Flashback: Nikki Haley Claimed Kamala Harris Will Be Elected If Trump Won GOP Nomination

Failed Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley previously predicted Kamala Harris would be elected if she faced off with President Trump in teh presidential election.

A resurfaced video shows Haley telling CNN host Jake Tapper, “The party that gets rid of their 80-year-old candidate is the party that will win. There will be a female president of the United States.”

Haley added, “It will either be me or it will be Kamala Harris. If Republicans nominate Donald Trump, it will be Kamala Harris.”

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🚨Nikki Haley: If Trump Is the Nominee — "Mark My Words, He Will Not Win a General Election"

“We will have a female president of the United States, it will either be me or it will be Kamala Harris."

Haley took to CNN to make her final pitch heading into South Carolina primary,… pic.twitter.com/SqhpHXlCwD

— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) February 23, 2024

🚨🇺🇸 Nikki Haley:

"There will be a female president of the United States, it will either be me, or it will be Kamala Harris."

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— AnyNews (@AnyNewsNow) February 17, 2024

Here’s what Mediaite reported:

Former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley, the last remaining challenger to Donald Trump in this year’s Republican presidential primary, predicted that Kamala Harris would be elected president if Trump beat her out for the GOP nomination earlier this year.

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On Fox News Tuesday afternoon, Martha MacCallum and Bret Baier recalled Haley’s comments while previewing Haley’s interview with Baier airing later in the evening.

In one interview with CNN’s Kaitlan Collins this past February, Haley mused “The party that gets rid of their 80-year-old candidate is the party that will win. There will be a female president of the United States. It will either be me or it will be Kamala Harris. If Republicans nominate Donald Trump, it will be Kamala Harris.”

“You know, looking back at some of these soundbites from Nikki Haley on the trail, some of them sound quite prescient. Let me just play one more, and then let me hear a little bit about what you’re looking forward to this evening,” noted MacCallum before playing another clip, this time of herself interviewing Haley.

“When we look at the situation, we will have a female president. It will either be me or it will be Kamala Harris. We have to respect- 70% of Americans said they don’t want a Biden-Trump rematch. The majority of Americans disapprove of Trump and disapprove of Biden,” said Haley at the time.

FLASHBACK: MSNBC criticized Nikki Haley when she said the following last year:

“The question before voters in 2024 is, to an unprecedented degree, whether they want Kamala Harris to be president, not vice president." pic.twitter.com/iZZ1wzc4XK

— Team Nikki Haley (@NikkiHaleyHQ) July 21, 2024

Per USA Today:

Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, who challenged Donald Trump in the Republican primary, said he should ‘quit whining’ about Kamala Harris if he wants to win in November.

As some polls show Harris gaining momentum in key swing states, Haley weighed in on Trump’s campaign strategy during a Fox News interview Tuesday. She said the Republican presidential nominee should ‘quit complaining’ that the vice president has not done a sit-down interview since launching her campaign. She added he should focus on policy instead of crowd sizes or personal attacks on Harris to win over moderate voters.

“We knew it was going to be her. She’s not going to give an interview. They’re going to hold out as long as they can. That’s their right. They can do it,” Haley told Fox’s Bret Baier. “That doesn’t mean we can’t talk about what she believes in. And we should be getting out there and doing that.”