Haley warns Trump to downplay ‘bromance’ and ‘masculinity’ if he wants women’s votes

Former Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley on Tuesday called on former President Donald Trump to abandon his rhetoric about “bromance and masculinity” in the final week of the presidential election as he risks alienating female voters.

Haley, who battled Trump for the GOP nomination earlier this year, previously called on the former president to keep his criticism of Vice President Kamala Harris to her politics rather than her personal life. Hayley supported Trump this summer after she suspended her own presidential campaign.

The former South Carolina governor said now is not the time to be “overly masculine in this bromance” and criticized the former president for allowing a comedian to insult Puerto Ricans at a rally on Sunday.

“This is not the time to criticize Puerto Rico or Latinos,” Haley. This was reported on Fox News. “Now is not the time for them to become too masculine in this bromance they have started. Fifty-three percent of voters are women. Women will vote. They care about how they are spoken to and they care about problems.”

Haley said there was “no reason” to allow the comedian to perform at a rally so close to the election and said the timing was “harmful” for the Trump campaign. The comment came after comedian Tony Hinchcliffe was insulted. joked that Puerto Rico is a “floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean.”

“I mean, Puerto Ricans, it’s personal for them. They take it personally,” Haley said. “So they were right to condemn the comedian, they need to go and tell Puerto Ricans how much they appreciate them. They need to tell Latinos this.

“But they also need to look at how they talk about women,” she reiterated. “I mean this bromance and this masculinity. I mean it borders on being harsh to the point where it will make women feel uncomfortable.”

Warning comes as polls show Harris ahead of Trump among women voterswhile Trump leads among men, according to Business Insider. Haley, who frequently targeted women while running for the Republican nomination, was expected to join Trump on the campaign trail but has not yet appeared with him.

“They are very aware that we are in a holding pattern,” Haley said of the Trump campaign. “They know we will be there to help. I helped with fundraising letters and text messages and things like that, and we did it. It’s their campaign’s decision as to what he needs, and in these last final days, I’m not worried about that at all.”

Misty Severy is the evening news reporter for Just The News. You can follow her on X for more coverage.