Nikki Haley Slams the Door Shut on a No Labels Bid

This morning, in a chat with reporters at the Fairmont Hotel in Washington, Nikki Haley gave her most emphatic rejection of the option of running as the presidential candidate of the organization No Labels.

“If I were to do No Labels, that would require a Democratic vice president. I can’t do what I want to do as president with a Democratic vice president,” Haley said. “I want to shrink the size of government and get it efficient again. I want to make sure that we get our kids reading again by putting more of those federal funds pushing it down to the state level — from education to health care to welfare and mental health, I want to take all of that out of D.C. and send it to the states. I can’t do that with a Democratic vice president. I want to make sure we do peace through strength, I don’t know if our foreign policies would agree.”

Haley later elaborated, “I’ve always believed that if you’re going to do something, do it right, or don’t do it. And I don’t think I could do it right if — if I ran for No Labels, that would mean it’s about me.”