Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley said she will vote for Donald Trump in the November election, even though she urged him to reach out to her supporters.
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Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley said she will vote for Donald Trump in the November election, even though she urged him to reach out to her supporters.
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Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, who ended her Republican presidential bid against former President Donald Trump, said at an event in Washington that she “will vote for Trump.”
Haley’s comments, the first she has spoken about the issue since she dropped out of the race in Marcharrived at an event at the Hudson Institute, a conservative think tank.
Haley, who served as ambassador to the United Nations under Trump, delayed endorsing her former boss for months, even after she herself abandoned her bid for the Republican nomination.
“Trump has not been perfect on these policies,” Haley said, describing a number of economic and foreign policy issues. “I’ve made it clear many times. But Biden is a disaster. So I’m voting for Trump.”
During his campaign, Haley describes Trump like “nothing has changed” and full of “chaos”. When she suspended her campaign in March, Haley said it was “now up to Donald Trump” to win over voters who had supported her.
She repeated that in her mind remarks at the Hudson Institute on Wednesday afternoon.
“Trump would be smart to reach out to the millions of people who voted for me and continue to support me, and not assume they will side with him,” she said. “And I really hope he does that.”
President Biden’s election campaign has achieved success clear bid for Haley voters, releasing an ad targeting them and saying, “There’s a place for you in my campaign.”
In a statement, a Biden campaign spokesman noted that “millions of Republican voters…continued to vote against Donald Trump in the primaries” and suggested that those voters should support Biden. .
Even after dropping out of the Republican primary, Haley still won significant support in several states her name remained on the ballot, receiving about a fifth of the Republican vote in states including Indiana, Nebraska and Maryland.
