- Former Fox News host says Nikki Haley is a ‘creature of the oligarchs.’
- Claims he would abandon Trump in 2024 if she runs as his vice president
- Haley has not yet ruled out running on the ticket with Trump
By KATELYN CARALLE, U.S. POLITICAL REPORTER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 15:49 EST, 19 December 2023 | UPDATED: 16:48 EST, 19 December 2023.
Tucker Carlson says there is an instance where he would not vote for Donald Trump in 2024: if the ex-president chooses Nikki Haley as his running mate.
The former Fox News host and conservative pundit said he would actively oppose Trump’s reelection to office if he were running with his current presidential primary rival and called Haley a ‘creature of the oligarchs.’
Haley, who served as Trump’s ambassador to the United Nations, has seen some recent poll boost in early primary states and has not ruled out running on the ticket with her former boss.
Of a potential for a Trump-Haley ticket, Carlson said: ‘I would not only not vote for that ticket, I would advocate against it as strongly as I could.’
‘That’s just poison,’ Carlson added during an interview with conservative media personality Tim Pool.
He said that while Haley is ‘not left’ but is ‘neoliberal in the darkest, most … nihilistic way.’
Carlson also claims that the former South Carolina governor ‘has no real popular support,’ despite her rising poll numbers, one of which showed Haley just 15 percent behind Trump in New Hampshire.
If Haley joined Trump’s campaign, Carlson claimed it ‘would be reason to oppose the ticket.’
While Haley hasn’t ruled out the prospects of VP, she did say in August: ‘I think everybody that says, ‘She’s doing this to be vice president,’ needs to understand I don’t run for second.’
During Carlson’s discussion with Pool on the sidelines of AmFest in Phoenix, Arizona this week, he was highly critical of the team behind Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ candidacy and those who defend him online.
He claimed they are’ the nastiest, the stupidest and the most zero sum people I ever seen in my life.’ 
Nikki Haley was Trump’s ambassador to the United Nations and has not yet ruled out running as his vice president on the 2024 ticket – even though she is still running her own campaign
Notably, DeSantis has already ruled out running on the Republican ticket with Trump in 2024.
He consistently polls second place in national polls, but has dropped in state-wide surveys to third.
Carlson held a wide-ranging sit-down interview with Trump that went live just five minutes before the first Republican presidential primary debate in August as counter programming to the event that the ex-president refused to attend.
Trump has had a good relationship with Carlson, who was ousted from Fox this year despite being the most watched program on the right-leaning network.
It seems that relationship will sour if Trump embraces Haley.