Nikki Haley says the Supreme Court made the right decision in overturning the Colorado ruling that disqualified Donald Trump from the state’s 2024 presidential ballot.
The former United Nations ambassador says she “wants” Trump on the ballot even though she is far behind him in the race for the Republican presidential nomination.
In a unanimous 9-0 ruling Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court said Trump must remain on Colorado’s ballot and decided it is unconstitutional for a state to decide who voters can and cannot vote for in a presidential election. .
Speaking in Houston, Texas, on Monday, Haley said it was the right decision despite her main competitor’s big win.
Trump has a significant delegate lead over Haley and is essentially the presumptive Republican nominee. Still, Haley insists that he “will defeat Donald Trump fair and square.”
The former UN ambassador. Nikki Haley said Monday in Houston, Texas, that the U.S. Supreme Court made the right decision in overturning Colorado’s ruling to expel Donald Trump from the state’s ballot. She said, “Look, I’ll beat Donald Trump fair and square.” But I want it on that ballot.’
Anti-Trump protesters protest outside the US Supreme Court in February. The court decided Monday that Trump is eligible to run for president in the 2024 election.
Haley criticized Trump for not talking enough about his policies, but instead making the race a referendum on his presidency, while focusing most of his rallies on the demands and political objectives against him.
“All he did was talk about himself. And that is the problem. “This isn’t about him, it’s about the American people,” Haley lamented when she spoke to her fans the day before Super Tuesday. “And you see: I will always fight for every freedom you can have.”
“The Supreme Court ruled today that Donald Trump could remain on the ballot,” he said, to which members of the crowd booed and jeered.
But she interrupted: ‘No, I think that was important. We never want an elected official in a state or anyone else to say who can and cannot be on a ballot. This is America.’
‘Look, I will defeat Donald Trump fair and square. But I want it on that ballot,’ he insisted.
The promise, however, is far from reality.
After half a dozen primaries in the last two months, Trump has 244 delegates to the 43 that Haley has accumulated.
A candidate must win 1,215 delegates to win the party’s presidential nomination.
There are 874 delegates at stake in the subsequent Super Tuesday contest, where 15 states and American Samoa will cast their votes on Tuesday, March 5 during simultaneous primary contests.
“I’m not doing this for me; clearly I think I’ve made it clear that I’m not doing this to become vice president,” Haley said during her remarks in Texas, one of 15 Super Tuesday states.
‘I’m not doing this for a political career. If that were the case, I would have been here a long time ago,” he added.
The whole point of running, Haley said, is that “our kids deserve to know what normal feels like.”
Donald Trump made comments from Mar-a-Lago after Monday’s ruling
The Supreme Court’s decision in favor of Trump on Monday was a fatal blow to a group of states trying to remove the former president from the polls.
In an immediate reaction, Trump declared on his Truth social network: ‘GREAT VICTORY FOR THE UNITED STATES!!!’
The ruling effectively ends efforts in other states, including Illinois and Maine, to disqualify Trump from running in the 2024 general election over allegations that his conduct on January 6, 2021 amounted to an “insurrection.”
Colorado and the other states argue that under Clause 3 of the 14th Amendment, Trump participated in an “insurrection” and therefore cannot run for president.
While the High Court did not rule on whether Trump participated in an insurrection, it did say that only Congress can decide whether or not Trump is eligible to run, and the decision is not up to individual states.
