Nikki Haley's Ominous Prediction About Second Donald Trump Term

Republican 2024 presidential candidate Nikki Haley warned on Sunday that a second Donald Trump term would bring "chaos."

Since announcing her bid for the presidency, Haley, the former governor of South Carolina, is charging forward in several polls and is running neck-and-neck with rival Florida Governor Ron DeSantis for second place. In addition, some of the most recent polls also suggest that Haley might be in the strongest position to defeat President Joe Biden. A recent Wall Street Journal poll shows Haley leading Biden by 17 points. The Republican was backed by 51 percent of respondents while the president was supported by 34 percent in a head-to-head matchup. The poll included 1,500 registered voters and has margin of error of plus or minus 2.5 percentage points.

However, Trump remains the frontrunner to become the Republican candidate despite facing numerous indictments, all of which he maintains his innocence in. As of Sunday, the latest analysis by polling aggregate website FiveThirtyEight had Trump in the lead with the support of 62.4 percent of likely Republican voters, followed by DeSantis with 12.3 percent, and Haley with 10.9 percent.

In an interview with ABC News This Week with co-anchor Jonathan Karl on Sunday, Haley spoke about the former president where she warned that "there is a lot at stake for our country," adding that Americans don't want another Biden-Trump rematch.

"I agree with a lot of Trump's policies. I think he was the right president at the right time. But looking at the situation now, our country is in disarray. The world is on fire and chaos follows him. We can't have a country in chaos for four more years or we won't survive it," Haley, who also served as ambassador to the United Nations in the Trump administration, said.

Karl then asked Haley, "Is it chaos that follows him or does he create the chaos?"

"Rightly or wrongly, you call it whatever you want to call it, but when you feel it, it's chaos...Americans are tired, they want the government to work for them again and they want to win," Haley added.

Appearing alongside New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu, a Republican and top Trump critic who endorsed her earlier this week, Haley said on Sunday that there were several areas where she and the former president disagree.

"There are things I agree with the president on. I had a good working relationship with him. There are things I don't agree. I don't agree with the fact that, yes, we had a good economy while he was there, but he put us $8 trillion in debt that our kids are never going to forgive us for," Haley said.

Newsweek has reached out to Haley and Trump via email for comment.

Haley's comments come after a warning from Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Georgia Republican and a vocal Trump ally, that "MAGA (Make America Great Again) would revolt" if Haley were to be included in a future Trump administration, just hours after the former president's daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, said she couldn't rule out the ex-South Carolina governor serving as his vice president.

Meanwhile, Haley's recent polling surge and prominent performance in recent GOP primary presidential debates have seen her adopted as the anti-Trump candidate by some Republican donors.

Previously speaking to Newsweek, Republican strategist Matt Klink said Haley could emerge as Trump's main challenger for the 2024 GOP nomination if she performs well in the early-voting states of Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina.

"If she finished second in each, she can make the case that other GOP presidential aspirants should drop out early so she can go head-to-head with Donald Trump," he said.