MILWAUKEE, WI – Former President Trump's final rival in the race for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination will speak at this week's Republican convention, in what appears to be a move toward party unity following the failed assassination attempt on Trump.
Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, who served as U.N. ambassador in the Trump administration, will now speak at the convention on Tuesday, a person familiar with the decision confirmed to Fox News on Sunday.
Until last week, Haley had not planned to attend the convention, which begins Monday in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
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The Fiserv Forum remains illuminated at night ahead of the 2024 Republican National Convention on July 12, 2024 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. (PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images)
“She wasn't invited and that's fine with her,” Haley aide Chaney Denton said last week. “Trump deserves the convention he wants. She's made it clear she's voting for him and wishes him well.”
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But in the wake of Saturday's shooting at a Trump rally in western Pennsylvania, where the former president was visibly bloodied after a bullet grazed his ear and where one spectator was killed and two were seriously injured, the Republican Party has rallied around its standard-bearer.
Former President Donald Trump is seen with blood on his face surrounded by Secret Service agents as he is led off the stage at a campaign event in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13, 2024. Rebecca Droke/AFP via Getty Images (Rebecca Droke/AFP via Getty Images)
Haley launched her Presidential campaign In February of last year, she became the first major candidate to challenge Trump, who had announced his candidacy three months earlier. She was Trump's final challenger, battling the former president in a contentious two-candidate showdown from the New Hampshire primary in late January through Super Tuesday in early March.
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Haley announced she was suspending her White House campaign on March 6, the day after Trump swept 14 of the 15 Republican nominating contests on Super Tuesday.
Republican presidential candidate and former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley speaks as she announces she is suspending her campaign, in Charleston, South Carolina, March 6, 2024. (Reuters/Brian Snyder)
By dropping out of the race, Haley made clear that she intended to keep speaking out. And Haley continued to pull in as many as 20% of the GOP vote. presidential primaries in the months following his abandonment.
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In late May, in her first public comments since announcing the end of her 2024 campaign, Haley said she would vote for Trump.
Haley won a total of 97 delegates during the Republican presidential primaries. And last week, Haley released all of her delegates and urged them to support Trump.
Fox News' Sandra Smith contributed to this report
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