Nikki Haley DISGUSTING, explains her support of Trump

Speaker 1: Nikki Haley, the former  ambassador to the U.N. under Donald Trump,   former Republican governor of South Carolina. She  was Donald Trump's toughest challenger during the   primary in the sense that she secured the  most votes other than Trump. She's been a   significant Trump critic. But we all expected her  to. And she did ultimately kiss the ring and say,   yes, I'm supporting Donald Trump. However, she  regularly seems disgusted with the things that   Donald Trump actually says and does. So she went  on Face the Nation this weekend and was asked,   Why are you supporting Trump given all of these  different disagreements and things that he's   saying and things you don't like. And I'm going to  translate her answer as it's good for my political   ambitions. It is mere naked ego sand centrism that  is guiding Nikki Haley to support Donald Trump,   despite the fact that we can all tell she thinks  he's a doofus and doesn't like him on a personal   level. Okay. So let's go to the first clip.  See if you see if you can unwind what she says.  Speaker 2: It'll be helpful. Donald Trump just  finished a press conference, three quarters of   which was about grievances related to that  past conviction related to alleged sexual   assault. I know when you were campaigning,  you said you had no reason really to question   the findings of the jury related to the  defamation case brought by Eugene Carroll.   I'm not asking about the specifics of the case,  but if that's the focus of a press conference   for a presidential candidate, is it the best use  of his time? And what is the message to female   voters to be? Going through this again? Well, I  think the focus for me is on policy. I think he's   the candidate now. And I've always said, look, if  I thought Biden or Trump were great candidates,   I wouldn't have run for president. I ran because  I thought I could do a better job. You think he's   a good candidate? I, I think he is the Republican  nominee and I think put him against Kamala Harris,   who's the Democratic nominee. For me, it's not  a question. Now, do I agree with his style? Do   I agree with its approach? Do I agree with his  communications? No. When I look at the policies   and how they affect my family and how I think  they're going to affect the country, that's   where I go back and I look at the differences.  I mean, this is these are the candidates we have   been given. You look at Kamala Harris and it's  quite remarkable. She never had a debate. She   never had a primary. She never had anyone vote for  her. And they basically took her. And in 48 hours,   they put her back out there and she was this  whole new candidate. But the reality is,   she has a record. The administration  has a record. Trump has a record.   And so neither are perfect. Neither are ideal. Speaker 1: So she is making this decision with one   thing in mind. She sees that the the Republicans  who boisterously and loudly denounce Trump,   people like Adam Kinzinger, Liz Cheney, there was  Jeff Flake back during Trump's first term. There's   Mitt Romney. There's you know, you can go through  the whole list here. They are either people with   no political ambitions such that it doesn't matter  to them what the consequences are of saying, yeah,   I'm a Republican, but Trump is not for me. They  are retiring from politics like Mitt Romney,   or they end up losing and getting kicked out. I  mean, look at what happened to Liz Cheney and her   Republican primary because of the stand that she  took against Donald Trump. Nikki Haley sees this   and Nikki Haley is young enough that she still  does have political ambitions. It's not 75 or   however old. Mitt Romney is independently wealthy,  retiring. His career is over. What does he care?   It is a different situation for Nikki Haley. And  so we all know she finds Trump repulsive. We all   know that she personally despises the disgusting  attacks that Trump launched on her birdbrain and   all this other stuff during the primary. We know  that normal people wouldn't be called birdbrain   on a global stage by a guy for months and then  go, That's the guy I'm voting for. Even if you   don't like Kamala Harris, you might just say  nothing. You might just stay out of it. But   that is not what Nikki Haley is doing, because  although she knows Trump is bad for the country,   she doesn't care because what's more important to  her is are what's more important to her are her   own political ambitions. And she's calculated. I  just need to stay silent at this point with regard   to my disgust with Trump. And then when Trump  is gone, maybe it's 2028, maybe it's by January,   maybe it's who the hell knows when she wants to  be in a position to still be in the good graces of   the most number of Republicans that she can? Now,  she was also asked about J.D. Vance saying all of   these disgusting things about women. And she also  acknowledged there that a lot of that stuff is not   helpful. Not helpful is quite an understatement  for what J.D. Vance is doing to Trump's candidacy.  Speaker 2: We know that since Vice President  Harris entered the race, the gap among women   voters has grown to an out double digit lead for  her over Donald Trump. According to our CBS most   recent survey. So how do they close that?  Because just as recently as last week,   J.D. Vance said he's disoriented and disturbed  that the head of the most powerful teachers union   in the country doesn't have a single child.  He continues to say things that certainly are   highlighted as being offensive to women. That is  going to hurt, won't it? With female voters, it's   not helpful. It's not helpful. I mean, is he an  effective messenger for the policies you say they   are stronger on? I think the policy look, you can  either look at style or you can look at substance.   I choose as a voter to look at substance. Speaker 1: How you end up voting Trump with   substance as your priority. I don't know. Speaker 2: The style substance of that,   though. The substance is cutting taxes, making  housing more affordable. Immigration. National   security. That's the substance. 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 I have said  that, and I will continue to say to Republicans,   stop it. That's not helpful. Speaker 1: Cut it out, guys,   and I'm voting for all of you. Speaker 2: If you want to talk   about things, stick with policy. Americans  are smart. They don't need all the. Other   noise to distract them. They just want  to know how you're going to help them.   And they're you know what I would suggest  to every American? Look at the records of   each of them. You've got some stark contrast  there, you know. Harris was not strong on the   border. Trump was strong on the border.  Harris wanted to eliminate fracking.   Now she's taking that back. But energy production  was not as strong as it was under the tourism   industry. High right now, actually. But when? Speaker 1: Yeah, it's actually at a record high,   as Margaret Brennan points out there. So, listen,  this interview is a stark reminder of the reality.   And this is not a defense of Republicans  that a ton of the prominent Republicans   that are publicly supporting Trump don't like  the guy. They think he's bad for the country,   but they don't care. And we have to remember that  they can't then be rewarded later when they say,   now I'm running for something and Trump was a  mistake and all these different things. This is   the opportunity to actually have the testicular  fortitude, ovarian fortitude, to say this is   bad. I'm a conservative Republican, whatever that  means at this point to them, who knows? And I'm   just not going to vote for it. And this is the  wrong thing for the country and it's been the   wrong thing for our party. We've lost ever since  Trump eked out a win in 2016. We've essentially   lost everything. That's not what Nikki Haley  is willing to do. And we should remember that