Trump takes jab at former GOP rival Nikki Haley before praising her involvement with campaign: Helping us already
Former President Donald Trump highlighted during a “Fox and Friends” interview that he soundly defeated 2024 Republican presidential primary rival Nikki Haley, but that the former South Carolina governor and U.N.ambassador in Trump’s administration is “helping” him on the campaign trail.Trump, during an extended interview Friday morning on the popular Fox News Channel morning program, was asked by co-host Brian Kilmeade whether he has asked Haley to help him win over Republicans reluctant to support the former president.“I’ll do what I have to do,” Trump responded.Donald Trump stressed that he “beat Nikki [Haley] badly” during the Republican presidential primaries during a “Fox & Friends” interview Friday morning, while also adding that his former rival is “helping” his presidential campaign.“I’ll do what I have to do,” Trump said when asked if he would call on Haley to join the campaign trail, going on to emphasize, “Nikki Haley and I fought, and I beat her by 50, 60, 90 points.
I beat her in her own state by numbers that nobody’s ever been beaten by.I beat Nikki badly.”Haley launched her presidential campaign in February of last year, becoming the first major candidate to challenge Trump, who had announced his candidacy three months earlier.
And she ended up being his final rival, battling the former president in a contentious two-candidate showdown from the New Hampshire primary in late January through Super Tuesday in early March.Haley announced that she was suspending her White House campaign on March 6, the day after Trump swept 14 of 15 GOP nominating contests on Super Tuesday.As she departed the race, Haley made it clear that she intended to keep speaking out.And she continued to grab up to 20% of the vote in Republican presidential primaries in the months after she dropped out.In late May, in her first public comments since announcing the end of her 2024 campaign, Haley said she would vote for Trump.
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