AFPNikki Haley
NOS Nieuws•vandaag, 03:46
Former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley, who hopes to run for the US presidency later this year, does not plan to running mate to become former President Trump. If the Republican does not convince her party to appoint her as a presidential candidate in the primaries, she does not intend to run for vice president, she said in conversation with voters in the state of New Hampshire.
“I have said from the beginning that I am not running to come second. I don’t want to be anyone’s vice president. That is really off the table,” he said in conversation with a voter in New Hampshire, according to American media. “I’ve always said that. That’s a game they play, but I’m not going to participate in that. I don’t want to be vice president.”
Haley has said many times before that “she is not running to come second”, but this is the first time that she has rejected the vice presidency so strongly. Trump said earlier this month that he knows who he is running mate would be if he were to win his party’s nomination, but he has not yet announced who that would be.
‘Nimbra’
Although he hasn’t said anything about it yet, it seems Trump doesn’t have Haley in mind. Although he made Haley a UN ambassador as president, there appears to be little love left between the two Republicans. Just today, Trump called her “Nimbra,” a mash-up of Haley’s birth name: Nimrata Nikki Randhawa. Trump is trying to draw attention to his opponent’s Indian background.
Haley is the daughter of Indian immigrants and Trump says she cannot become president because her parents were not American citizens when she was born in 1972. That is not correct, since Haley is indeed a born American and can therefore become president of the US. Trump previously sowed similar doubts about former President Obama, who according to him was born in Kenya, while in Hawaii.
“I leave it up to the people to determine what he means by these attacks,” Haley responded today to Trump’s suggestions about her family history. “What we do know is that he is clearly very insecure when he has these types of tantrums.”
Primaries
The state where Haley made her statements, New Hampshire, is the next state where primaries will take place. She is trailing Trump in the polls. In the previous state, Iowa, she suffered a major setback: Trump received by far the most votes and she finished in third place, after Ron DeSantis, who, like her, wants to be an alternative to Trump.
2024-01-20 02:46:12
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