Former President Donald Trump
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Is Nikki Haley Republican Party getting off track? The Republican Party consultant calls Haley the party’s favorite Republican support in 2024 for Trump to play a role in the party – up 18 points in early January, his former ambassador to the United Nations and a candidate for president in 2024, according to a source familiar with the matter.
The Politician reported for the first time that Haley contacted Trump on Wednesday to request a face-to-face meeting at his resort in Mar-a-Lago. But Trump declined after Haley had spent the past few weeks criticizing the former president for his role in the January 6 Capitol riots.
A Trump spokesman did not respond to a request for comment.
Trump has met with other Republican Party officials in Mar-a-Lago since leaving office, including the minority leader in the House Kevin McCarthy
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Haley left the Trump administration in 2018 and remained loyal to the then president, supporting his candidacy for re-election, as Republican Party sources predicted she would be a likely candidate in the 2024 primaries.
White House officials on several occasions had to quell speculation that Trump could replace then-Vice President Pence with Haley on the 2020 ticket.
But in the wake of the January 6 riots, when Trump supporters stormed the Capitol to interrupt certification of electoral votes, leaving one policeman dead and dozens injured in chaos, Haley simultaneously attempted to condemn the role of Trump without totally separating himself from the ex-president and his political base.
Haley said at the time that he felt that Trump “lost any political viability he would have” and questioned whether he would be a player in the future of the GOP.
She has since sought to calm things down with Trump publicly, criticizing the impeachment proceedings against him earlier this month and writing an article in the Wall Street Journal on Thursday that blamed the media for divisions among Republicans.
“People have a strong opinion about Mr. Trump, but we can recognize the reality,” she wrote. “People on the right may find fault with Trump’s actions, including on January 6. To the right or to the left, when people make these distinctions, they are not trying to do both. They are using their brains. “