Former United States Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley
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“I wouldn’t introduce myself if President Trump showed up and talk to him about it,” Haley said he told The Associated Press at a press conference. “It’s something we’ll talk about at some point if that decision is something that needs to be made.”
Haley, a former governor of South Carolina, considered a potential candidate for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination, said he would support Trump if he ran for the White House.
But he also acknowledged that he had not spoken to the former president for quite some time. Asked about the last time she spoke with Trump, Haley said it was after the 2020 presidential election, but before Jan. 6, when a crowd of his supporters stormed the Capitol in an effort to disrupt certification. of election results.
Still, he said he had a “great working relationship” with Trump during his nearly two-year tenure as a UN envoy.
“I appreciated the way he let me do my job,” he said. “I thought we did some pretty fantastic things about foreign policy together, and look, I just want to keep taking advantage of what we’ve achieved and not see how it collapses.”
There is still undeniable tension between Trump and Haley. In an interview with Politico in the weeks following Jan. 6, Haley made a scathing assessment of the former president, saying it had been a mistake for Republicans to listen to him and predicting he would find himself “increasingly isolated” in the coming years. months and years.
In that same interview, he offered a clear assessment of his political future: “He will not run for federal office again.”
But nearly three months after the end of his first and only term in the White House, Trump has continued to play privately with the notion of a 2024 return campaign, a reality that has frozen other GOP presidential candidates while wait to see what he decides.
Haley is not the only student in the Trump administration looking at a possible White House candidacy in 2024. Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo
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Other potential GOP candidates are the governor of Florida. Ron DeSantis
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Haley’s statements on Monday provided perhaps the clearest indication so far of what Trump’s possible entry into the Republican presidential contest could mean for the very political prospects of potential rivals. He remains the most influential figure in the modern GOP, and competing with him in a primary contest is seen by many Republicans as a risky venture.