S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley said Wednesday that she endorsed U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., for president because he was best suited to restore Republican principles of limited government and cutting debt.
"I want a president who understands they have to go back to Washington, D.C., and bring a conscious back to our Republicans," Haley, a Lexington Republican, told a crowd of hundreds gathered outside a Chapin warehouse.
Haley said she made the decision as a mother who wants safer, more prosperous nation for her children and as the wife of a combat veteran who want more support for the military.
The governor did not say why she didn't choose others candidates for Saturday's GOP primary.
"We have good people running for president, and I thank them today for their sacrifice and their willingness to serve and to honor this great country and make her better," she said. "But my job was to find the person I thought who could do it the best.
"I wanted someone with fight. I wanted somebody with passion. I wanted somebody who has the conviction to do the right thing," she said. "But I wanted somebody humble enough (who) remembers that you work for all the people."
Haley, the state’s most popular GOP politician in polls and a rising national GOP star, was South Carolina’s most coveted Republican endorsement of the 2016 presidential race.
"She embodies for me everything that I want the Republican party and conservative movement to be about," Rubio told the crowd.
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Rubio/Haley 2016?
"I want a president who understands they have to go back to Washington, D.C., and bring a conscious back to our Republicans," Haley, a Lexington Republican, told a crowd of hundreds gathered outside a Chapin warehouse.
Haley said she made the decision as a mother who wants safer, more prosperous nation for her children and as the wife of a combat veteran who want more support for the military.
The governor did not say why she didn't choose others candidates for Saturday's GOP primary.
"We have good people running for president, and I thank them today for their sacrifice and their willingness to serve and to honor this great country and make her better," she said. "But my job was to find the person I thought who could do it the best.
"I wanted someone with fight. I wanted somebody with passion. I wanted somebody who has the conviction to do the right thing," she said. "But I wanted somebody humble enough (who) remembers that you work for all the people."
Haley, the state’s most popular GOP politician in polls and a rising national GOP star, was South Carolina’s most coveted Republican endorsement of the 2016 presidential race.
"She embodies for me everything that I want the Republican party and conservative movement to be about," Rubio told the crowd.
Read more here: http://www.thestate.com/news/politi...s/the-buzz/article60856927.html#storylink=cpy
Rubio/Haley 2016?
