Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley claims she is not “anti-Trump,” even as she asserts the GOP and the nation as a whole can do better than former President Donald Trump.
According to The Epoch Times on Saturday, Haley rejected the idea that she would make an independent bid for the White House while meeting with reporters on Friday in Washington, D.C., where it appears liberal Republicans may hand her the first victory of the primary campaign.
During the session, she claimed she is a “happy warrior” and that her campaign has been “where people want to be heard.”
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By that, Haley said, she meant Republicans who feel they’ve been drowned out and dismissed by Trump’s MAGA army.
As the Times reported, Haley “hopes to convince voters she’s someone who can lead the country in a better direction while casting herself as a ‘pro-America’ candidate who’s an alternative to the former president.”
“Everybody pretty much assumes that this is an anti-Trump movement, and it is actually not,” Haley told reporters. “This is a movement where people want to be heard.”
Continuing, Haley said Trump’s position is “if you’re not with me, you’re against me.”
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Against that backdrop, the Times noted, Haley “wants to help the Republican Party expand its appeal to more moderate voters who may recoil from President Trump’s tough-talking style of politics, which she suggested fuels division.”
“This is about the fact that I think America is better than this. And I think that the Republican Party is better than this, and I think we can do more than this,” she told the journalists.
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