Trump/Nikki 2024?: DeSantis ad accuses Haley of running for VP slot

Florida GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis on Tuesday unveiled a campaign ad highlighting the apparent lack of animosity between former President Donald Trump and former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, suggested the pair could wind up on the same general election ticket.

"There’s a reason Nikki Haley has spent millions to smear Ron DeSantis. There’s a reason Haley refuses to criticize Donald Trump. There’s a reason Haley asked Trump's permission to run," the DeSantis War Room posted. The ad itself largely features media clips of pundits speculating on the prospect of Haley seeking Trump's vice presidential nod.

There’s a reason Nikki Haley has spent millions to smear Ron DeSantis.

There’s a reason Haley refuses to criticize Donald Trump.

There’s a reason Haley asked Trump's permission to run.

WATCH: pic.twitter.com/iQuVEjoakq

— DeSantis War Room 🐊 (@DeSantisWarRoom) December 19, 2023

Haley has largely run on a traditional Republican platform, with an interventionist foreign policy as her signature issue. Her views on aiding Ukraine and Israel amid those conflicts have attracted accusations of being a "neocon" or "neoconservative," a pejorative term for the Bush-era Republican philosophy of American global intervention.

Trump stalwarts, such as Georgia GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, have vocally warned Trump against tapping Haley to serve in another administration, insisting such a play would prompt extreme conservative rebuke.

"MAGA would revolt if Nikki Haley were to even be given an internship in Trump’s next administration," Greene said this month. "She represents the neocon establishment America last wing of the Republican Party that we are absolutely done with. Also, she lied and said she would not run against Trump."

Ben Whedon is an editor and reporter for Just the News. Follow him on X, formerly Twitter.