Nikki Haley Tells Fox & Friends Trump and Vance ‘Need to Change the Way They Talk About Women’

Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley offered advice for the Republican ticket on Fox & Friends Monday morning, telling host Brian Kilmeade that former President Donald Trump and Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) “need to change the way they talk about women.”

Kilmeade brought up former Rep. Liz Cheney’s (R-WY) endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris , and played a video of Cheney being asked about Haley’s support for Trump despite previously calling him “unhinged” and “unqualified.”

“I can’t understand her position on this in any kind of a principled way,” said Cheney in the clip. “I think that, the things that she said, that she made clear, when she was running in the primary, those things are true. Casting a vote for Donald Trump or writing someone in means that you’ve made the decision, in too many instances that so many elected Republicans have made, which is to abandon the Constitution.”

Kilmeade asked Haley for her reaction to Cheney’s comments, and Haley retorted that she “respect[ed] her decision,” but the former congresswoman “can’t say my decision is not principled,” arguing that November was a choice to “vote based on style or we can vote on substance.”

“If you don’t like him, say you don’t like him,” Haley continued, “but you can’t say his policies are worse than Kamala Harris, that’s not a fact.”

Kilmeade asked if Haley would “appear on stage” with Trump at his campaign rallies, noting the “ sizable portion ” of primary voters who supported her but not Trump.

“I have made it clear to him, a couple of things — one, that he needs to go out and ask for the vote of conservative and moderate Republicans, suburban women, independents, conservative Democrats — this is going to be a tight election,” replied Haley. “He needs to go say, ‘I need your vote.'”

“And the second thing is, I’m on standby. I’m happy to be helpful,” she added. “I don’t want to see Kamala Harris win. He’s the candidate — he can decide whether he needs my support or not.”

“But you would do it?” asked Kilmeade.

“Absolutely,” said Haley.

“Why do you think Kamala Harris has a 14-point lead in the gender gap, among women?” he asked.

“I think it’d because Donald Trump and JD Vance need to change the way they speak about women,” said Haley. “You don’t need to call Kamala dumb. She didn’t get this far just by accident. She’s here, that’s what it is, she’s a prosecutor. You don’t need to go and talk about intelligence or looks or anything else. Just focus on the policies. When you call even a Democrat woman dumb, Republican women get their backs up too. The bottom line is, we win on policies, stick to the policies and leave other stuff — that’s how he can win.”

Haley made similar comments to Face the Nation anchor Margaret Brennan over the weekend, characterizing Vance’s attacks on “childless cat ladies” as “ not helpful .” The former US ambassador to the United Nations has been urging Trump to “ quit whining ” and focus on issues for weeks.

Meanwhile, neither of the men on the GOP ticket seem interested in following Haley’s advice.

The ex-president has been giving incomprehensible word salad answers when asked direct policy questions, threatening to prosecute those he accuses of stealing the election from him, spreading debunked claims about migrants to support his calls to deport millions of people, and joking about the violent assault on Paul Pelosi . He’s also facing a total so far of $83.3 million in judgments after a jury found him civilly liable for sexually abusing E. Jean Carroll and then defaming her — and he may still face additional lawsuits as he keeps repeating the same attacks on Carroll.

As for Vance, the “childless cat ladies” kerfuffle has been followed by a series of unearthed clips in which the Ohio senator disparaged his political opponents by attacking them for not having children (including some who actually do ), agreed with a podcast host who stated that “the whole purpose of the postmenopausal female” was to help care for children, and answered a question about how to lower the cost of daycare by suggesting other family members should provide free care (“Maybe grandma or grandpa wants to help out a little bit more, or maybe there’s an aunt or uncle who wants to help out a little bit more”).

Watch the clip above via Fox News .