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Nikki Haley Critiques Trump Campaign’s Strategy One Week from Election


Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley is offering a critique of former President Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign strategy just one week before Election Day.

Haley, who challenged Trump during the GOP presidential primaries before dropping out and later endorsing him, suggested during an interview on Fox News’ Special Report w/ Bret Baier on Tuesday evening that the ex-president’s campaign was making a mistake by pushing divisive rhetoric in the final days of the election.

“It has got to be a story of addition,” Haley said. “This is not a time to have anyone to criticize Puerto Rico or Latinos. This is not a time for them to get overly masculine with this bromance thing that they’ve got going. 53 percent of the electorate are women.”

“Women will vote,” she added. “They care about how they’re being talked to and they care about the issues. They need to remember that. This is a time of discipline and this is a time of addition.”

Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley visits “Special Report with Bret Baier” at FOX News D.C. Bureau in Washington on October 29, 2024. Haley offered advice for former President Donald Trump’s campaign during her Fox appearance…


Haley questioned the decision to allow comedian Tony Hinchcliffe refer to Puerto Rico, a U.S. territory, as a “floating island of garbage” during Trump’s rally at New York City’s Madison Square Garden on Sunday.

The incident ignited a firestorm of controversy, prompting some Latino leaders to demand a personal apology from Trump and promise to vote against the Republican ticket.

“It’s harmful,” said Haley. “There’s no reason to have a comedian at an election campaign event that had so much energy and so many good issues. Why have a comedian that separates people?”

“This isn’t about people being sensitive,” she continued. “I mean, Puerto Ricans, that’s personal for them. They take that personally.”

Trump’s campaign has said that Hinchcliffe’s joke “does not reflect the views of President Trump or the campaign,” while the ex-president himself has so far refused to directly address the joke, telling ABC News instead that he did not “know” the comedian.

Haley went on to say that Trump’s “bromance and masculinity stuff… borders on edgy to the point that that it’s gonna make women uncomfortable.”

“You’ve got affiliated PACs that are doing commercials about calling [Vice President Kamala Harris] the ‘C’ word,” said Haley. “You had speakers at Madison Square Garden referring to her and her ‘pimps.’ That is not the way to win women.”

Newsweek reached out for comment to the Trump campaign via email on Tuesday night.

Tuesday was not the first time that Haley has warned Trump about his campaign rhetoric, with the former ambassador saying during an interview Fox News host John Roberts earlier this month that the former president needs to choose his words more carefully.

“The best thing he [Trump] can do is let them feel secure on what he’s going to do with the economy, what he’s going to do with the border, what he’s going to do in terms of wars in the Middle East,” she said. “If you’re talking about whether Kamala is dumb, if you’re talking about, you know, Haitians eating cats—you’re losing them.”



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