Nikki Haley, Who Ran Against Trump in the Primary, Will Now Talk at the Republican Convention on Tuesday
MILWAUKEE — Nikki Haley, a former U.N. ambassador, will talk at the Republican National Convention on Tuesday. It will be a big deal because she was Donald Trump’s last major opponent in this year’s GOP primary.
The news release On Saturday, someone opened fire at Trump’s gathering in Butler, Pennsylvania, and police are now looking into whether it was an attempt to kill the president. Trump said that the bullet went through the top of his right ear.
Chaney Denton, a spokesperson for Haley, said that she was added to the program after not being on the original list of speakers. Haley was also elected twice as governor of South Carolina. A Republican official who knows about the plans for the gathering but wasn’t allowed to speak in public confirmed the change in the schedule.
Last week, Denton said that the former governor of South Carolina was not invited to the conference. However, Haley told her delegates to vote for Trump and made a public call for the party to work together.
During the primary, Haley said that Trump was making things worse and not caring about how important U.S. relationships are around the world. When she quit in early March, she didn’t say she was going to vote for him. Instead, she waited more than two months before she said she was going to.
Trump, meanwhile, called her namesake “Birdbrain” over and over again, though he stopped calling her names after getting enough delegates in March to become the likely Republican winner.