Nikki Haley says she'll support and not challenge Trump if he runs in 2024
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Former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley on Monday said she would back her onetime boss, former President Donald Trump, if he decides to run for the Republican Party's presidential nomination again in 2024 and not mount a bid against him.
"Yes," Haley, the former Republican governor of South Carolina, said in response to a question from The Associated Press during a news conference at South Carolina State University when asked if she would support another White House bid from Trump. Haley explained that she would not launch her own presidential campaign "if President Trump ran, and I would talk to him about it."
"That's something that we'll have a conversation about at some point, if that decision is something that has to be made," she said.
The comments from Haley -- considered one of the most high-profile potential 2024 contenders -- underscore the intense popularity that Trump still enjoys within the GOP. The former President has teased another White House bid in 2024 while also positioning himself as the Republican Party's kingmaker in the 2022 midterm elections.
Haley has often attempted to walk a fine line between allying with Trump and distancing herself enough to appeal to his more moderate critics. She notably left his administration in 2018 on good terms with him, a contrast with many other officials, who have publicly fallen out with their former boss.
But some of her sharpest criticism of Trump has come in recent months, following the January 6 insurrection.
"We need to acknowledge he let us down," Haley told Politico magazine in an interview published in February. "He went down a path he shouldn't have, and we shouldn't have followed him, and we shouldn't have listened to him. And we can't let that ever happen again."
Asked how Trump should then be held accountable, Haley replied at the time, "I think he's going to find himself further and further isolated."
"I think his business is suffering at this point. I think he's lost any sort of political viability he was going to have. I think he's lost his social media, which meant the world to him," she told Politico. "I mean, I think he's lost the things that really could have kept him moving."
But Haley struck a different tone about Trump on Monday, specifically defending his recent comments about top Republican leaders.
During a Republican National Committee donor retreat Saturday evening, the former President repeated familiar lies about the 2020 election and insulted Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, a person in the room told CNN.
"I think former President Trump's always been opinionated," Haley said at the news conference when asked about Trump's comments.
"Just because he left being president, that's not going to stop. But I think what he also talked about were all the successes that he had in the administration. And I think that's what Republicans are uniting on."
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The Republican Party is completely morally bankrupt. We need moderates and independents to acknowledge that and support the Democrats so we can move this country along in a positive way.
Republicans KNOW that Trump attempted to subvert the election and in fact to overthrow his own government and STILL they say they support him and will continue to support him.
This cannot be allowed to stand as the position of a major political party.
Once Haley, De Santis, and perhaps Noem realize that Trump is not re-electable, they'll change their minds.
When will Trump realize that Trump is not re-electable?
When he loses a primary?
You assume he can learn. He is still doing speeches about how he won the last election.
A couple of lost primaries won't stop him. It didn't stop him in 2016
I doubt Trump will lose a primary. The only way he will lose a Republican primary is if his legal troubles come into the open and there is such massive evidence of his corruption that it will convince even the Trump base of his criminality. As it is now , if Trump is convicted of a crime many of his followers will say he is being persecuted.
I still think they would vote for him. They don't care that he's a criminal. They like him because he's just like them.
Nikki is playing swill and spew games ... swallow at your own risk.
Straight, No chaser. Nickki Haley is a damn fool. Donald Trump is a narcissistic jerk who should not even be his own family's idea of a good leader. At-known, a country with 300M plus citizens. That she can not discern distinction between a decent, strong leader and a treacherous, strong man who has cause lives to be lost and freedoms to be abused and questioned, makes me disgusted with the mention of her!
NIKKI HALEY YOU ARE WEAK. GO AWAY!
... at 49, Nikki is going nowhere and can afford to wait until 2028 if 2024 is not available ... in no way is Nikki weak.
I used to think rather highly of her, then she showed her true colors and.....nope, no way I would vote for her.
Hi Hallux, @ 4.1.8. She doesn't stand for anything good regarding Donald. What does he have 'raw' political power. Is that all she about?
Exactly how I feel about her. I, too, used to think she would be a great POTUS, and then she started to express her feelings about certain things, ESPECIALLY backing Trump, and she lost me.
I agree that biologically she has time, but she may not have that much political time. If she's stays out of the news for that long, she risks becoming too anonymous to elect.
I hope she does stay out since Trump’s chances of winning another run for POTUS are next to none. I hope Trump scares every spineless piece of shit Trump wannabe away from the race.
