{"id":1875,"date":"2024-01-20T13:27:39","date_gmt":"2024-01-20T13:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/20\/trump-says-nikki-haley-probably-not-his-choice-for-vice-president\/"},"modified":"2024-01-20T13:27:39","modified_gmt":"2024-01-20T13:27:39","slug":"trump-says-nikki-haley-probably-not-his-choice-for-vice-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/20\/trump-says-nikki-haley-probably-not-his-choice-for-vice-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump says Nikki Haley ‘probably’ not his choice for vice president"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former President Donald Trump<\/a> has most likely ruled out presidential primary rival Nikki Haley as a vice-president.<\/p>\n

Trump made the comments about Haley \u2014 who he appointed as the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations during his term in the Oval Office \u2014 at a Friday rally in Concord, New Hampshire<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“She is OK, but she is not presidential timber. And when I say that, that probably means she is not going to be chosen as the vice president,” Trump said.<\/p>\n

NIKKI HALEY SAYS SHE DOESN’T WANT CHRISTIE’S ENDORSEMENT, DOESN’T THINK SHE NEEDS IT<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Trump said he did not have faith in the former U.N. ambassador’s<\/a> ability to handle tough negotiations with leaders of rival countries.<\/p>\n

“I know her very well. She’s not tough enough. She’s not smart enough. And she wasn’t respected enough. She cannot do this job,” he continued. “She’s not going to be able to deal with President Xi. She’s not going to be able to deal with Putin.”<\/p>\n

Trump remained cryptic with his remarks, saying immediately after the “presidential timber” comment that such a public statement meant he wouldn’t be able to walk back the evaluation of her character.<\/p>\n

DESANTIS PUSHES BACK ON MEDIA NARRATIVE HE’S ‘SKIPPING’ NEW HAMPSHIRE AFTER CAMPAIGNING IN SOUTH CAROLINA<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

“When you say certain things, it sort of takes them out of play, right?” the former president taunted. “I can\u2019t say, \u2018She\u2019s not of the timber to be the vice president\u2019 and then say, \u2018Ladies and gentleman, I\u2019m proud to announce that I\u2019ve picked.'”<\/p>\n

Haley made a parallel promise on the same day while stopping at a diner in Amherst ahead of the state primary<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“I don\u2019t want to be anybody\u2019s vice president. That is off the table,” Haley said. “I have always said that. That is a game they play that I\u2019m not going to play. I don\u2019t want to be vice president.”<\/p>\n

Haley, down by double digits to Trump in the latest surveys four days ahead of the New Hampshire primary, is taking every chance she has to blast the GOP front-runner<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“You look at Iowa. I mean President Trump won a state of three million people with 56,000 votes. We had a very low turnout in Iowa. We\u2019re going to have a really good turnout in New Hampshire,” Haley told reporters at her first retail stop Friday morning as she pilloried Trump’s landslide victory in Monday’s Iowa caucuses.<\/p>\n

During a campaign event in Rochester, Haley criticized Trump for his past support for increasing the federal gas tax and raising the retirement age and accused him of lying about her record.<\/p>\n

Fox News Digital’s Paul Steinhauser contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Former President Donald Trump has most likely ruled out presidential primary rival Nikki Haley as a vice-president. Trump made the comments about Haley \u2014 who he appointed as the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations during his term in the Oval Office \u2014 at a Friday rally in Concord, New Hampshire. “She is OK, but … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}