Nikki Haley Says Trump Is Clear Choice Over Harris

Despite being nearly absent on the campaign trail and taking exception with some of the former President’s rhetoric, Nikki Haley says that Donald Trump is the “clear choice” over Kamala Harris.

In a Wall Street Journal Op-Ed, Haley, who continued to receive votes in the GOP primaries once she withdrew from the race, urged undecided voters to look at both candidates’ policy proposals, which she said clearly showed Trump as the better option.

The former South Carolina governor wrote that she agrees with Trump most of the time — though he isn’t perfect — and disagrees with Harris “nearly all of the time.”

“That makes this an easy call,” she wrote as she slammed the Biden-Harris administration for several issues facing the country, including frustrating inflation, the soaring national debt, and poor national security.

Trump’s one-time political rival pointed to the porous southern border, chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan, Russia invading Ukraine, and the unchecked power of Iran and China under Biden’s watch as the numerous problems the country has faced over the last four years.

“The world is unsafe under Biden-Harris, and we shouldn’t expect that to change under a Harris administration,” the former US Ambassador to the United Nations under Trump penned. She admitted that Trump will do some things she doesn’t like if he wins a second term, but noted “no politician gets everything right.”

“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,” Haley wrote.

“On taxes, spending, inflation, immigration, energy, and national security, the candidates are miles apart. And Mr. Trump is clearly the better choice.”

Haley, 52, ran against Trump during the GOP primary but dropped out in March when Republican voters overwhelmingly showed they still supported the 45th president to run for the White House a third straight time.

Haley said that her WSJ Op-Ed was aimed at voters who have mixed feelings about Trump but will ultimately determine if the former President gets back into the Oval Office on Election Day.

“They like much of what he did as president and agree with most of his policies,” she wrote. “But they dislike his tone and can’t condone his excesses, such as his conduct on Jan. 6, 2021.”

On this eve of the 2024 election, Polling has shown Trump, 78, and Harris, 60, are in a dead heat in numerous swing states that are expected to decide which candidate reaches the 270 electoral votes needed to win the race.