Brian Kilmeade, co-host of Fox & Friends, implied that former President Donald Trump and Nikki Haley will soon put their differences behind them, following the GOP front-runner’s several-minute tirade.
Kilmeade and his colleague Lawrence Jones questioned Trump over the phone on Fox & Friends, asking if a reconciliation with Haley was imminent via Mediaite.
“If the polls are correct, then you run the table, and you’re a week away from locking it up,” Kilmeade said. “Will there be any effort on your side to reach across and say, okay, just like Ted Cruz, just like Marco Rubio, Let’s make amends and fight on one side. Would you call her, reach out to her?”
Trump wasn’t exactly rushing to extend an olive branch.
“Look, she said she’d never run against me, and she did,” Trump said. “She said she beat Ron DeSantis in Iowa, and she didn’t. … She misrepresents a lot of facts. … She’s not doing very well against Biden. She shows these polls that nobody ever heard of. You got to tell the facts. You got to tell the truth.”
The former president did add, rather tepidly, “I want everybody to come together. We’re going to have a unified party because our real opponent happens to be named Biden.”
“Is this your call right now to say after tonight, ‘Nikki Haley, join me on stage for the good of Republican Party.’ Is that your request for her tonight?” Lawrence Jones asked.
“Look, there’s no path for Nikki,” Trump said. “I wish Nikki the best, but she stood up and many, many times, said, I’ve never run against our president. He was a great president, I would never run. And then she ran. So you know, those things you don’t like to see. You like to see people that are truthful. With all of that being said, our party has to come together because we have to beat the Democrats, and they play dirty.”
Despite the repeated taunts against Haley, Kilmeade suggested a new day is on the horizon.
“I sense the door’s open a little bit for reconciliation,” Kilmeade said.
