Nikki Haley broke with former President Trump’s stance concerning IVF remedy, however nonetheless mentioned she was “on standby” to marketing campaign for the Republican nominee.
Haley, who was the final Republican presidential candidate to drop from the GOP race earlier than Trump turned the nominee, mentioned throughout an look on CBS’s “Face the Nation” on Sunday that she had spoken with Trump in June and that “he’s aware that I’m ready if he ever needs me” to marketing campaign for him.
With this election, Haley mentioned, “there’s a lot at stake” with two administrations asking to be re-elected. Her foremost considerations, she says, are her youngsters, with the price of dwelling and housing so excessive, the price of items up 20%, immigration and security “with foreign entities coming in and the threats we could face,” and power.
“And so there’s just a lot going on,” Haley advised CBS host Margaret Brennan. “To me, the stark contrast between a Trump and Harris administration are what led me to say, yes, I need to, you know, I’m going to be voting with Trump, and I’m going to speak at the convention. And so that’s what I did.”
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Nikki Haley mentioned she was on “standby” to marketing campaign for former rival, Trump. (Daniel Ceng/Anadolu by way of Getty Pictures)
Haley famous that Trump’s crew has not requested her to marketing campaign, and that she has not been advising him for debate prep.
“He can, you know, whatever he decides to do with his campaign, he can do that. But when I called him back in June, I told him I was supportive. I think the teams have talked to each other a little bit, but there hasn’t been an ask as of yet. But you know, should he ask, I’m happy to be helpful.”
Whereas voicing her total assist for Trump, Haley mentioned she disagreed together with his current pledge to mandate that both the federal government or insurance coverage corporations pay for in vitro fertilization, or IVF remedy, for girls.
“It’s not a policy I support any more than it’s a policy of Kamala Harris to remove private health insurance, or Medicare for All,” Haley mentioned.
Brennan interjected saying that Trump is head of the Republican Social gathering, however Haley shot again that “you also have to talk about the head of the Democrat Party.”
“When you talk about Medicare for All, when you talk about removing private health insurance, you might as well be Canada. You might as well look at socialist health care,” Haley mentioned. “We never want to get to that point, because you’re not going to get IVF or anything else, cancer drugs or anything else when it comes to that.”
Haley mentioned each of her youngsters are outcomes of fertility remedy.
Former President Donald Trump departing a marketing campaign occasion held on the Central Wisconsin Airport on Sept. 7, 2024 in Mosinee, Wisconsin. (Scott Olson/Getty Pictures)
“We want that option to be available to everyone. But the way you do it is, you don’t mandate coverage. Instead, you go and you make sure that coverage is accessible, and you make sure that you’re doing everything you can to make it affordable. That comes with regulations,” Haley added. “Kamala has put down – her and Biden put down a lot of regulations on a lot of things. Trump has relieved those regulations so that we need to have more of an important policy conversation than sound bites. And I do think this election has become about sound bites, and I think we have to get to the substance of it.”
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Brennan cited CBS polling as indicating that assist amongst feminine voters has grown to a double-digit lead for Vice President Harris over Trump since Biden stepped out of the race, clearing her to develop into the Democratic presidential nominee. She requested Haley whether or not Trump’s vice presidential working mate, Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, is contributing to the divide after remarks resurfaced final week of him highlighting how the top of probably the most highly effective academics’ union within the nation doesn’t have a baby of her personal.
Republican vice presidential candidate, Sen. J.D. Vance, R-Ohio, speaks in entrance of the border wall with Mexico on Sept. 6, 2024, in San Diego, California. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Pictures)
Vance’s criticism was directed at Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Academics, throughout a discussion board held by the Heart for Christian Advantage in October 2021 when he was working for Senate. Within the resurfaced clip, Vance acknowledged that “if she wants to brainwash and destroy the minds of children, she should have some of her own and leave ours the hell alone.”
“He continues to say things that certainly are highlighted as being offensive to women,” Brennan provided to Haley on Sunday. “That is going to hurt, won’t it, with female voters?”
“It’s not helpful. It’s not helpful,” Haley responded. “Look, you can either look at style, or you can look at substance. I choose as a voter to look at substance,” she added.
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“The substance is cutting taxes, making housing more affordable, immigration, national security, that’s the substance,” Haley elaborated. “The style is – no, it is not helpful to talk about whether women have children or whether they don’t. It’s not helpful to say any of those things that are personality-driven or anything else. I have said that, and I will continue to say to Republicans, ‘Stop it.’ That’s not helpful. You know, if you want to talk about things, stick with policy. Americans are smart. They don’t need all of this other noise to distract them.”
