Trump Shuts Down The Idea Of A Vice President Nikki Haley

At a Friday night marketing campaign cease, former President Donald Trump poured chilly water on the concept that his former United Nations ambassador Nikki Haley might be his 2024 operating mate

“She is not presidential timbre,” Trump stated of Haley, who has positioned herself as the primary rival to his successful the Republican Party presidential nomination.

“When I say that, that probably means she’s not going to be chosen as the vice president,” he stated.

“You can go and you can say certain things, and go, ‘I don’t like them, blah, blah, blah.’ But when you say certain things, it sort of takes them out of play, right?” Trump advised his New Hampshire viewers.

“I can’t say, ‘She’s not of the timbre to be a vice president,’ and then say, ‘Ladies and gentlemen, I’m proud to announce…’”

Haley got here in third in Iowa’s Republican major caucus final week, after Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. Both lagged far behind Trump.

Although Trump can be favored to win Tuesday’s Republican major in New Hampshire, polling information exhibits Haley is his largest menace within the state.

The former president has thus stepped up his assaults. On social media and on the marketing campaign path, Trump misspelled Haley’s Indian American start title, Nimarata, with the racist and false implication that she modified it to Nikki for political functions. (Haley has lengthy publicly passed by “Nikki,” her center title.)

Luckily for Trump, vice chairman is a job Haley doesn’t seem to need for herself.

Politico reported Friday that Haley appeared “slightly irritated” when she advised two diners at a New Hampshire restaurant marketing campaign cease that being vice chairman was positively “off the table.”

She has additionally ramped up her criticisms of her former boss, questioning his psychological health at a latest marketing campaign cease.

One one who does see herself as a candidate for that job, nonetheless, is Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.). She reportedly stated she can be “honored” to be Trump’s vice chairman whereas campaigning for him in New Hampshire on Saturday.

Trump appears to be open to the concept. At a Mar-a-Lago dinner final month, he reportedly nodded when her title got here up as a operating mate, saying: “She’s a killer.”