If there was ever any doubt that this was not the party of Donald J. Trump, it has ended. Friends and former enemies alike have realigned behind the MAGA platform.
But four months after she ended her bitter battle against him for the Republican presidential nomination, former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley appeared at the party’s national convention to finally endorse him as their candidate.Credit:Walking onto the stage to a mix of cheers and boos – with Trump politely giving her a standing ovation from across the room – Haley began by telling the crowd she was there to unify the party at the former president’s request.
The Democrats – led by an 81-year-old president many of them no longer have faith in – are in disarray, while Trump’s Republicans are more united than ever. Also on the bill was biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, who ran against Trump but was one of his staunchest defenders and will inevitably be rewarded with a spot in his cabinet should the former president be re-elected in November.And Texas Senator Ted Cruz was there too: he was Trump’s biggest rival in 2016, but refused to endorse him that year after Trump repeatedly insulted his wife, called him “lyin’ Ted” and fuelled claims that Cruz’s father was involved in the assassination of John F.
He’d called her “bird brain”, spread conspiracy theories about her heritage and questioned why her husband Michael – then deployed in Africa with the South Carolina Army National Guard – was never by her side. “We should acknowledge that there are some Americans who don’t agree with Donald Trump 100 per cent of the time. I happen to know some of them and I want to speak to them tonight,” Haley said. “Take it from me. I haven’t always agreed with president Trump. But we agree more often than we disagree.”
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