ROCK HILL, S.C. — Supporters of former President Donald Trump on Friday ridiculed the possibility of former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley becoming Trump's running mate in 2024 in an interview with the Daily Caller News Foundation.

President Trump has named several potential running mates as his running mate without explicitly ruling out Haley, but the former governor insists she has no ambitions to be No. 2. are doing. Rock Hill has floated the idea of ​​considering a former governor for the post and told DCNF various reasons for opposing such a decision.

“I think she's a RINO. I think she's a Trojan horse. She's backed by the Democratic Party,” Kristen Hanrath of Lake Wylie told DCNF. “I don't trust her girlfriend as much as I can throw her girlfriend.” (Related: Trailing by double digits, Nikki Haley makes final plea for votes in home state)

Hanrus, 52, owns an interior painting business and voted for Trump in 2016 and 2020. Ms. Hanrus told the DCNF that she did not believe Mr. Haley was “influenced” at the time. governor From 2011 to 2017.

Driver Christina DiFiore, 48, of Rock Hill, thinks Haley is too left-leaning to be President Trump's running mate.

“She talked so much about being on the other side, on the far left, that she exposed who she really was and was discredited and I think she did that to herself,” DiFiore told DCNF. ” he said. “If something were to happen to him, I don't want her to rule our country.”

Mr. DiFiore will be replaced by Republican Sens. Ted Cruz (Texas), Rand Paul (Ky.), Tim Scott (South Carolina), and Republican Rep. Jim Jordan (Ohio). ) was proposed as a candidate. The driver described himself as a “very conservative” independent voter and told DCNF that he supported Trump in both administrations.

Haley attracted many moderates and leftists in the presidential race, and won a majority of self-proclaimed Democrats in the New Hampshire primary. President Trump launched a series of attacks on Haley over her appeal to the Democratic base during his speech, and on Saturday he urged South Carolinians to come out for him.

Democrats are allowed to do that. Vote in Saturday's primary because the state does not register voters by party affiliation. The Democratic primary election was held in the state on February 3, and President Joe Biden won an overwhelming victory.

Jared Metz, 23, of Matthews, North Carolina, accused Haley of wanting to raise the retirement age for young people.

“She's the Mitt Romney of 2024. A Democrat in disguise,” Metz said. “hoping [Trump] I wouldn't turn around and make her vice president because that would be terrible. ”

Metz said he preferred former presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy as Trump's running mate, arguing that the 38-year-old may be more sympathetic to his generation. The North Carolina native, who supported the former president in 2020, said he is most concerned about housing affordability, interest rates and inflation.

LoMonte Hamer, 35, a Tennessee native who came to support Mr. Trump on Friday, said there was “no chance” the former president would want Ms. Haley for the post.

“There's a big difference between being a servant of the people and serving yourself,” Hamer told DCNF. “Unfortunately, I think we've seen too many candidates stay in power for too long and of course power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. And we saw it in her time as governor of South Carolina, when she was at Boeing, and she leaves the office and then gets on board. In my opinion, it's certainly fraudulent. may not exist. But as a voter, no matter where you come from, it looks and stinks like corruption to me.”

As a South Carolina lawmaker, Haley supported policies that gave Boeing more than $1 billion in taxpayer-funded benefits. After leaving his post as ambassador to the United Nations during the Trump administration, Haley served on Boeing's board of directors for about a year, where he earned thousands of dollars.

Hamer, a Republican roofing salesman, also claimed he was opposed to the former governor becoming Trump's running mate because “she's a hawk.”

Haley's campaign responded to voter sentiment by touting her accomplishments as governor and, in turn, attacking the former president.

“South Carolinians need to know that Nikki Haley cut taxes, passed one of the toughest illegal immigration laws in the country, introduced voter ID, and created tens of thousands of jobs in every county in the state. “I know,” said Anne-Marie Graham Burns, a spokeswoman for the paper. Haley's campaign told DCNF in a statement. “Mr. Trump was donating to Kamala Harris while she was making good on conservative promises. He's not conservative enough to be her vice president.”

Mark Lyons, a former software business executive who lives across the state line in North Carolina, disagrees with his fellow Trump supporters and told the DCNF, “I'd like to see them on the ticket together.”

The Real Clear Politics average South Carolina's Republican primary, based on polls conducted between February 13 and February 18, showed Haley trailing Trump by 25 points in her home state. The former governor has the support of nearly all of South Carolina's Republican leaders, including Gov. Henry McMaster and all but one member of the state's congressional delegation.

Haley finished third in Iowa, second in New Hampshire, and lost the Nevada primary, where she did not compete for delegates, to “None of These Candidates.”

The Trump campaign did not immediately respond to DCNF's request for comment.

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