Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) declined to endorse Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley, citing concerns about her ties to establishment money and her appearance on “Saturday Night Live.”
Roy initially avoided directly endorsing Haley or former President Donald Trump, stating that he would support the Republican nominee.
He expressed skepticism about Haley’s representation of conservative values and criticized her for accepting establishment funding used to target Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.
Rep. Chip Roy said Trump failed on immigration. Asked why he thinks it will be different if he's reelected, Roy says, “First of all, it’s all relative. I mean, Trump was working hard to move the numbers down…We just didn't get the permanent legislative fixes that I wanted.” pic.twitter.com/vxUHt3EXlz
— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) February 6, 2024
“We’ll let this play out. But I don’t think that Governor Haley, with all due respect, is representing the conservatives that I represent when she’s going on ‘SNL’ and she’s out, you know, kind of playing the establishment game and taking money from a bunch of establishment dollars,” Roy said.
“Wait, what?” CNN’s Kaitlan Collins said. “You’re not gonna endorse her because she went on ‘Saturday Night Live?’”
“No. No, because she was saddling up with establishment money out of New York that she was using to go target Ron DeSantis to the tune of $26 million in Iowa. So she made her bed. Let’s go see if she can make it,” Roy said.
“I see dead people.” That’s exactly what voters will think if this race is between Trump and Biden in the fall.
Had a blast tonight on SNL! Know it was past Donald’s bedtime so looking forward to the stream of unhinged tweets in the a.m. pic.twitter.com/W43LlPOoi2
— Nikki Haley (@NikkiHaley) February 4, 2024
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