Asserting that any Republican is better than US President Joe Biden and his running mate Kamala Harris, Indian-American Nikki Haley has said that the Republican nominee for the 2024 presidential elections is going to be her. Fresh out of the first Republican primary debate late last month, Haley told CBS News that she doesn\u2019t think that the party front-runner and former boss Donald Trump is going to be the presidential nominee. \u201cI don\u2019t think President Trump\u2019s going to be the nominee. I think it\u2019s going to be me. But I will tell you that any Republican is better than what Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are doing,\u201d Haley told \u2018Face the Nation\u2019 on CBS. \u201cThe American people are not going to vote for a convicted criminal. The American people are going to vote for someone who can win a general election. I have faith in the American people. They know what they need to do,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
However, the former South Carolina Governor said she will support Trump if he emerges as the eventual Republican nominee even if he is convicted, by saying she did not foresee that scenario playing out. A vast majority of Republican candidates, including Haley, had raised their hands at the primary debate stage last month when asked if they would support Trump if he were the ultimate nominee, even if he were a convicted felon. \u201cFirst of all, he\u2019s innocent until proven guilty,\u201d Haley told CBS News, explaining her support to the former President, who has been indicted in four criminal cases and has been charged with 37 violations of the US Espionage Act.<\/p>\n
Continuing her tirade against the US Vice President and fellow Indian-American, Haley said that she will ensure that the Republican nominee pick is someone that is \u201cgoing to beat a President Kamala Harris\u201d. Haley, who has maintained that a vote for Biden is a vote for his 2024 running mate, said that choosing Harris as president means \u201cnever getting our country back\u201d. \u201cI will support the Republican nominee always, and I will make sure that that person, we\u2019re going to pick someone that\u2019s going to beat a President Kamala Harris. Because we can\u2019t have a President Kamala Harris or we\u2019ll never get our country back.\u201d In the latest opinion poll by The Wall Street Journal, Haley took the third spot after Trump and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. Trump still tops the list of polls with 53.6 per cent followed by DeSantis at 13 per cent, Ramaswamy at 7.1 per cent and Haley at 6 per cent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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