Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley has stopped mincing words when it comes to her onetime boss. Former President Donald Trump is “not the same person he was in 2016,” she told “TODAY” co-host Craig Melvin in an interview Tuesday. “He is unhinged; he is more diminished than he was, just like Joe Biden’s more diminished than what he was.”
Those are some real fighting words from Haley, who served in Trump’s Cabinet and is his sole remaining competition for the presidential nomination. The outcome of that race most likely comes down to the GOP primary in Haley’s home state, South Carolina. In the run-up to the Feb. 24 vote, she has been hammering hard at Trump, but it prompts the question: Where was this energy when it really could have made a difference?
Where was this energy when it really could have made a difference?
Trump has so far run away with the early contests in Iowa and New Hampshire. Even in the Nevada primary, when Trump wasn’t on the ballot, Haley couldn’t manage a win: “None of these candidates” got more votes that she did. Things aren’t looking much better in South Carolina, where, despite her previous electoral success, Haley is still polling far behind him. But she’s got the support of donors who want to see her prevent a “coronation” of Trump, as she has frequently put it, and she is crisscrossing the Palmetto State to remind voters why she has never lost an election on her home turf.
Since her closer-than-expected finish in Iowa, Haley has been increasingly critical of Trump even as she has dismissed calls that she drop out. She has fumed at Trump’s suggestion that her husband, Michael, who is serving overseas in the National Guard, had left her, and she has suggested military families can’t trust Trump as commander in chief. She has just released a new ad that hits Trump for his support of Russia and claims he’d raise taxes. She has condemned recent comments in which Trump says he’d urge Russia to attack
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