THE HILL
Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley on Sunday appeared to dismiss the endorsements of former President Trump by elected officials from the former governor’s home state of South Carolina, claiming she does not “want” them.
Haley, speaking at a rally in Conway, S.C., addressed the swirling questions from the media about Trump’s stacked endorsements from political figures in the Palmetto State.
“So the press asked me, ‘Well, what do you think about the fact that your … governor in South Carolina came and stood behind … Donald Trump with all the other South Carolina elected officials?’” Haley said, an apparent reference to South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster (R), who served as lieutenant governor under Haley.
“And I said, ‘I’m sorry, do you mean the one I defeated when I ran for governor?’” Haley continued.
McMaster lost to Haley for state governor in 2010 and was later elected lieutenant governor under Haley in 2014. He then assumed the office of governor in 2017 when Haley resigned to become a United States ambassador to the United Nations and went on to win two full four-year terms in 2018 and 2022.
