Nikki Haley returned to the public eye Wednesday with a speech on foreign policy at the Hudson Institute, confirming she will vote for Donald Trump.
The former U.N. ambassador’s comments end the longest Republican holdout while warning her former boss and rival not to take her supporters for granted.Haley stipulated that “Trump has not been perfect” on the policies that drive her voting preferences — border security, maintenance of strategic alliances, and the need for “a president who would support capitalism and freedom.”
Those remarks followed a set-piece foreign policy speech in which she argued that the wars in Ukraine and Gaza flow from the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021. “Having said that, I stand by what I said in my suspension speech: Trump would be smart to reach out to the millions of people who voted for me, and continue to support me, and not assume that they’re just going to be with him,” she said. “And, I genuinely hope he does that.”
Haley didn’t specify the form that such a gesture to her voters should take. Trump, in response to media reports that suggested she could emerge as his vice presidential running mate in the fall,The former president’s Truth Social post gave Haley the social media dismissal that she avoided during her two-year tenure as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations — a political accomplishment in an administration in which multiple other senior officials wereby a presidential tweet.
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