I was thinking that very thing. For a while I really wanted Trump convicted of offences that prevented him from taking public office again, and finally I realized that I really don't think he would win in 2024 (even though he will still say he did and the election will have been "stolen" from him again), and that would assure that the duplicitous Republicans would not take back the White House.
Great, I agree that this should not happen again. So encourage the R party to eject Trump, engage in a regimen to clear the party of the Trump infection and nurse it back to health. Trump has done heavy damage to the R party and will continue to do so as long as people support him.
If he runs again he’s got my vote.
Be sure to make your donation to his PAC. Just ignore those pre-checked boxes, those don't mean anything.
Thanks, but i don’t take advice from,,,,,,,,,,,nevermind.
But by the looks of things..... maybe you should be taking advice from those that put country before party. Just a thought.
Well then i wouldn’t be taking advice from todays dems, would i? America last, right?
It should be America and Americans first, not foreigners. What American with a brain could possibly disagree with that? There are so many Americans that need help but what does dementia boy and giggle bitch do? Open up the borders, during a pandemic, so we can spread our limited resources even thinner. Great thinking, dems.
Lol, i knew responding to you would be a waste of time, see ya.
There aren't a lot of Republicans I wouldn't choose over Trump. If it were Haley v. Trump, that would be an easy call.
In the meantime, all sorts of people who would probably make better presidents support Trump because it's the nature of politics that you support the leading candidate of the party.
Donald Trump tried to overthrow our government. It boggles the mind that you think he is an acceptable presidential candidate.
I guess I shouldn't be surprised that you decided to completely disregard the main point of my comment and exaggerate something that was barely there.
Trump wanted Mike Pence on Jan 6th, to "throw the election back to the states" . Trump just reiterated that for the umpteenth time the other day. Pence had no authority to do that.
That is trying to overthrow the government. Going around the proper and acceptable procedures to try and achieve the result he wanted.
You can make excuses for any fucking moron you want, but you don't get to pretend it didnt happen.
biden has dementia. It boggles my mind that anyone would vote for him. And then there is giggle bitch who couldn’t win one single delegate, then was the first top tier candidate to drop out because her campaign was a mess. Anyone who would vote for those two clowns has impaired judgment and morals, imo.
Well Dr. Gazoo, when did you examine the patient? Or, alternatively, when did you read examinations from other qualified professionals who examined and then concluded that Biden has dementia?
Note that even mild dementia has symptoms:
Biden has confused his stories and misremembered for decades. Are you suggesting he has lived most of his adult life with dementia Dr. Gazoo?
Have you witnessed confusion (other than ordinary confusion like brain farts), memory loss (remember Rick Perry's memory loss ... ooops ... during a debate?), personality changes, getting lost, difficulty in planning and carrying out tasks?
And that would only be ' mild ' dementia.
Partisan-based medical ' diagnosis ' is simply another name for bullshit.
If Tacos! thinks Trump is an acceptable presidential candidate, based on his post @8, then he has a very strange way of expressing it. By my reading, Tacos! essentially said that of all the Rs (that would mean ALL of them) he does not think there are many (i.e. 'few') who would be worse than Trump.
To wit, to me he is suggesting that Trump sucks and that he sees no way he would ever vote for him.
It wasn’t always this way, there was a time when he was equal in the, uhh, you know, the thing. He stammers and stumbles with his lost thoughts behind his glazed over eyes. It’s easy to see no one is home. He is nowhere near the man he was even 5 years ago. but no, i haven’t read his medical records.
But i assume you have and will give your non-partisan report?
speaking of partisan, knock that shit off. You get on people’s cases for being “partisan” while being partisan yourself, and you probably don’t even see it.
Yeah, I mean I don't know if there are any Republicans who have that used-car salesman level of being full of shit like Trump does, or know as little about government and the law as he does. He excels there.
But I'm sure there are some others who are just so stridently racist, or have such a raging case of dementia, or who live to do nothing but irritate Democrats, such that even Trump would be better by comparison. So based on that, I equivocated a smidge. In reality I'm pretty sure I would vote for every other major Republican who has run in the last 50 years before I would vote for Trump. But historically, for JR, that has been the same as a ringing endorsement.
No, I make no armchair medical diagnosis of the man. I agree that he does not appear as sharp as he was when, say, running for V.P., but to call that dementia is pretty ridiculous. Biden was shaky during the early campaign but time he became the nominee, he was in the groove. He seems to be operating just fine right now so I do not know what you think you see. I suspect it is partisan induced.
Which party do I hold to? Which party do you think I parrot?
