After the US Capitol Protests and Violence?
The former South Carolina Governor and UN Amb lashed out at Donald Trump on several occasions……
That was then….
She is doing the foot work for a 2024 Republican Presidential nomination….
Speaking in Iowa tonight ….
Haley praised the same person she had pushed against for his actions connected to the violence inflected on the Capitol on January 6th of this year that has resulted in deaths and over 400 arrests …
She join’s her parties twisted view of reality finally…
It IS the only way to go forward with Republican voters….
What a shame….
“Thank goodness for Donald Trump, or we never would have gotten Kamala Harris to the border,” Haley said, poking at the vice president’s announcement that she would be traveling to the U.S.-Mexico border soon, ahead of Trump’s planned June 30 visit.
Haley later hailed Trump’s approach to foreign policy, saying she “saw firsthand as ambassador to the United Nations that Donald Trump put America first” and telling a humorous story about Trump’s decision to label North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un “Little Rocket Man,” saying it showed how the former president had “a way of getting people.”
The remarks represent a break for the former Trump cabinet member, who has vacillated in her approach toward Trump as she tests the presidential waters following his defeat. The early struggle to calibrate her position on Trump has penned Haley in between those in the GOP who are eager to move on from Trump and those who want to stick by him.
I’ve mentioned this on several occasions.
Look this is simple.
Nikki really thought(like Mitch McConnell and a few others) that after the Jan 6 insurrection surely Republicans would be aghast and abandon Trump.
Calculating such, she thought she could get out front as the “conscience” of the party.
Problem?
Most Republicans didn’t go in that direction and certainly didn’t abandon Trump.
Sensing her miscalculation ,she quickly tried to shift gears and sought to meet with Trump for a mea culpa.Trump,who never cared for Nikki and only appointed her UN Ambassador to get her out as Governor of SC so his buddy,then Lt.Gov.Henry McMaster could take over ,,wouldnt even see her.
Ever since Haley has been making complimentary remarks about her “Dear Leader” and in general sort of twisting in the wind?Back in S.C. ,where the state party remains overwhelmingly pro Trump ,she faces the prospect of a possible presidential bid by Sen. Tim Scott.
While Nikki appointed Scott to the Senate (he later was elected ) ,they have never been particularly close and many felt that the appointment was at the urging of party leaders who liked the optics.Also, Scott is regarded as more “reliable” than Haley on many issues that they are interested in.
Like I say,right now,Nikki is floundering with no apparent base of support for her expected presidential bid.
And eating a ‘shit sandwich’……
Hoping Trump will play out, eh?