Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (D-Ga.) fiercely rejected the idea that former President Trump, the 2024 GOP presidential front-runner, would pick rival Nikki Haley to serve as his running mate in the general election.
“MAGA would revolt if Nikki Haley were to even be given an internship in Trump’s next administration,” Greene wrote on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, referring to supporters of Trump's Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement.
“She represents the neocon establishment America last wing of the Republican Party that we are absolutely done with,” she continued. “Also, she lied and said she would not run against Trump.”
Greene, who has frequently been seen as the face of Trump’s MAGA base, was responding to growing whispers of a possible Trump-Haley ticket, as the former South Carolina governor's support continues to grow among many Republican primary voters who have soured on the former president.
Haley, who now rivals Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis as Trump's closest contender in many national polls, has been a less frequent target of the former president’s ire — which has more often been directed at DeSantis.
Greene’s resounding rejection also comes after some high-profile figures have floated the hypothetical ticket in public appearances.
Lara Trump, the former president’s daughter-in-law, said Monday night that the former president is not ruling Haley out as a potential running mate. Trump is still leading in most polls by at least 30 points.
“Crazier things have happened,” Lara Trump told Newsmax’s Eric Bolling about a potential Trump-Haley ticket. “I don’t know, I would never say never with Donald J. Trump.”
About two weeks ago, former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said choosing a running mate is “about addition, not subtraction, so you’re not going to pick somebody that already equates to you.”
“Now if I was picking for purely political decisions, what it looks like today is the anti-Trump vote is going to Nikki Haley,” McCarthy said, adding that Haley looks like the person most able to consolidate the vote.
“Well, right now I think it would be Nikki Haley, in my view,” he added, when asked who the right person would be for Trump to pick up more votes. “But the question is: Who you select, will they serve? So that’s another question you have to have. And it’s about addition.”
