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Former President Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign was quick to blast new rival Nikki Haley on Wednesday, noting that she had praised Hillary Clinton in a 2012 interview and had initially vowed not to run for the White House if the former president was also a candidate.
Moments after Haley, the former South Carolina governor and ambassador to the United Nations, launched her presidential bid in Charleston, the Trump campaign sent out an email blast headlined: “The Real Nikki Haley.”
The message listed seven critiques of prior Haley comments, including her statement in April 2021 that she would support the 45th president, 76, if he chose to run again in 2024.
“I would not run if President Trump ran, and I would talk to him about it,” she said at the time. “That’s something that we will have a conversation about at some point, if that decision is something that has to be made.”
But Haley, 51, changed her mind, entering the race with a dig at “faded names of the past” — in an apparent reference to both the 80-year-old President Biden and the 76-year-old Trump, whose campaign did not say whether she reached out to the former president before making her decision.
“We won’t win the fight for the 21st century if we keep trusting politicians from the 20th century,” Haley said during her announcement.
