Judge Judy is endorsing Nikki Haley for president.
And nobody is sure how much they should care.
The Haley campaign touted the TV judge’s backing in a statement released Tuesday. In it, Judy Sheindlin, who’s been adjudicating small-claims cases in her simulated court room for decades, said she thinks Haley is the leader America needs.
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“I’m proud to endorse Nikki Haley because she is whip smart, has executive credentials and was a superb governor,” said the 81-year-old television personality. “I truly think she can restore America and believe she is the future of this great nation.”
The reaction to Judge Judy’s endorsement was…tepid.
Haley called Judge Judy a “no-nonsense lady” who has “earned the respect of millions of Americans from her courtroom by being thoughtful, fair, and honest.” For 25 years, Sheindlin hosted Judge Judy, which was syndicated across the country.
Though her network show ended in 2021, Sheindlin currently hosts Judy Justice on Amazon Freevee. She says her passion for settling small-claims cases in hyperbolic fashion has never waned.
“I was as enthusiastic and rigorous in the last case that I taped as I was at the beginning,” she said before the last episode of Judge Judy.
Overall, Sheindlin settled 12,750 cases on her acclaimed show.
Occasionally foraying into politics, the New York native endorsed Michael Bloomberg for president in 2020. She said the billionaire and former NYC mayor is “courageous” and “beholden to no one.”
Old syndicated daytime TV hosts don’t have the best recent political track records. Dr. Oz campaigned for an open Pennsylvania senate seat in 2022, only to reveal himself as an out-of-touch carpetbagger who thought the average voter was worried about crudités.
While Sheindlin isn’t running for office herself, the timing of her Haley endorsement raises questions. The ex-South Carolina governor’s campaign is reaching peak cringe days before the Iowa Caucus. Some of her recent gaffs include saying the Civil War was fought over “freedom” (not slavery) and advocating for school-aged children to pass through metal detectors every morning.
In defense of her Civil War stance, Haley said she had Black friends growing up…
Seriously!
Nikki Haley: "We have to secure our schools the same way we secure our airports and courthouses" pic.twitter.com/6DCrQwbKFH
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) January 5, 2024
There’s been some talk about Haley surging in New Hampshire, now trailing Donald Trump by single digits (a Boston Globe survey, however, show her trailing Trump by 19).
Despite asserting herself as the clear second place, Haley is still well behind the quadruple-indicted, twice-impeached, one-term ex-president in national polling.
We’re almost certain Judge Judy doesn’t hold that kind of sway.
Next case!
abfab
A billionaire in Naples, Florida. Big surprise. And she has the nerve to call her TV guests idiots. Another entertainment mogul who is only in it for the money………and more money……….and more money.
Baron Wiseman
I’m not voting for Nikki Haley, but it would be a nice endorsement to have. She is well-respected and has huge audience. Good for Nikki.
abfab
You are an asshole and no one cares who you vote for.
BLAKENOW
Baron Wiseman I mean Baron idiot, nobody wants your gay, messy Republican ass. To quote the orange turd “very sad”.
Love321
Baron Wiseman said, “I’m not voting for Nikki Haley, but it would be a nice endorsement to have. She is well-respected and has huge audience” Baron, you do know that the last presidential candidate Judy endorsed was Michael Bloomberg in 2020….look how that turned out….
still_onthemark
@Baron Wasteland: Why so coy? Tell us, are you voting for the guy who says MERRY CHRISTMAS, ROT IN HELL!, or are you voting for the guy with high heels?
Bosch
Hahahaha oh dumfuk. You need to be more careful with your Slavic grammar…
LumpyPillows
If she can stop Trump and his assault on decency and good government, she would have my thanks, if not my vote.
abfab
If she would serve him a delicious beef curry marinated in HEMLOCK she would get my vote.
dbmcvey
Baron will vote for Trump, who will be the GOP nominee because the entire party is currently just a cult of personality for the MAGoon.
Chrisk
Oh yes. The Trump lite candidate is going to Restore America. Lol
jackmister
I used to like Judge Judy.
Ronbo
I used to love the warm, loving people of Israel. Then the Zionists took control. Makes me wonder if we are susceptible.
cuteguy
Judge Judy needs to retire bc she’s clearly lost it
abfab
Firing Bert was the last straw!
Mack
abfab she hired him on another show she produces-Tribunal Justice also on Freevee.
abfab
Oh jolly good! Burt is a menche.
Ronbo
abfab is a fan of Judge Judy… telling. Walk thru the nursing home and her personal attacks echo down the halls. It speaks so much to the dignity or lack thereof.
