Former Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley said in an interview broadcast on Sunday that she had not been asked by the Trump campaign to join the campaign.
“You support Donald Trump, you spoke at the convention, but will you be campaigning for him?” CBS' Margaret Brennan asked Haley on “Face the Nation.”
“He knows I'm on standby,” Haley said.
Haley was a sharp critic of Trump during the Republican presidential primary, after which the former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations called on the party to unite and get Trump elected in a speech at the Republican National Convention in July.
“You said you were on standby,” Brennan asked Haley. “In other words, you're not being asked by the campaign to advise them on debate preparations or speak to the campaign?”
“I don't think so. That's his choice,” Haley said. “Whatever he decides to do with his campaign, he can do it.”
In a speech at the Republican National Convention a few months ago, Haley told her fellow Republicans that “we must acknowledge that there are Americans who do not 100 percent agree with Donald Trump.”
“Believe me, I haven't always agreed with President Trump, but we agree more than we disagree,” she later added.
In the interview, Haley also said comments made by Trump's running mate, Republican Sen. J.D. Vance of Ohio, about women were “unhelpful.”
“Just last week, J.D. Vance said he was troubled and upset that the head of the most powerful teachers union in the country doesn't have any children,” Brennan asked Haley. “He continues to make statements that are clearly derogatory to women. Won't that be offensive to female voters?”
“That's not helpful,” Haley replied.
