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Asked if she would support Donald Trump if he secured the nomination, Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley said she would no longer be bound by the Republican National Committee's pledge to support the eventual nominee. When asked if he would support Donald Trump, he said, “I'll make the decisions I want to make.''
“So at the debate point, you had to bring the discussion to the point of, 'Do you support the candidate?' And in order to get on that debate stage, you had to say yes. ,” the former South Carolina governor said in an interview on NBC's “Meet the Press” on Sunday. “The RNC is no longer the same. He's not the RNC.”
As part of the criteria for appearing on the Republican primary debate stage, the RNC required presidential candidates to sign a pledge supporting the eventual Republican nominee.
“So does that mean you're no longer bound by that oath?” NBC host Kristen Welker asked Haley.
“No, I think I'll make whatever decision I want to make, but that's not what I'm thinking about,” she replied.
Asked to clarify whether she was leaning toward supporting Trump, Haley said, “I really don't think so.”
Haley's remarks came as the former governor was campaigning in states on Super Tuesday. She has vowed to remain in the Republican race through at least Tuesday, even though Trump's dominance in the nomination race so far this year has raised questions about her future path.
Haley told NBC that she once again believes that neither Trump nor Joe Biden should be president, but insisted that her candidacy does not represent the “No Trump” movement.
“If you talk about support, you're talking about loss. You don't think about that during a race. You don't think about losing. You think about continuing to move forward,” she said. I did.
And as the Republican nomination approaches, CNN previously reported that President Trump is already working to restructure the RNC to suit his wishes in the general election and beyond.
Haley has stepped up her criticism of the former president in recent weeks, drawing more delegates from the Missouri and Idaho caucuses and the Michigan convention on Saturday.
In an interview with CNN on Friday, Haley stressed that she is not “anti-Trump,” despite harsh criticism from her arch-rival, under whom she served as ambassador to the United Nations.
“The goal was always to go one-on-one with President Trump. What you hear me say now is the contrast. That's what people want,” Haley said. Told. “They want to know the difference. What I'm saying is, I'm not anti-Trump. I support America and the direction America is going.”
