews after a major campaign rally in the Bronx, his first public comments since announcing the end of his White House campaign.
Haley, who was Trump’s final rival in the fiercely contested Republican primary before suspending her campaign more than two months ago, had not previously endorsed him. During a question-and-answer session after a speech at a conservative think tank in Washington on Tuesday, she was asked who is stronger, Biden or Trump, on national security issues.
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Nikki Haley, a former United Nations ambassador and former governor of South Carolina who ran for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination but withdrew in March, spoke at the Hudson Institute, a conservative think tank, in Washington, DC on May 22, 2024. (Hudson Institute)
“Trump is not perfect on these policies, I have made that clear many times, but Biden is a disaster, so I’m voting for Trump,” said the former two-term South Carolina governor and later ambassador to the United Nations under Trump.
But Haley, who has continued to win nearly 20% of the vote in Republican presidential primaries since withdrawing from the race, said Trump would be wise to reach out to the millions of people who voted for me and continue to support me.
“I appreciate what she said,” Trump said in an interview with Fox News’ Lawrence Jones on “Fox and Friends” that aired Friday.
“The party is united,” he stressed.
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moreover, News 12 interview “I think she’ll be a part of our team because we’re like-minded and like-minded in a lot of ways,” the former president said in New York.
“You know, our campaign was awful. It was pretty awful. But I think she’s a very capable person and I’m sure she’ll join our team in some way. Absolutely,” Trump said, recalling the heated conflict between him and Haley earlier this year.
Former President Trump held a large rally in the Bronx, New York City on May 23, 2024. (Spencer Pratt/Getty Images)
Haley Presidential Election She entered the presidential election in February of last year, becoming the first major candidate to challenge Trump, who had announced his candidacy three months earlier, and then earlier this year, pitting her against the former president in a fierce two-candidate contest that stretched from the New Hampshire primary in late January through Super Tuesday in early March, becoming Trump’s final rival.
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Trump has repeatedly attacked Haley, including with racist slurs, and mocked her husband for not campaigning, as he was deployed overseas at the time.
Former UN Ambassador and former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley with former President Trump. (Getty Images)
Haley has repeatedly questioned Trump’s mental state and accused the former president of being “mentally ill.”
Haley announced she would stop campaigning at the White House on March 6, the day after Trump won 14 of the Republican Party’s 15 nominating races on Super Tuesday.
Haley’s team had not responded to Trump’s comments by the time this article was published.
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