Nikki Haley on Tim Scott Endorsing Trump: ‘Everybody Has a Decision to Make ... He’ll Have to Live with His’

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CAVUTO: “You know, last night, I don’t know if it was a birthday bummer ahead of time, but Tim Scott, as you know, endorsed Donald Trump, were you surprised or disappointed?”

Haley: “Blood sport and I have dealt with the old guard and the fellas for a long time.”

CAVUTO: “You appointed him senator.”

Haley: “I did, and it was the right thing. “

CAVUTO: “Did you feel like, hey—“

Haley: “Has a decision to make and they have to live with their decision. He’ll have to live with his. What I know, we’re going to continue to go forward. Trump focused a lot of time getting as many Washington insiders elected officials, endorsements as he can. If you notice, I haven’t tried to do any of that for the simple reason of, in South Carolina, you won’t see a lot of legislative endorsements for me because I forced them to have to show their votes on the record, forced them to have ethics reform and called out Republicans and Democrats for spending and vetoed half a billion of their spending. In Congress I said we need to have term limits, mental competency tests. If they can’t get a budget on time they’re not going to get paid. I have never gone and tried to get as many elected officials endorsements as I can I’m not who I’m fighting for.”

CAVUTO: “Is there something else going on, or something personal, an animus there. We picked up on the campaign?”

HAELY: “No, you’ll have to ask him. I was never anything, but good to him. What you do, you make the best decisions. I tried to make the best decisions as governor and as ambassador. He made this decision, that’s his to live with. Mine is to focus on making sure we’re touching as many–”

CAVUTO: “— ahead of time and tell you he was going to do this?”