Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley says there may be zero likelihood of her turning into the vice presidential nominee alongside former President Donald Trump.
Talking with Fox Information’s Bret Baier in Mt. Nice, South Carolina, in the course of the ultimate days of her campaigning within the state.
“We’re gonna see what occurs tomorrow,” Haley advised Baier. “However look, the issue when folks say, ‘Why is she doing this? Why is she doing that?’ At first, they had been like, ‘She’s doing this as a result of she needs to be vice chairman.’ I feel ’we’ve just about settled that. I’ve mentioned it for months, it’s carried out.”
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Republican presidential candidate former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley speaks at a marketing campaign occasion in Beaufort, South Carolina. (AP Picture/Meg Kinnard)
“I wouldn’t be doing this if I used to be anxious a few political future,” she added. “I might’ve gotten out already. I’m doing this making an attempt to get up our nation.”
Trump beforehand acknowledged throughout a Fox Information townhall that Ron DeSantis, Tim Scott, Vivek Ramaswamy, Kristi Noem, Bryon Donalds and Tulsi Gabbard are on his operating mate shortlist.
Trump has many occasions reiterated that he has dominated out Haley as his operating mate, regardless of some Republicans who had hoped for a mixed ticket.
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Former US President Donald Trump speaks in the course of the 2024 NRB Worldwide Christian Media Conference Presidential Discussion board in Nashville, Tennessee. (Brett Carlsen/Bloomberg through Getty Photographs)
Requested on Friday if she could be prepared to drop out of the Republican major with a view to group up with Democratic candidate Rep. Dean Phillips on a unity ticket, Haley mentioned no.
“I’m operating as a Republican. I’m operating making an attempt to wake folks up that, in the event that they nominate Donald Trump on this major, we’ll lose a common election,” Haley mentioned.
The Trump marketing campaign predicted an “a**-kicking within the making in South Carolina” for Haley, and that “the tip is close to” for her presidential run resulting from “a really critical math downside” she has within the race to lock up sufficient delegates to win the 2024 GOP nomination.
Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley, a former two-term South Carolina governor who later served as U.N. ambassador, takes purpose at former President Trump in a speech in Greenville, South Carolina. (Fox Information Kirill Clark )
South Carolina is Haley’s residence state, the place she beforehand served as governor.
Haley has already misplaced the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire major to Trump, however has mentioned she has no plans to get out of the race.
Fox Information Digital’s Brie Stimson and Paul Steinhauser contributed to this report.
