Nikki Haley Talks Trump, Ukraine, Polls at Campaign Stop in New Hampshire

At a town hall-type campaign stop in Rye, New Hampshire, on the evening of May 24, Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley fielded a question from a town resident who wanted to know how she was going to handle the inevitable, dealing directly with the former president and 2024 GOP frontrunner and a politician who does not play nice.

“I’m wondering, what is your game plan to punch the bully in the nose?” the man asked the two-term governor of South Carolina.

Haley, who served as ambassador to the United Nations in the Trump administration, started to respond, getting laughs, when she said, “Hi … how are you?”

She continued: “Look, I think there are many things that President Trump did that I agree with.  I was proud to serve in his administration. And the reason I got out of there without a tweet was because I told him the truth.

“When he was doing something right, I fought for him. I worked hard, and I did things that would make America proud. When he did something wrong, I showed up in his office or called him and said you can’t do this, but instead, you could do XY or Z. And I always gave him options, and he would say, ‘Well, l how do you see that playing out?'”