Former president Donald Trump suggested that Nikki Haley would have a place on his team “in some form” – in what appeared to be his first public response to his former Republican presidential rival’s announcement that she will vote for him.
Trump, in an interview with News 12 New York after a Bronx campaign rally Thursday, was asked about the recent comments from Haley, who was U.N. ambassador under Trump, and whether there would be room for her on his team or even his ticket.
“Well, I think she’s going to be on our team because we have a lot of the same ideas, the same thoughts – I appreciated what she said,” Trump responded.
“You know we had a nasty campaign, it was pretty nasty,” he continued. “But she’s a very capable person, and I’m sure she’s going to be on our team in some form, absolutely.”
Haley’s team could not immediately be reached for comment early Friday.
Earlier this week, in Haley’s first public appearance since suspending her 2024 campaign, Haley said Trump should not take her supporters’ votes for granted.
“I will be voting for Trump. Having said that, I stand by what I said in my suspension speech,” she said Wednesday. “Trump would be smart to reach out to the millions of people who voted for me and continue to support me and not assume that they’re just going to be with him. And I genuinely hope he does.”
Trump “has not been perfect” on many key issues, she said, but President Biden “has been a catastrophe.”
Haley, who had been the only woman in the GOP contest and Trump’s final major rival for the Republican nomination, withdrew in early March, but stopped short of endorsing the former president.
Trump launched racially charged attacks against Haley as they faced off in the Republican primaries and mocked her husband, a member of the military who was deployed overseas. Haley questioned Trump’s mental fitness – and whether he was fit for office. In February, she said in an NBC interview that Trump “is not the same person he was in 2016” – calling him “unhinged” and “more diminished.”
Haley’s campaign suspension cleared the way for Trump to become the presumptive Republican nominee against Biden.
Trump, in the same interview Thursday, was also asked to share his top three contenders for running mate.
“Well we have so many, I don’t want to do that,” he said, before citing retired neurosurgeon and former Housing and Urban Development secretary Ben Carson, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio), and saying that the House Republican Conference chair, Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.), “is doing a fantastic job.”
“But I could go on for quite a long time,” Trump said, adding that a decision would probably come during the Republican National Convention, which takes place in Milwaukee in July.
{Matzav.com}
Big mistake. Haley is a slimy backstabbing snake.