Former White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci took former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley to task for her endorsement of Donald Trump.
Haley, who served as Trump’s ambassador to the U.N., unsuccessfully challenged the former president for the Republican nomination, whom she called unfit for office. In response, he repeatedly demeaned Haley’s intelligence by calling her “Birdbrain.” Trump also suggested that Haley’s husband – a National Guardsman who was deployed to Africa this year – left the U.S. to get away from her.
On Wednesday, Haley endorsed the ex-president, stating, “I will be voting for Trump.”
“I’m disappointed in Governor Haley,” Scaramucci said on Friday’s episode of The Situation Room on CNN. “She knows the danger. She’s smarter than what she’s doing right now. But there’s no backbone in her decision. She’s obviously been influenced by these campaign apparatchiks and these campaign consultants that tell her, ‘Hey, you better support Donald Trump [or] you have no future in that party.’”
Scaramucci noted that Haley notched 20% of the primary vote against Trump and insisted she could have helped form “a new center-right party that dropped the hatred, dropped the threat of violence, dropped the threat of persecution.”
He went on to say that President Joe Biden’s campaign should reach out to disaffected Haley voters and present them with a black-and-white choice.
“But if I were the Biden people, I’d say, ‘Hey, this is a binary election, this is democracy first. Are you a patriot first and a partisan last? Come join us so that we can keep this system of government, this great American experiment working for the American people as well as it’s worked over the last 250 years.’”
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