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Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley hinted Tuesday that Donald Trump is trying to influence this years election results by promoting his former campaign adviser and daughter-in-law for top posts at the Republican National Committee.
The former South Carolina governor, who was U.N. ambassador in the Trump Cabinet, made the suggestion a day after Trump endorsed his onetime campaign adviser as the next chair of the RNC and his daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, as co-chair.
Think about whats happening right now, Haley said at a campaign event in her hometown of Bamberg, South Carolina. Is that how youre going to try and take an election?
Lara Trump, whos married to Eric Trump, and Whatley are supporters of the former presidents baseless conspiracy theory that the 2020 election was stolen from him.
Longtime RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel is reportedly stepping down under pressure from Trump, whos publicly said he wants a change in party leadership. But when reached for comment last week, an RNC spokesperson said: Nothing has changed. This will be decided after South Carolina.
Trump campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung called out Haleys comments in a statement to NBC News.
Nikki Braindead Birdbrain Haley reeks of desperation as its clear she knows she has no shot, and is now auditioning for a cable news contract when her 15 minutes are over, Cheung said. But not before she can squeeze every last dollar out of her Democrat benefactors.
Some historically Democratic donors have been giving money to Haleys campaign in an effort to keep Trump out of the White House. However, Trump has maintained his strong lead over Haley, polling nearly 76% to her 17%. He even has a commanding lead over her in her home state of South Carolina, which will hold its GOP primary on Feb. 24.
Haley has expressed frustration with Republican leadership, accusing the party of having a clear bias toward Trump. Last week she called the Nevada caucus a scam that the Republicans rigged for Trump, after the party refused to participate in the state-sanctioned primary and instead held a separate caucus, which was the only contest that awarded delegates. Haley chose to participate in the states primary while Trump stuck to the caucus, which required a $55,000 entrance fee.

Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson has elaborated on his decision to go against a measure to allow the House of Representatives to vote for further aid to Ukraine, saying that Russia's leader Vladimir Putin "will not lose the war."
On Monday night, a bipartisan coalition of senators approved motions to push forward a package of further aid to countries including Ukraine and Israel. Senators voted in a majority to end dilatory debate on the $95 billion package, setting up a final vote for early Tuesday morning to send it to the House. Johnson, a Republican, was among a large group of GOP senators who voted against it.
Speaking on conservative news network Real America's Voice, Johnson said that, while Putin was "a war criminal", some of the things the Russian president said in his interview with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, that aired last week, were right.
"Our policy should be focused on how do we bring Vladimir Putin to the table," Johnson said.
"We're cutting off our nose to spite our face with some of these sanctions," he added, saying that it was making American dollars less important as Russia starts to trade in other currencies.
Johnson said: "A lot of the points that Vladimir Putin made are accurate. They're obvious, and so many of our people here in Washington D.C. are just ignoring that, making people believe like Ukraine can win. Putin won't lose. Putin will not lose. He's not going to lose."
Johnson added that people needed to accept this reality to deal with the war and bring it to a close.
Newsweek contacted representatives for Johnson by email for comment.
The package politicians are deliberating would allocate $60 billion in aid to Ukraine's military operation, $14 billion to Israel and US military operations in the region and more than $8 billion to US partners in the Indo-Pacific region, including Taiwan. It also allocates nearly $10 billion for humanitarian efforts in Ukraine, Israel and Gaza.
Republicans have long argued that any additional aid to Ukraine should be tied to additional border security funding, amid soaring encounters on the southern border.

In a statement, Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson criticized the deal, and said it lacked border security provisions. "House Republicans were crystal clear from the very beginning of discussions that any so-called national security supplemental legislation must recognize that national security begins at our own border," he said.
He added: "America deserves better than the Senate's status quo."
On Monday, Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer, a New York Democrat, said the weekend votes demonstrated "beyond doubt that there's strong support" for advancing the foreign aid package.
Schumer said: "These are the enormously high stakes of the supplemental package: our security, our values, our democracy. It is a down payment for the survival of western democracy and the survival of American values."
He added: "The entire world is going to remember what the Senate does in the next few days. Nothingnothingwould make Putin happier right now than to see Congress waver in its support for Ukraine; nothing would help him more on the battlefield."
During his interview with Carlson, which represented the first time the Russian leader was interviewed by Western media since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Putin suggested that Russia was open to peace talks with Ukraine, but claimed that the United States was getting in the way.