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“U.S will have female president” in the event of Trump being Republican nominee says Nikki Haley
Haley maintained that the party that replaces their 80-year-old candidate on the ballot is the one that will win the election
Kamala Harris and Nikki Haley / Image – X/@kamalaharris/@nikkihaley
Republican presidential primary candidate Nikki Haley doubled down on claims that Joe Biden will be replaced as the democratic nominee for president on the ballot in November.
In a recent interview with Fox News, the former ambassador to the United Nations asserted that the U.S. will have a female president—either Kamala Harris or herself.
“Joe Biden will not be the nominee. I would make any bets about that,” she told the interviewers. “There is going to be a female President of the U.S. It will either be me or it will be Kamala Harris and if Donald Trump is the nominee, mark my words, we will see a President Kamala Harris,” she added.
Haley made a similar remark shortly after federal prosecutor Robert Hur, who was investigating Biden's handling of secret information while out of office, produced a report highlighting the President's "significant" memory impairments.
During the interview, Haley maintained that the party that replaces their 80-year-old candidate will be the winner. Her rivals, Trump and Biden, will turn 78-years-old and 82-years-old respectively later this year.
“We are talking about the most demanding job in human history. You don’t give it to someone who’s at risk of dementia,” she said during her state of the GOP address on February 20.
When asked if she considers herself the “insurance policy” for the Republican nominee in the event of Trump being unable to contest the elections owing to his lawsuits, Haley asserted that she sees herself as someone who can win the general elections for the party against the Democrats.
“I very much see myself as a Republican option that people can realize when you see that Donald Trump can’t win. And, you know, that we have to turn this country around, then I am your alternative.”
“When I defeat Biden by double digits, when I win swing states over Biden, that’s how you win a general election. You don’t win a general election sitting in a courtroom,” she said, enumerating the reasons why her opponent, Trump, will not be the ideal Republican candidate to win the November 5 election.
Haley also cited past poll data about the majority of Americans not wanting Biden and Trump to run for President in 2024.
In the interview, Haley also addressed Trump’s claims about Democrats donating to her campaign by dismmising them as “lies.” A Politico report states more than 5,200 donors who funded Biden’s 2020 campaign have backed Haley financially, 1,600 of them giving more than US $500,000 in January 2024 alone. However, her donor base remains largely Republican, the report stated.
Haley said 95 percent of her donors poured in $200 or less toward her campaign. “These are real grassroots American people who say, Please don’t let our only choice be two eighty-year-olds.”
She said the focus should be pulling people who have left the party back in. “We are pulling independents back, we are pulling Reagan Democrats back,” reiterating that Republicans need to remember that this is how they will win the election.
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