Metro135
Just what America needs – a “leader” who doesn’t know the cause behind the Civil War. But at least she has black friends!
abfab
Or a leader like the POS who could not identify 50 states. And forget about the territories….pure dumb. What are territories? Where is Puerto RIco? Here are a few rolls of paper towels.
morgan
Judge Judy is a scabrous hag who would vote for Netanyahu if it would benefit her. Why would any GLBTQ person ever watch her or say a good word about her. She deserves Nikki Haley; they deserve each other.
abfab
I would say that Nikky is too dumb and poor for Judy to hob-nob with.
LegionKeign
Thank You!
I never understood her appeal.
She’s an overrated loudmouth with too high of an opinion of herself.
Ronbo
morgan is on target and abfab is revealing the depths of his/her dreams of hob-nobbing. LegionKeigh, speaks my language.
Fahd
Judge Judy endorsing amoral careerist Haley might minimally influence the Republican primaries, but I doubt it. Otherwise, her endorsement of Haley probably will have no effect (see Bloomberg 2020).
Is there any overlap of Judy fans and Queerty readers? I guess this post is part of Queerty’s rightwing watch.
abfab
I hope she has bodyguards and screens her phone calls…..MAGA world is now planning death threats. That’s what they do.
Ronbo
Bloomberg ran as a Democrat – trying to repeat the Clinton de-democratization of the party.
RIGay
Well! Now we know who will be on Haley’s short list for SCOTUS nominees!
RoyM
Judy is just another loud mouthed, obnoxious, hate and greed driven right wing extremist pretty much just like Donald Trump so I guess the only thing shocking about this is that she endorsed Haley, not Trump.
still_onthemark
Like almost all native New Yorkers she’s disliked the real estate con man Trump, probably since before you were born, and she endorsed a Democrat in 2020, so as usual you don’t know what you’re talking about.
Brian
She’s one of the richest people ever to appear on television. She’s also about to die. I’m sure her politics are completely influenced by tax issues. She wants leadership who will allow her and her family to retain extreme wealth. She couldn’t care less about things like renewable energy or climate change, for example, because that’s too forward-looking and she’ll already be dead.
Jim
Judy was the queen of “Jerk TV”.
Who would listen to her?
Man About Town
Yes, her stupid comments about the Civil War certainly come from a “whip smart” mind.
abfab
She’s a bimbo terrified of being cancelled by the good (racist) low-land people of South Carolina.
Ronbo
And abfab is Judge Judy’s biggest fan. Blowhards and self-important creeps flock together.
Alfred E. Neuman
I’m more interested in who Bird Brained Nikki would propose for the Secretary of Education position if she makes the ticket. Have to wonder if she’d pick a fellow former classmate from Orangeburg Preparatory School. If they’d had school vouchers back in the day, her parents could have subsidized her indoctrination, er I mean education with tax payer dollars. On a side note, think she enjoyed the bird cage left outside the door of her hotel room. Can you say stalker much?
Of course, if MAGAtron Man gets the ticket and makes it to the finish line DOE is toast when he and Sloppy Steve start burning down the house.
randeman
Not just referring to her, but does anyone really care which celebrity is endorsing which politician? Unless it adds massive (which I don’t imagine in this or most cases) money to their campaign, so what?
abfab
Some/many people care. But have you seen the list of REPUBLICAN ”stars” who endorse and suck up to the right wing in this country? LAMEOLLA!
Fleetwood Mac and others did well for us….don’t stop thinking about tomorrow. But how can any of us forget Al and Tiipper and the super gross french kiss? Oy!
dbmcvey
This endorsement will go the same way her others did.
Ronbo
Hopefully. But our dear deep thinker, abfab, is now back on the political fence. The nursing homes echo with the sounds of JJ’s arrogance.
tab
JJ is worth a half billion dollars, so who she endorsers does not aline wirh the average American
dbmcvey
Most of her fans probably don’t even know she endorsed anyone.
abfab
She did great sit-down interviews with good journalists.
humble charlie
love of money means you can never get enough.
abfab
Best parts of JJ—–she would go back stage in to the quiet room and make phone calls to verify the truth of the matter with some loser on the other end of the line.
Question…..when the tel ###s and the addresses were bleeped out to us, what about the white trash sitting in the audience? Deep issues here.
I thought she was fabulousssssssssssssssssssss. That doylee around her neck was special.
humble charlie
this makes me question every one of her court judgments. further proof that once you make an exorbitant amount of money, you become an autocratic creep who only sees the multi-millionaire/billionaire side of a problem. judge jerky is disgustiing. just as disgusting as nikki hooey. and just as disgusting as the malodorous stinky don and the blood-stained genocide joe.
abfab
You lost me at genocide joe
Ronbo
Abfab,
What else does one call the person supporting: theft of land, massacre of innocents, bombing of homes, bulldozing of buildings/religious sites and denial of humanity? It’s technically genocide.
MinnesotaNotNice
What a dumb Jew bitch!
Ronbo
Please don’t pin this on the Jews. Unlike Judy they were once a warm loving people – before the Zionists took over.