A former Nikki Haley admirer expressed disgust for her endorsement of Donald Trump after calling him out as unfit for office.
The former South Carolina governor described Trump as "unstable" and "unhinged" on the campaign trail during her Republican presidential primary campaign, but she announced Wednesday she would be voting for him because she preferred his policies on immigration and foreign policy, and Republican strategist Sarah Longwell told CNN she was embarrassed for her.
"This is just so disappointing," Longwell said, "and here's the thing: Nikki Haley didn't just talk about Donald Trump being a loser like she did in those clips, she talked about the fact that he was he should not be president, he was unfit to be president, that he would side with [Vladimir] Putin in certain areas, that he was destroying the Republican Party also, Donald Trump, she said, when she conceded when she got out of the race, she said he's going to have to earn my vote and the support of my voters. He has done zero in that regard, he has treated them, in fact, like garbage."
Haley got nothing in return for her support, and Longwell said her political career appears to be in shambles.
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"I was a Republican for my entire career, I've always admired Nikki Haley, I always hoped that she would be president someday," Longwell said. "I sort of look forward to supporting her and I did support her in this primary against Donald Trump, and I thought that as her criticism got more pointed throughout the primary, I thought that she meant it. This isn't saying like the other guy's tax plan is bad, she was saying he was unfit, that Jan. 6 was going to be, that he was going to be judged for that."
"She seemed to understand what we were grappling with in terms of Donald Trump," she added, "and so to turn around and say that she's going to support him, creates a permission structure for a lot of other Republicans who think what he did was really bad but were thinking maybe I can't vote for this guy, and now she's basically saying, 'No, no, no, we can go ahead and vote for him because pure tribal partisanship,' and this is what's destroying this country. It shows a lack of character. It shows cowardice on her part, and I'm deeply disappointed in her."
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