Little bit of breaking news from the campaign trail,
with former President Trump's biggest former competitor for the Republican
nomination,
Nikki Haley, sharing who she plans to vote for in
November.
Listen,
Trump has not been perfect on these policies.
I've made that clear many,
many times.
But Biden has been a catastrophe,
so I will be voting for Trump.
Vaughn Hilliard is joining us now.
Vaughn, I'm old enough to remember when Nikki Haley was
warning of the dangers of a Donald Trump presidency after
2024. It was not a foregone conclusion that she would
come to this decision.
What changed for Nikki Haley?
I think a lot of this is,
you know, a similar story to 8 years ago,
right? She compared Donald Trump back during the 2016 campaign
to a kindergartner.
And she ended up working for his presidential administration as
the UN ambassador.
And then on January 6th,
she called it an ugly day and said those who
broke the law should be punished,
right? But then she ended up coming back around to
Donald Trump and she then announced that she was going
to run for the presidency herself and try to primary
challenge him. And there was a lot of tension during
the course of that primary campaign.
Her husband was deployed to
Africa, and Donald Trump made some comments about him.
And she was quite explicit at the time,
just calling the comments disgusting,
awful, unhinged that someone that makes such comments doesn't deserve
to be commander in chief.
She even went on to say,
quote, the most harm he's ever come across is whether
a golf ball hits him on a golf cart.
These were very tough words that were went from Nikki
Haley to Donald Trump.
Yet she finds herself in a position of
not having a clear political future.
And she during these remarks here said that Joe
Biden's administration has been a catastrophe.
And so in a one verse,
one option, she chose to go with Donald Trump.
She also said
that Donald Trump would be smart to reach out.
I'm quoting here to the millions of people who voted
for me and continue to support me and not just
assume that they're going to be with him.
I wonder, I know, I don't know yet because she
literally just said this like 90 seconds ago.
But I wonder if we will actually see Donald Trump
do that considering that to this point his attitude has
largely been and I'm,
I'm sort of paraphrasing it here like hey,
you're in or you're out.
Like here, it's it's this or nothing.
Twofold. Most of the time,
Donald Trump is eager to welcome anybody back into the
fray,
no matter how big of enemies they once were.
He welcomes anybody coming and essentially kissing the ring.
But then on the other hand of this is that
Nikki Haley was somebody who just two weeks ago he
was very explicit saying that she would not be under
consideration for the vice presidency.
A lot of his very close allies are very reticent
to Nikki Haley and do not trust her.
And so for Donald Trump,
he is largely looking at this campaign as one where
they believe they can rely on the base of support.
And they don't necessarily need to meet those independents or
reticent conservatives who willfully voted for Donald for Joe Biden
in the past.
But instead, if they can juice their own support,
they don't need to try to win over the support
of Nikki Haley type voters because they believe that they
have enough other type of Trump voters around the country
to make up for those that they may lose that
are more consider themselves like Nikki Haley voters alley.