Former President Donald Trump’s record and stated policies make him “clearly the better choice” this election, according to former UN ambassador Nikki Haley.
Haley made her closing pitch for Trump over Vice President Kamala Harris in an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal published on Sunday. Haley unsuccessfully challenged Trump for the Republican nomination this cycle and was a vocal critic of him on the Right, but described her endorsement of Trump an “easy call.”
“I don’t agree with Mr. Trump 100% of the time. But I do agree with him most of the time, and I disagree with Ms. Harris nearly all the time,” she wrote.
Voters need to consider their welfare under Trump versus four years of the Biden-Harris administration, according to Haley.
She mentioned the cost of living, the national debt, and national security, pointing out that each issue fared worse under the Biden-Harris administration than under Trump.
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A second Trump term “wouldn’t be perfect,” Haley conceded, “[b]ut I agree with Mr. Trump that we need to keep taxes low and cut them more. I agree that we need to roll back trillions of dollars in special-interest handouts. I agree that we need to expand American energy to empower our families and job creators while making us less dependent on foreign energy.”
Haley said that the question that voters should think about is not whether they agree with Trump on every issue.
“No politician gets everything right,” she said. “For those of us clear-eyed enough to see Mr. Trump’s flaws and honest enough to acknowledge them, the question is whether we’re better off with his policies or his opponent’s. On taxes, spending, inflation, immigration, energy and national security, the candidates are miles apart. And Mr. Trump is clearly the better choice.”
Haley endorsed Trump in a speech at the Republican National Convention in July, smoothing over the rift that had developed between the two during a bruising Republican primary. Haley previously served in Trump’s administration as the ambassador to the United Nations but fell out with the former president, criticizing him over his actions on January 6, 2021.