Nikki Haley on Sunday downplayed Donald Trump’s lead in the polls, saying the American people are “tired” of the former president’s antics as she criticized his prospects of winning the 2024 election.
Trump, 77, the Republican Party front-runner, has been ahead of President Biden in a series of recent polls, but Haley, his former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, suggested he is a divisive figure and not the greatest possibility of winning for the match.
“I think Trump certainly has strong support. “I have always said that he was the right president at the right time and I agree with many of his policies,” he told “Fox News Sunday.”
“The problem is that drama and chaos follow, whether fair or not, they follow constantly and Americans feel it.”
Many of Trump’s rivals in the Republican presidential primaries have long made an electability argument against him, suggesting he cannot lead the Republican Party to victory in 2024.
However, a recent stretch of polls show him winning when he faced Biden in the general election.
Nikki Haley maintained that she would fight President Biden harder in the general election than Donald Trump.Fox News
Haley, 51, who served as Trump’s U.N. ambassador from 2017 to 2018, stressed that polls generally see her performing even stronger than Trump against the Democratic incumbent.
Nationally, Haley leads Biden by 2.7 percentage points, while Trump defeats him by 1.1 percentage points, according to the latest aggregate from RealClearPolitics.
Some state-by-state polls have put her in a stronger position. For example, a New York Times/Sienna College poll had her with a 9-point lead, while Trump had a 5-point lead.
“You [should] send someone there who doesn’t just outperform Biden by two or three points like Trump does. You have someone who beats Biden by between nine and 13 points,” Haley argued in the Fox News interview.
“I think people are getting tired of the drama, the chaos and the negativity.”
Donald Trump skipped the third debate in favor of a counterprogramming rally in nearby Hialeah, Florida.AP
The former South Carolina governor has seen an uptick in the polls since the first Republican debate in August.
His campaign has tried to present himself as a more viable alternative to Trump than Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.
DeSantis remains No. 2 in the Republican Party nationally and in Iowa, the leading state, where his campaign has invested heavily, boosted by a recent endorsement from Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds.
Haley’s campaign has noted that polls show her in second place in New Hampshire and South Carolina, which follow Iowa on the calendar.
Both contenders appear to be trying to secure second place, while waiting for Trump to finally falter. He has 91 criminal charges pending against him in four different cases, creating some uncertainty.
Ron DeSantis has long been in second place in the Republican primary, according to most national polls. AFP via Getty Images
Haley and DeSantis, 45, faced off in Miami last Wednesday for the third Republican debate of the cycle, where he dominated foreign policy.
After the debate, some worried that the candidates’ mouths were watering at the idea of war with Iran.
“It’s the complete opposite,” Haley responded when asked about the issue on Sunday. “A strong America does not start wars, a strong America prevents wars. “What we are trying to do is prevent more wars and I dealt with Iran every day at the United Nations.”
He also weighed in on concerns about the U.S. military’s dwindling military arsenal, in light of a recent New York Times article about how the U.S. focus on Ukraine and Israel could embolden China to attack Taiwan.
“If we do this right in Ukraine and Israel, we won’t have to deal with China. China is watching all this. and they fear [an] “America that supports its friends,” Haley argued.
There was a lot of tough talk about Iran during the third Republican debate focused on foreign policy. KHAMENEI.IR/AFP via Getty Images
Trump is overwhelmingly ahead in the GOP primary, averaging 58.5%, followed by DeSantis at 14.4% and Haley at 9%, according to the latest aggregate of national polls from RealClearPolitics.
The first contest is scheduled for Jan. 15 in the Iowa caucuses.
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