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Two months aft ending her White House bid, Nikki Haley volition huddle aboriginal adjacent week with immoderate of the apical donors to her Republican statesmanlike campaign, sources confirmed to Fox News.
The erstwhile two-term South Carolina politician who aboriginal served arsenic U.N. ambassador successful former President Trump's medication volition usage the two-day gathering Monday and Tuesday successful Charleston, South Carolina, to convey her large contributors.
But a root successful Haley's orbit says the erstwhile statesmanlike campaigner isn't expected to promote donors to lend to Trump's wide predetermination run and that nary endorsement of the presumptive GOP statesmanlike nominee is pending.
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Republican statesmanlike campaigner and erstwhile U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley announces she is suspending her run successful Charleston, S.C., March 6, 2024. (Reuters/Brian Snyder)
The quality was archetypal reported Thursday by the Wall Street Journal.
Haley launched her presidential run in February 2023, becoming the archetypal large campaigner to situation Trump, who had announced his candidacy 3 months earlier. And she was the last rival to Trump, battling the erstwhile president successful a two-candidate showdown from the New Hampshire superior successful precocious January done Super Tuesday successful aboriginal March.
Haley announced she was suspending her White House run March 6, the time aft Trump swept 14 of 15 GOP nominating contests connected Super Tuesday.
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However, Haley made it wide erstwhile she exited the Republican statesmanlike information race she intends to support speaking out.
"While I volition nary longer beryllium a candidate, I volition not halt utilizing my dependable for the things I judge in," she emphasized arsenic she spoke astatine her statesmanlike run office connected Daniel Island successful her hometown of Charleston.
To date, Haley has declined to endorse Trump.
Former President Trump, a Republican statesmanlike candidate, boards his level aft speaking astatine a run rally successful Freeland, Mich., May 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
"It is present up to Donald Trump to gain the votes of those successful our enactment and beyond it who did not enactment him. And I anticipation helium does that," Haley said successful March, arsenic she pointed to those who supported her during her White House run.
Haley has not spoken with Trump since exiting the race, the root successful her orbit confirmed to Fox News.
Some apical members of Haley's campaign, including immoderate from the fundraising team, are expected to be adjacent week's gathering. Haley and groups aligned with her run hauled successful implicit $160 cardinal from astir 300,000 donors.
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In a motion of imaginable occupation for Trump successful his wide predetermination rematch with President Biden aboriginal this year, Haley continues to drawback votes successful the Republican primaries adjacent though she's agelong gone from the statesmanlike information race.
Haley won astir 22% of the ballot successful Tuesday's GOP statesmanlike superior successful Indiana, which was unfastened to not lone Republicans but besides independents and Democrats.
Republican statesmanlike campaigner Nikki Haley, a erstwhile U.N. ambassador and erstwhile South Carolina governor, criticizes erstwhile President Trump astatine a rally successful Beaufort, S.C., Feb. 21, 2024 (Fox News/Paul Steinhauser)
Last month, Haley joined the Washington, D.C.-based Hudson Institute, a probe enactment focused connected overseas and home policy, nationalist security, economics and planetary relations.
"Nikki is simply a proven, effectual person connected some overseas and home policy," Hudson President and CEO John P. Walters said successful an announcement. "In an epoch of worldwide governmental upheaval, she has remained a steadfast defender of state and an effectual advocator for American information and prosperity. We are honored to person her articulation the Hudson team."
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During her White House bid, Haley advocated a muscular U.S. overseas argumentation to woody with planetary blistery spots specified arsenic the warfare betwixt Russia and Ukraine and the warring betwixt Israel and Hamas, often offering a stark opposition with Trump's America First docket of keeping the federation retired of planetary entanglements.
Haley traded occurrence implicit America's overseas relation with rival Vivek Ramaswamy, an advocator of Trump's America First philosophy, during the GOP statesmanlike superior debates.
Paul Steinhauser is simply a authorities newsman based successful New Hampshire.
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