Nikki Haley: Trump’s GOP Must Be Party For People Of Color And Immigrants, Too

South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley speaks at the Federalist Society's National Lawyers Convention in Washington, Friday, Nov. 18, 2016. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)
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South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (R) argued on Friday in an implicit rebuke of Donald Trump that the Republican Party must be a party for “all citizens, regardless of their race, gender or where they are born and raised.”

Speaking at the Federalist Society’s National Lawyers Convention in Washington, Haley said that the President-elect’s unexpected election victory “was not an affirmation of the way Republicans have conducted themselves,” as quoted by the Washington Post.

The report quoted Haley as saying that while she was never Trump’s “biggest cheerleader,” she saw his election as an opportunity for the GOP to remind voters that it will offer opportunities “to all citizens, regardless of their race, gender or where they are born and raised.”

“Republicans lost their way,” the report quoted Haley as saying, citing the party’s movement toward big government. “We have no one to blame but ourselves.”

On Thursday, the Post and Courier newspaper reported that Haley was scheduled to meet with Trump and that she was being considered for several posts in his incoming administration, including secretary of state.

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  1. I guess she didn’t get Bannon’s memo.

  2. Trump: She is done. I was going to give her a token position. WTF. She wants to play nasty. I am going to ship her back to wherever she came from. Also, I give her just 1. She is pathetic.

  3. Oh, Nimrata! Calling yourself by a Trumpesque call-girl’s name won’t keep you out of a Trump internment camp.

  4. I’d like to know what reality she thinks she’s living in?

  5. Good Luck with that
    Did you happen to notice anything that went on in the last 2 years?
    I didn’t think so.
    Repeat after me …
    I am not a token…
    I am not a token…
    I am not a token…

    They tolerate but never embrace

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