Former President Donald Trump was the only candidate officially running in the Republican Party’s 2024 presidential campaign until Tuesday, when Nikki Haley—a former South Carolina governor and his former United Nations ambassador—launched her own 2024 bid.
Trump responded to Haley’s political announcement with a statement on his campaign website titled “The Real Nikki Haley.” In the statement, Trump criticized Haley for her stances on such issues as border security and the war in Ukraine.
Border Security
“Haley is Weak on Immigration and Does Not Support a Border Wall,” Trump wrote in one section of the statement. He then said Haley had been critical of ending birthright citizenship and building a border wall. Trump cited an example of Haley using a 2016 State of the Union response speech to criticize his border policy proposals. Trump raised those particular issues on border and immigration policy just months after the Republican Party won a narrow House majority with border security as their top priority….