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Kamala vs nikki in 2024?

how former ambassador to

un broke with trump

Our Bureau over Congress’ counting of the Haley, however, predicted that lished Friday, Haley said in Jan-

New York Electoral College votes, as the Trump won’t run for federal of- uary she’s “deeply disturbed”
mob of supporters broke into the fice again and that the former by what’s happened to Trump
n a move that will have wide Capitol hoping to stop the certi- President will not have a future since the election, arguing “the
implications for American fication, some of whom chant- in the Republican Party. “I don’t person that I worked with is not
Ipolitics, former US ambas- ed death threats against Pence. think he’s going to be in the pic- the person that I have watched
sador to the United Nations “When I tell you I’m angry, ture,” she said. “I don’t think he since the election.”
Nikki Haley has criticized for- it’s an understatement,” Haley can. He’s fallen so far.” Haley’s presumed rupture
mer President Donald Trump told Politico. “Mike has been She continued, “Nor do I with Trump was received with
for his involvement stoking the nothing but loyal to that man. think the Republican Party is skepticism in political circles
US Capitol riot. “We need to He’s been nothing but a good going to go back to the way it with derisive remarks about
acknowledge he let us down,” friend of that man. ... I am so was before Donald Trump. I her opportunism in laying the
she told Politico magazine in an disappointed in the fact that [de- don’t think it should. I think ground for a 2024 run. Politi-
interview on Friday. “He went spite] the loyalty and friendship what we need to do is take the co writer Tim Alberta himself
down a path he shouldn’t have, he had with Mike Pence, that he good that he built, leave the bad wrote that since last fall, he had
and we shouldn’t have followed would do that to him. Like, I’m that he did, and get back to a spent nearly six hours talking
him, and we shouldn’t have lis- disgusted by it.” place where we can be a good, with Haley on-the-record and
tened to him. And we can’t let Asked how Trump should valuable, effective party.” also spoken with nearly 70 peo-
that ever happen again.” then be held accountable, Ha- In the long run, there is also ple who know her: friends, asso-
In the Politico piece, Haley ley replied, “I think he’s going the remarkable prospect of two ciates, donors, staffers, former
expressed anger over Trump’s to find himself further and fur- Indian-American women- Ka- colleagues.
treatment of former Vice Pres- ther isolated.” mala Harris and Nikki Haley- “From those conversations,
ident Mike Pence on January 6 The Senate could also con- vying for the presidential nom- two things are clear. First, Nik-
and said she hasn’t spoken with sider a vote of whether to bar ination of the Democratic Party ki Haley is going to run for
Trump since then. Trump at- Trump from serving in public and Republican Party respec- president in 2024. Second, she
tacked Pence on Twitter that day office, preventing him from tively. doesn’t know which Nikki Haley
for doing his duty of presiding running for reelection in 2024. In the Politico piece pub- will be on the ballot,” he noted.

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