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(NewsNation) — On Tuesday night, the Republican National Convention heard from a last-minute speaker: Nikki Haley.
The erstwhile United Nations ambassador was added to the speaking docket Sunday. A week earlier the convention, she released her delegates and encouraged them to ballot for Trump.
"I'll commencement by making 1 happening clear: Donald Trump has my beardown support, period," Haley said arsenic the assemblage stood up and applauded.
Haley repeatedly claimed during her ain 2024 run that a ballot for Biden was truly a ballot for Harris, and she reiterated that content Tuesday.
“After seeing the debate, everyone knows it’s true,” she said, claiming the state would beryllium worse disconnected if Harris were president for “a azygous day.”
She went connected to preach enactment unity and said that "you don't person to hold with Trump" wholly to ballot for him.
“We should admit that determination are immoderate Americans who don’t hold with Donald Trump 100% of the time,” Haley said. “Take it from me. I haven’t ever agreed with President Trump. But we hold much often than we disagree.”
Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., praised speeches from Haley and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, arguing that they amusement the GOP “is wholly unified.”
“I don’t deliberation we’ve been this mode astir apt successful a mates decades, to beryllium honorable with you. We’re agreed down President Trump,” Donalds said. “In campaigns, we person our differences, it happens. We vie ... but astatine the extremity of the day, we got to beryllium agreed and we are tonight, and we’re gonna beryllium that mode going into November.”
"The Hill" contributed to this report.
