‘President Trump and I Are United,’ says Nikki Haley
Indian American Republican leader Nikki Haley, the last person standing against her former boss turned rival, Donald Trump, in the not-so-competitive presidential primary race, has now come full circle.
Haley, the first person to get a cabinet rank as the US ambassador to the UN under then President Trump, is sending fundraising emails on the Republican candidate’s behalf, according to the National Review.
“I served under President Trump in his administration as the Ambassador to the United Nations,” Haley, who waited until after Super Tuesday to suspend her campaign, wrote in one fundraising email blast for Trump and his running mate Sen. JD Vance that went out Friday morning.
“It was clear then as it is now that the United States and the World are safer and stronger with President Trump in the White House,” the former South Carolina governor wrote.
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This fundraising pitch comes after Haley said she planned to vote for Trump in May at an event hosted by the Hudson Institute, where she now serves as the conservative national-security think tank’s Walter P. Stern chair, National Review noted.
Then in July, she took the stage at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee and urged her supporters to support his candidacy. “We should acknowledge that there are some Americans who don’t agree with Donald Trump 100 percent of the time. I happen to know some of them,” Haley said in her Republican convention speech. “You don’t have to agree with Trump 100 percent of the time to vote for him.”
The review said it’s unclear at this point in the race whether the 2024 Republican ticket plans to have Haley appear at Trump-Vance campaign events in the lead-up to Election Day. Earlier this month, Haley told CBS’s Face the Nation that she’s “on standby” to campaign for the Republican nominee.