Former President Donald Trump on Saturday threw chilly water on any hypothesis that he was contemplating ex-presidential rival Nikki Haley as his working mate, saying she was “not into consideration.”
Trump made the remarks on his Fact Social platform following an earlier Axios report, which cited unnamed sources, that the ex-president would contemplate Haley if he felt she might assist him win the overall election and canopy his authorized charges ought to he lose.
Simply hours after the article was printed, Trump went on-line to set the report straight on his vice presidential search.
“Nikki Haley will not be into consideration for the V.P. slot, however I want her nicely!” the previous president wrote.
Haley, a former South Carolina governor and onetime UN ambassador beneath Trump, exited the GOP major after the previous president received a number of primaries and caucuses throughout the nation on Tremendous Tuesday.
As a candidate, Haley sought to nudge Republican voters towards a future with out Trump, making a case that she’d be the face of GOP generational change whereas additionally trying to attraction to conservatives, moderates, and independents who had been leery of the previous president.
However Haley, much like former fellow challengers like Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, was unable to interrupt via Trump’s maintain on the GOP citizens.
Earlier in Haley’s marketing campaign, she largely steered away from direct assaults on Trump. However as the first contests neared, she took on the previous president straight, noting that his authorized troubles might endanger the GOP within the fall. She additionally introduced up his superior age.
When Haley left the race, she didn’t throw her assist behind Trump’s reelection bid and gave no timeline for a possible endorsement. Biden, who praised Haley after she ended her marketing campaign, has sought to attraction to her former supporters.
And regardless of her departure from the GOP race, Haley continues to win hundreds of major votes, notably in important suburban and exurban counties the place Democrats have made appreciable inroads in latest election cycles.
