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Trump’s campaign rival decides between voting for him or

Biden
Nikki Haley says Biden has been 'a catastrophe. So, I will be voting for Trump'
By Paul Steinhauser Fox News

Published May 22, 2024 5:23pm EDT | Updated May 22, 2024 6:11pm EDT

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Trump says Nikki Haley is not up for VP consideration

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Former U.N. Ambassador and former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley in her first public ,

comments since announcing the end of her 2024 Republican White House campaign, said
she will vote for former President Trump in his 2024 rematch with President Biden.

Haley, who was Trump's last rival in the GOP primaries before suspending her campaign
more than two months ago, and who has not endorsed the former president, was asked
during a question-and-answer session following her address Tuesday at a conservative
think tank in the nation's capital whether Biden or Trump was stronger on national security
issues.

"Trump has not been perfect on these policies. have made that clear many, many times.
I

But Biden has been a catastrophe. So, I will be voting for Trump," Haley said.

But Haley, who continues to grab up to 20% of the vote in Republican presidential
primaries two months after ending her bid, said "Trump would be smart to reach out to the
millions of people who voted for me and continue to support me."

WARNING SIGNS FLASH FOR BOTH TRUMP, BIDEN AHEAD OF FIRST PRESIDENTIAL
DEBATE

Former 2024 GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley speaks at the Hudson Institute, a conservative think tank, on May 22,
2024, in Washington, D.C. (Hudson Institute)

Haley launched her presidential campaign in February last year, becoming the first major
candidate to challenge Trump, who had announced his candidacy three months earlier.
She was the final rival to Trump, battling the former president in a contentious two-
andidate 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.

WHAT KIND OF FUTURE DOES HALEY HAVE IN TRUMP-DOMINATED GOP?

However, Haley made it clear when she left the Republican presidential nomination race
that she intended to keep speaking out.

And to date, Haley has declined to endorse Trump.

now up to Donald Trump to earn the votes of those in our party and beyond it who did
"It is
not support him. And I hope he does that," Haley said as she got out of the race two
months ago.

The Biden campaign, reacting to Haley's comments regarding Trump, continued to make a
pitch for Haley supporters.

"Nothing has changed for the millions of Republican voters who continue to cast their
ballots against Donald Trump in the primaries and care deeply about the future of our
democracy, standing strong with our allies against foreign adversaries, and working
across the aisle to get things done for the American people – while also rejecting the
chaos, division and violence that Donald Trump embodies," Biden campaign
communications director Michael Tyler said in a statement. "Only one candidate shares
those values, and only one campaign is working hard every day to earn their support – and
that’s President Biden's."

Former President Trump speaks during a campaign rally in Wildwood, New Jersey, on May 11, 2024. (Hannah
Beier/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

During her speech on Wednesday, Haley targeted Biden and Republicans in Congress, but
she didn't mention Trump by name.

Instead, Haley said that "a growing number of Democrats and Republicans have forgotten
what makes America safe."

Haley made her comments as she gave her first address at the Washington, D.C.-based
Hudson Institute, a conservative think tank known for focusing on international affairs and
national security.

Haley – who during her White House run advocated a muscular U.S. foreign policy to deal
with global hot spots such as the war between Russia and Ukraine and the fighting
between Israel and Hamas, which was often in stark contrast with Trump's America First
agenda of keeping the nation out of international entanglements – joined the institute a
month ago as a senior adviser.

"A loud part of each party wants us to abandon our allies, appease our enemies and focus
only on the problems we have at home. They believe that if we leave the world alone, the
world will leave us alone. They even say ignoring global chaos will somehow make our
country more secure," Haley said.

And she warned that "this worldview has already put America in great danger, and the
threat is mounting by the day. I have always spoken hard truths. If we don’t remember the
path to peace, war will come to America, and it will claim countless lives. We have to
prevent war. We have to keep Americans safe."

Haley trained most of her verbal firepower on the Democrat incumbent in the White House.

President Biden (AP/Jonathan Ernst/Pool/File)

Pointing to the Biden administration's recent temporary pause of a shipment of heavy

bombs to Israel over concerns that the weapons would be used in attacks on Palestinian
civilians in Gaza, where the death toll has reportedly topped 35,000, per the Hamas-run
Health Ministry, Haley said, "I can hardly imagine a more foolish move than Joe Biden
withholding weapons from one of our closest allies. And it comes after more and more
Democrats have turned on Israel."

And she said "Joe Biden’s legacy is already clear. He will go down in history as the
commander in chief who refused to stop our enemies."

But Haley also fired away at her own party, saying that "just a few weeks before Biden
threw Israel to the wolves, many Republicans in Congress tried to push Ukraine off a cliff.
All told, 112 House Republicans voted against military aid to Ukraine."

She said "some Republicans lack … clarity when it comes to Ukraine. Russia’s dictator has
made it perfectly clear that he won’t stop at Kyiv. He wants to recreate the Soviet Union,
and he’s threatened to attack our NATO allies. We are obligated to defend them, and if
Russia attacks, American troops will go to war. We must do everything possible to ensure
that doesn’t happen."

Nikki Haley announces the suspension of her presidential campaign in Charleston, South Carolina, on March 6, 2024.
(Reuters/Brian Snyder)

During a question-and-answer session after her speech, Haley said she will travel to Israel
in the coming weeks.

Haley also said that after ending her campaign, "the first thing I did was catch up on my
sleep. quickly got back to running, which I missed during the campaign."
I

And she added that she's spent more time with her parents, her children and her husband,
who recently returned from a long military deployment overseas.

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Paul Steinhauser is a politics reporter based in New Hampshire.

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