GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley mentioned at a Fox Information city corridor on Sunday America wants a president who can serve eight years “fully working, fully disciplined and ready to get the job done” as she cites polling exhibiting 70% of People are not looking for former President Trump or President Biden in workplace.

Haley’s city corridor comes forward of the Feb. 24 South Carolina major, the place she is going to face off in opposition to Trump.

Regardless of serving as Trump’s former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, the previous South Carolina governor didn’t maintain again on her makes an attempt to persuade the folks of her state that she would make a greater president than Trump.

“I look at where we started, there were 14 candidates in the race,” Haley mentioned. “We’ve defeated a dozen of fellas. I just have one more fellow to catch up to. And through it all, there have been naysayers and that’s okay. I’m used to being an underdog.”

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Republican presidential candidate former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley speaks at a marketing campaign occasion in Spartanburg, S.C., Monday, Feb. 5, 2024. (AP Picture/Matt Kelley, File)

She mentioned that going into Iowa, she polled at 2% and completed virtually second at 20%, then in New Hampshire, she completed at 43% of the vote.

After the New Hampshire outcomes got here in, Haley mentioned, Trump had “a temper tantrum,” including that he was unhinged as a result of he didn’t know she would get 43% of the vote.

“The night that we got 43% of the vote, President Trump literally became unhinged and went on a temper tantrum,” she mentioned. “And all he did was talk about revenge. And then the next day he said, anybody who who supported me was barred permanently from MAGA.”

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Haley requested the group to consider Trump’s menace to bar folks from MAGA, saying main into an election, you attempt to convey folks into your nook and never push them out.

Like lots of her speeches, she additionally pointed to Trump’s push for the Republican Nationwide Committee to call him the presumptive nominee after two states voted.

“He pushed the RNC to name him the presumptive nominee, and he got pushback on that,” Haley mentioned. “We don’t anoint kings in this country. We let the people vote.”

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Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley criticized former President Donald Trump throughout a city corridor on Sunday. (Al Drago/Bloomberg through Getty Photographs)

Relatively than discuss in regards to the American folks or points just like the $34 trillion in debt the nation is going through, Haley accused Trump of speaking about being a sufferer and getting his revenge.

“Trump never talked about the American people … All he did was talk about himself,” she mentioned.

Haley additionally took digs on the Republican Celebration, inserting the blame for the nation’s $34 trillion debt not simply on Biden, but additionally on Republicans, blaming Trump for placing the nation into $8 trillion debt in simply 4 years, and saying that lower than 25% of the debt amassed beneath Trump occurred due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

“The first thing we have to understand is Republicans and Democrats put us into this mess, and we’ve got to call them both out for getting us into this mess,” Haley mentioned. “Whether it was the spending, whether it’s the borrowing, whether it’s all of the things that they’ve done, we are $34 trillion in debt. We’re having to borrow money just to make our interest payments.”

“We’re paying more in interest payments than we are in our defense budget,” she continued. “You know who pays attention to that? Russia, China and Iran. So we’ve got to start pulling out of that. The way we do that is we start with our economy. We claw back $100 billion of unspent COVID dollars that are still sitting out there, instead of 87,000 IRS agents going after middle America. Go after the hundreds of billions of dollars of COVID fraud, one out of every $7 was spent fraudulently. If 8% of our budget is interest, quit borrowing. Cut up the credit cards.”

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Republican presidential candidate and former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley speaks at a rally in Dallas, Thursday, Feb. 15, 2024. (AP Picture/Tony Gutierrez)

The previous South Carolina governor additionally cited current feedback from Trump by which he mentioned any NATO nation that doesn’t pull its weight wouldn’t be defended by the U.S. and that he would encourage Russian President Vladimir Putin to invade these international locations.

“When you look at what Putin has done. We have to remember Russia is not our friend,” Haley mentioned. “If Putin’s mouth is open, he is lying and we need to be aware of that. And I think that’s why it was so damaging when Trump said that he would choose Putin and actually encourage Putin to invade NATO allies instead of standing with our allies that stood with us at 9/11.”

“I will absolutely put the hammer on our NATO countries, that they do have to carry their weight,” she added. “But you do that behind closed doors. You do that and let them know that the United States is not going to carry the burden. But you don’t do it in the eyes of our enemies.”

She not too long ago accused Trump of siding with a “thug” and dictator who arrests political opponents and American journalists and holds them hostage.

“[Putin] has made no bones about the fact that he wants to destroy America,” Haley mentioned on Sunday. “And so the best thing we can do with Russia is let them know we’re on to them, and make sure that they know we’ll hold them to account on anything they do. And that includes hurting our allies.”

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Haley additionally knocked Trump and Biden for his or her outdated age, mentioning that each males are round 80-years-old.

“About 70% of Americans right now say they don’t want Biden or Trump in this election,” she mentioned. “The majority of Americans disapprove of Joe Biden. The majority of Americans disapprove of Donald Trump. Both of those men put us trillions of dollars in debt that our kids are never going to forgive us for. And are we really going to put all of our problems and issues in the hands of two 80-year-olds running for president? We need someone who can serve eight years fully working, fully disciplined and ready to get the job done. We can’t go and take the chance of doing this with two 80-year-olds.”