- Rep. Elise Stefanik waved off any notion that Nikki Haley could be tapped as Trump’s working mate.
- Stefanik mentioned the prospect of Haley working as Trump’s No. 2 could be a “nonstarter,” calling her “disloyal.”
- The congresswoman has additionally been floated as a possible VP decide for Trump forward of November.
Rep. Elise Stefanik on Saturday dismissed Nikki Haley as a possible working mate for former President Donald Trump, arguing that the previous UN ambassador could be a “nonstarter” as his No. 2, based on The New York Occasions.
Whereas campaigning for Trump forward of subsequent Tuesday’s New Hampshire GOP presidential major, Stefanik, the chair of the Home Republican Convention, panned Haley’s probabilities as she depicted the previous South Carolina governor as disloyal towards the previous president.
Haley served in Trump’s administration as his UN ambassador, creating a novel dynamic within the race, as she has largely sought to keep away from criticizing her former boss on coverage grounds whereas making the Republican major a referendum on the way forward for the celebration.
However based on Stefanik, a New York lawmaker who’s solidly behind Trump’s presidential marketing campaign, the previous president is strictly what the GOP wants in 2024.
“I will let you know what’s unacceptable. Nikki Haley has been disloyal to President Trump,” Stefanik mentioned on Saturday throughout a cease at Trump’s Manchester marketing campaign headquarters. “She has been disloyal to the American folks. On the problems associated to election integrity, Nikki Haley was stealing Democrat[ic] speaking factors.”
Bought the primary query in throughout Stefanik gaggle and requested her about Trumps assaults on Nikki Haley’s identify. (Trump used Haley’s delivery identify in his Fact put up yesterday). pic.twitter.com/vK47NKKsvE
— Kellie Meyer (@KellieMeyerNews) January 20, 2024
“That is why you are seeing a lot assist, and as you see this shut out in New Hampshire, we’re in such a powerful place in assist of President Trump,” he continued.
NewsNation on Saturday requested Stefanik about her ideas on Trump utilizing Nikki Haley’s given first identify, Nimarata, in latest days.
Stefanik responded: “There’s quite a lot of backwards and forwards occurring.”
On the Poor Boy’s Diner in Londonderry, The Occasions reported that Stefanik mentioned Haley could be a “nonstarter” vice presidential candidate as a result of former governor’s assaults in opposition to Trump throughout the GOP marketing campaign.
Stefanik, who has served within the Home since 2015, has additionally been floated as a possible vice presidential decide, and he or she’s excessive on the record in Trumpworld alongside Ohio Sen. JD Vance, based on Axios.
Upon taking workplace, Stefanik had a demeanor and a voting document that mirrored the kind of center-right Republicanism lengthy outlined by the celebration’s legislators from the Northeast. However in recent times, Stefanik has grow to be one in all Trump’s most forceful congressional allies, and her now-viral questioning of three Ivy League presidents over antisemitism on school campuses — which led to the resignations of UPenn’s Elizabeth Magill and Harvard’s Claudine Homosexual — have solely elevated her standing in Trump’s orbit.
Earlier this month, Stefanik on NBC’s “Meet the Press” mentioned that she would not decide to certifying the 2024 presidential election outcomes, remarking that she’d have to attend and see whether or not the the end result of the competition is “authorized and legitimate.”
In latest weeks, former Trump White Home senior counselor Steve Bannon made related feedback about Haley, saying she’d trigger a second Trump administration to “fail.”
