(Washington) – Former President Donald Trump, once again a candidate for the White House, confirmed on Saturday that his former Republican rival Nikki Haley is not among the people he is considering for the position of Vice President.
Speculation abounds about who the seventy-year-old candidate will nominate for vice president in the presidential elections in November against Democrat Joe Biden.
Among the most frequently mentioned names: Senators Tim Scott and J.D. Vance and New York elected official Elise Stefanik. But some rumors also mentioned the name of Nikki Haley, his latest challenger in the Republican primary.
“Nikki Haley is not one of the people I am considering for vice president,” the Republican candidate said on his social media site, cutting off speculation.
“But I wish him all the happiness in the world!” “, he added.
The choice of Nikki Haley, the former US ambassador to the United Nations, whom Donald Trump has long called a “birdbrain,” was a surprise.
But the former South Carolina governor is popular with moderate Republican and independent voters, votes that Joe Biden may take away from Donald Trump.
In response to a question from Agence France-Presse, the delegation accompanying Donald Trump refused to provide details about the profile preferred by the seventy-year-old candidate.
“Anyone who claims to know who or when President Trump will choose his running mate is lying,” one of his advisers said. “Unless that person’s name is Donald Trump.” »
