After rumors about who he will choose as his running mate for the elections, the former president clarified that it will not be Nikki Haley.
He former president of the United States Donald Trumpwho is running again as a candidate for the White House, assured this Saturday that Nikki Haley, a former rival in the Republican race, is not one of the people he is considering for the position of vice president.
Looking ahead to presidential election to be held in November in the US, predictions abound about who the republican party candidate as his running mate against the current Democratic president, Joe Biden, who seeks re-election.
Among the names that circulate most are the Senators Tim Scott and JD Vance and the New York legislator Elise Stefanik. But some rumors also mentioned Haley, his latest rival in the Republican primaries. In the last hours, Trump denied this assumption.
Nikki Haley and Donald Trump.
“Nikki Haley is not under consideration for vice president,” he said. the Republican candidate on his social network, truncating speculation. “But I wish him the best!” he added.
Haley’s choice, former US ambassador to the UNwhom Trump has long nicknamed “birdbrain,” an insult that literally translates as “bird brain,” would have come as a surprise given the tense exchanges they had on repeated occasions.
However, the former governor of South Carolina is popular among moderate and independent Republican voters, votes that Biden could take from Trump. This factor made her a possible candidate according to different analysts.
“Anyone who claims to know who or when President Trump will choose his vice president is lying,” one of his advisers told the press. “Unless that person’s name is Donald Trump.” For his part, the man who aspires to a new mandate stated that Won’t name names before Republican national convention scheduled for July 15.
Source: Ambito
