Will Nikki Haley Run For President In 2024? Only If Trump Won't

KEY POINTS

Nikki Haley would not mount a 2024 bid for presidency if Trump decides to run
Haley served as Trump's envoy to the United Nations from 2017 to 2018
She was one of the Republicans who called out Trump for his role in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot

Former U.S. ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley on Monday said she would consider a bid for president in 2024, but only if former President Donald Trump didn't run.

Haley, who also served as the first female governor of South Carolina from 2011 to 2017, said she would not run against her former boss and would instead support him if he were to mount a campaign for president.

"I would not run if President Trump ran," Haley said at a press conference. "And I would talk to him about it. You know, that’s something that we will have a conversation about at some point if that decision is something that has to be made. But yeah, I would, absolutely."

I asked @NikkiHaley if she would support Donald Trump if he runs again in 2024.

“Yes,” she told me.

“I would not run if President Trump ran, and I would talk to him about it,” she added. “That’s something that we will have a conversation about, at some point.”

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Haley acknowledged that she had not spoken to Trump since the violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. However, she said she had a “great working relationship” with Trump during her tenure as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations from 2017 to 2018.

“I appreciated the way he let me do my job," Haley continued. "I thought we did some fantastically great foreign policy things together. Look, I just want to keep building on what we accomplished and not watch it get torn down."

Haley was a loyal advocate of Trump’s policies. But she was also one of several prominent Republicans who publicly spoke out against Trump following the siege at the Capitol, which led to the death of five people.

“I think he’s going to find himself further and further isolated," she told Politico magazine in an interview in February. “I think his business is suffering at this point. I think he’s lost any sort of political viability he was going to have. I think he’s lost his social media, which meant the world to him. I mean, I think he’s lost the things that really could have kept him moving."

Other former Trump administration officials have revealed that they are eyeing a potential White House bid in 2024. They include former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, Florida Sens. Marco Rubio and Rick Scott, and Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton.