Former U.N. ambassador and former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, who ran for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination before ending her bid in March, gives an address at the Hudson Institute, a conservative think tank, on May 22, 2024 in Washington D.C. (Hudson Institute)
Haley launched her presidential campaign in February of last year, becoming the first major candidate to challenge Trump, who had announced his candidacy three months earlier. Additionally, she was the final rival to Trump, battling the former president in a contentious two-candidate showdown from the New Hampshire primary in late January through Super Tuesday in early March.
Haley announced that she was suspending her White House campaign on March 6, the day after Trump swept 14 of 15 GOP nominating contests on Super Tuesday.
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However, Haley made it clear when she exited the Republican presidential nomination race that she intended to keep speaking out.
And to date, Haley has declined to endorse Trump.
"It is now up to Donald Trump to earn the votes of those in our party and beyond it who did not support him. And I hope he does that," Haley said as she exited the race two months ago.
President Biden speaks from the Oval Office of the White House Thursday, Oct. 19, 2023 about the war in Israel and Ukraine. (AP/Jonathan Ernst/Pool)
Pointing to the Biden administration's recent temporary pause of a shipment of heavy bombs to Israel over concerns that the weapons would be used in attacks on Palestinian civilians in Gaza - where the death toll has topped 35,000 - Haley argued "I can hardly imagine a more foolish move than Joe Biden withholding weapons from one of our closest allies. And it comes after more and more Democrats have turned on Israel."
And Haley charged that "Joe Biden’s legacy is already clear. He will go down in history as the Commander in Chief who refused to stop our enemies."
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But Haley also fired away at her own party, saying that "just a few weeks before Biden threw Israel to the wolves, many Republicans in Congress tried to push Ukraine off a cliff. All told, 112 House Republicans voted against military aid to Ukraine."
Haley claimed that "some Republicans lack… clarity when it comes to Ukraine. Russia’s dictator has made it perfectly clear that he won’t stop at Kyiv. He wants to recreate the Soviet Union, and he’s threatened to attack our NATO allies. We are obligated to defend them, and if Russia attacks, American troops will go to war. We must do everything possible to ensure that doesn’t happen."
Republican presidential candidate and former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley speaks as she announces she is suspending her campaign, in Charleston, South Carolina, March 6, 2024. (REUTERS/Brian Snyder)
During a question and answer session following her speech, Haley announced that she would be traveling to Israel in the coming weeks.
Haley also said that after ending her campaign, "the first thing I did was catch up on my sleep. I quickly got back to running, which I missed during the campaign."
And she added that she's spent more time with her parents, her children and her husband, who recently returned from a long military deployment overseas.
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