MILWAUKEE, Wis. – Former President Donald Trump’s final rival for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination is scheduled to speak at the Republican National Convention this week, in what is seen as a move to unite the party in the wake of the assassination attempt on Trump.
Former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, who served as ambassador to the United Nations under Trump, will now speak at the convention, a person familiar with the decision confirmed to Fox News on Sunday.
As of last week, Haley was not scheduled to attend the convention, which begins Monday in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
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Fiserv Forum will light up at night ahead of the 2024 Republican National Convention on July 12, 2024 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. (Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images)
“She wasn’t invited, and she’s OK with that,” Haley aide Cheney Denton said last week. “Trump deserves the convention he wants. She has made it clear she will be voting for Trump and wishes him the best.”
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But Republicans have rallied around their standard-bearer after a shooting at a Trump rally in western Pennsylvania on Saturday left the former president visibly bleeding after being grazed by an ear, one spectator dead and two seriously injured.
Former President Donald Trump, bleeding from the face, is escorted off stage by Secret Service agents during a campaign event in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13, 2024. Rebecca Droke/AFP via Getty Images (Rebecca Droke/AFP via Getty Images)
Haley Presidential Election She announced her candidacy for president last February, becoming the first major candidate to challenge Trump, who had announced his candidacy three months earlier. She was Trump’s final rival, battling the former president in a fierce two-candidate contest from the New Hampshire primary in late January through Super Tuesday in early March.
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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.
Republican presidential candidate and former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley announced she was ceasing her campaign activities in Charleston, South Carolina, on March 6, 2024. (Reuters/Brian Snyder)
As she dropped out of the race, Haley made it clear she would continue to speak out, and she continued to receive 20% of the Republican vote. Presidential primaries A few months after she dropped out.
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In late May, Haley, in her first public comments since announcing her 2024 presidential candidacy, said she would vote for Trump.
Haley won a total of 97 delegates in the Republican presidential primary, and last week she urged them all to release their votes and support Trump.
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