(Daily Wire) Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley gave her most extensive remarks on her relationship with former President Donald Trump on Monday in Israel, just days after her Republican primary campaign rival predicted that Haley would “absolutely” be on his “team in some form” going forward.
Trump’s comments came just a day after Haley pledged to vote for him in November, despite the intense rhetoric used by the campaigns before she ended her presidential bid in March. Asked about how she could work with Trump going forward, Haley said you can’t take campaign fights “personal” and that what’s most important is working together for the country.
“I’ve always been able to take the emotion and the personal part out of politics because that is the only way you can do the right thing,” Haley said at a press conference during a tour of southern Israel. “This is about America. It’s about a strong America, it’s about a strong Israel. It’s about having the backs of our friends.”
Just days after Donald Trump said Nikki Haley would be on his “team in some form,” the former UN Ambassador gave her response.
“It’s not personal for me, this is about America.”
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Haley explained that voting to reelect President Joe Biden isn’t an option when comparing his policies to those of Trump.
“This is all about policy, and when you look at the policies of the two, I am very much on one side. It’s not even close,” she added. “We sparred in a campaign. If I thought either one of them were great, I wouldn’t have run. I ran because I thought I could do a better job, but at the end of the day, it is what it is.”
Haley’s comments came at a press conference in Sderot after she finished a tour of places in Israel attacked by Hamas on October 7. Her tour included Kibbutz Nir Oz, the site of the Nova massacre, a military base by the Gaza border, and the site of the now-destroyed police station in Sderot.
Haley positively reflected on her time in the Trump administration as the UN Ambassador, chalking it up to having the freedom to make decisions in the role.
“The goal was to make sure we knew who our friends were and who our enemies were, and I think the reason that he and I worked well together during that time was because he let me do my job, which was to call out our enemies, but we never forgot our friends, which is why we stood with Israel,” Haley said.
