Nikki Haley tells Trump to ‘quit whining’ about Harris

Nikki Haley has warned Donald Trump that he needs to “quit whining” about Kamala Harris succeeding Joe Biden on the Democratic presidential ticket or face defeat in November’s election.

The former South Carolina governor – who served as US ambassador to the United Nations during the Trump administration before incurring the former president’s wrath by running against him for the Republican presidential nomination this year– appealed to Trump to focus on substantive policy issues rather than crude identity politics.

Speaking to Bret Baier on Fox News on Tuesday, Haley noted that she had foreseen the vice president succeeding Biden during her campaign.

“Republicans should not be surprised that we are now running against Kamala Harris. It was her all the time,” she said.

“There was no way Joe Biden, in the condition that we saw him, could take on the stresses of a presidential election. So that was something I believed in then. It’s why I constantly referred back to her, because I knew that Kamala Harris was the person that we had.

“And the one thing Republicans have to stop doing: Quit whining about her. We knew it was going to be her.”

Haley dismissed conservative complaints that Harris is yet to do a major sitdown interview since securing her party’s nomination, declaring: “You don’t need an interview from Kamala Harris. I take her at her word.

“I take her at her word that she wants to raise taxes for households over $100,000, that she wants to add a pharmaceutical tax and a healthcare tax.

“I take her at her word that she thinks that illegal immigrants should be able to vote and be given driver’s licenses. I take her at her word that she wants to ban fracking and kill a bunch of US jobs. Take her at her word.”

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