When speaking of me personally, Gazoo, you clearly do not have clue one. To a blinder-bound partisan, the independents look like 'the other side'; we get that crap all the time from both sides. Buy a vowel.
Actually I will buy the vowel for you. I wrote this an hour before your post @ 8.1.7 :
Fact is: Donald Trump is not simply 'coming' for democrats, he is coming for independents too. Indeed, Donald will 'mop' the floor with a set of republicans even - if they get in front of him. It is time to stop trying to tame 'unruly' fire. Donald Trump is the 'bum' we were all told to avoid at any cost in life.
How come independents don't recognize--I want Indies to understand--that Donald Trump uses other people to literally and figurative take the life's-worth of the citizens of this country. He won't admit to be sorry; he can not help himself without lying, and he appears to love none of 'us.'
Joe Biden is practically weeping his eyeballs out over the state of affairs in this country. When does right win. I am waiting for right to turn this country relatively level. The nation aspires to evolution. But, takes money from 'neanderthals' who promise to hold the country for a 'select' few originals.
There is a lot more ailing our nation than say, COVID. And COVID is really bad!
The independents I know all recognize this. Difficult for me to imagine someone who actually thinks critically about political matters (key to the concept of independent) to not understand that.
Thank you, TiG. It just seems some discussioners "straddle the fence" with Donald Trump (for their own benefits), but at any given juncture, Donald Trump is undiluted 'evil' - he injures and kills in his own fashion, but death and ruin are undeniably associated with this man!
(Sorry for the run-on sentence.)
In the four years of the Trump Administration , Donald Trump, in long analyses, will probably have done more negative harm to our diverse country than positive good! What of the country he, as president and man, could bend to this will he labored to do more so; what he could not shape or fashion of this country-he directed others to undermine, squash, sue in court, or ignore.
(Smile.)
Guess what, tig, i’m an independent too. And when you speak of me you have not one clue. And i could go into your partisanship but this is not the place.
Now we have two members playing the 'I know you are but what am I' game?
Interesting. I will keep that in mind when I come across your comments in the future. You wrote that Trump has your vote if he runs again, right?
That illustrates that you either do not understand the concept of political independent or partisan (or possibly both). Regardless, buy a vowel.
do they realize "independent" does not always have to be associated with "thought' and "reason", as "independent" of...?
“Now we have two members playing the 'I know you are but what am I' game?”
well, you looked so lonely playing it all by yourself i felt bad for you so i jumped in with ya.
“Interesting. I will keep that in mind when I come across your comments in the future. You wrote that Trump has your vote if he runs again, right?”
i sure did. Does that mean i have never voted for a dem or 3rd party candidate before? No. Like i said earlier, you know very little about me so don’t pretend otherwise. Ok?
“That illustrates that you either do not understand the concept of political independent or partisan (or possibly both).”
no, it illustrates that you are blind to your own partisanship. Don’t bother buying a vowel, you need the whole alphabet.
You are trolling. This would be a good time to cease.
Believe it or not your opinion is not the only opinion because i see you trolling. Look, it’s clear you don’t care for me and it should be ultra crystal clear that i don’t care for you. You don’t respond to my comments and i won’t respond to yours. See ya.
well, since it's an open forum and such, i'll do whatever i frckn feel like, as always, but that tiny hint of a threat....now that's just, so exciting. I hope it's ok if i continue to watch, read, and LAUGH....
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it's night
He won't admit to be sorry; he can not help himself without lying, and he appears to love none of 'us.'
Trump's star is dimming rapidly. Don't be fooled by occasional flare ups. It's doubtful he will run again. Very unlikely he would even get nominated. No chance in hell he would ever be reelected
This nation can do better. This nation needs to do better. No mo' Donald-types this nation simply does not have the time to expend cleaning up the 'carnage' left behind!
This is an exercise in cowardice. Only willing to say certain things or take actions when it is safe, not willing to actually take a risk or say/do something g because it needs to be done regardless of who it might piss off. That is not a leader and definitely not someone who should be in the Oval Office.
Don't underestimate Nikki Haley.
Right now she's just reading the tea leaves and observing how the political winds are blowing.
she's the perfect republican candidate. (they think) a minority woman that can pass for white and always lands on her back when challenged by any male republicans.
or her knees
oh hell....I'm gonna get some backlash from that aren't I?
... not from anyone that matters.
true dat
She knows Donald trump is not fit to be in office, has more or less said as much, but when push comes to shove admitted she will stand aside and do nothing. That is what cowards do.