Former Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley said she did not take in-fighting with former President Donald Trump personally over the course of the primary campaign season.
While in Sderot, Israel on Monday, Haley spoke with reporters about her relationship and frequent clashes with the former president. One reporter asked how Haley could manage to work with Trump moving forward should he be re-elected this November.
“I’ve always been able to take the emotion and the personal part out of politics because that is the only way you can do the right thing,” Haley said. "This is all about policy."
The former Republican presidential candidate then touted policies enacted throughout the Trump administration in comparison to President Joe Biden's administration.
"When you look at the policies of the two, I am very much on one side. It’s not even close," she said.
“We sparred in a campaign. If I thought either one of them were great, I wouldn’t have run," Haley continued. "I ran because I thought I could do a better job, but at the end of the day, it is what it is.” Just days after Donald Trump said Nikki Haley would be on his "team in some form,” the former UN Ambassador gave her response.
"It's not personal for me, this is about America."
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Later in the press conference, Haley was asked if she would accept a vice-presidential nomination from Trump.
"Trump has made it very clear that I am not [in the running]," she said, adding she doesn't speculate over things that "aren't reality." Nikki Haley was asked by Israeli press if she would accept if Trump asked her to be VP
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Earlier this month, Trump confirmed Haley was not in the running to be his running mate.
Haley suspended her presidential campaign in early March after winning a single state out of fifteen elections held throughout the primary season.
During a Wednesday question and answer session at the Hudson Institute in Washington, D.C., Haley was asked who she believed was better on national security between Biden and Trump.
Haley took a long pause before responding:, "As a voter, I put my priorities on a president who's gonna have the backs of our allies and hold our enemies to account. Who would secure the border — no more excuses."
"A president who would support capitalism and freedom," Haley continued. "A president who understands we need less debt, not more debt."
Haley referenced her previous criticism of Trump, noting the former president had not been perfect on the aforementioned policies.
"But Biden has been a catastrophe. So, I will be voting for Trump," Haley added.
However, Haley said she still stood by remarks she made during her campaign suspension speech.
“It is now up to Donald Trump to earn the votes of our party and beyond it who did not support him,” Haley said at the time. “At its best, politics is about bringing people into your cause – not turning them away.”
"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 gonna be with him," she said Wednesday. "I genuinely hope he does that."
