Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley on Wednesday said she shouldn’t be judged on her personal feelings toward Donald Trump as she attempts to appeal to voters as the best alternative to the former president.
“Let me just say this, you know, anti-Trumpers, don’t think I hate Trump enough. Pro-Trumpers, don’t think I love Trump enough. What you see is what you get. I just call it like I see it and wouldn’t it be nice if you weren’t gauged on whether you love or hate somebody, and instead where you think the country should go?” Haley told CNN’s Dana Bash.
“The media loves to sit there and say, ‘But you’re not hating them enough’ or ‘You’re not loving him enough.’ Look, at the end of the day, I look at it policy by policy. I don’t look at the personal side. I don’t look at the political side. I look at what’s going to get the country back on track,” she added.
Haley sat down with CNN for a joint interview with New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu a day after receiving his endorsement, a critical move that could strengthen the White House hopeful’s campaign as she attempts to take on Trump and the rest of the Republican primary field in the first-in-the-nation primary.
Trump maintains a significant lead over his rivals in both early state and national polls. Among likely voters in the Granite State’s GOP presidential primary, 42% say they would vote for him, followed by Haley at 20%, according to the latest CNN Poll conducted by the University of New Hampshire.
Haley emphasized that though she recognizes the strong support Trump has from voters, “chaos” continues to follow him.
“I think President Trump was the right president at the right time. I agree with a lot of his policies, but chaos follows him. Rightly or wrongly, chaos follows him. We can’t afford four more years of chaos and survive it,” said…
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