Nikki Haley

Former U.N. Ambassador Haley announced her presidential bid on Tuesday, challenging for President Donald Trump for the GOP nomination.

And she's posturing herself as a new voice unafraid to fight back: "You should know this about me -- I don't put up with bullies. "I was the proud daughter of Indian immigrants — not Black, not white. It's time for a new generation of leadership."

Former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley announces her run for the White House. Here's what to know about the Republican, a former U.N. ambassador.

[ban on Muslim immigration](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2017/01/18/heres-where-haley-disagrees-trump-foreign-policy/96735802/). Yet [she supported Trump](https://www.politico.com/story/2017/03/nikki-haley-trump-travel-ban-236122) when he blocked people from six Muslim-majority countries from entering the U.S. While Haley has supported Trump in the past, she has also criticized Trump, including after the Jan. Haley is a pro-life Republican and a supporter of Israel. "I want to make it crystal clear that this step is not a retreat from our human rights commitments," In June 2018 Haley announced the U.S. In 2018 she unexpectedly stepped down. In 2017, Haley served as Trump's U.N. Before that she spent six years in the South Carolina legislature. [Nikki Haley to launch 2024 presidential bid in Charleston on Feb. ambassador to the United Nations. Haley, the former governor of South Carolina and U.N.

Nikki Haley, a former South Carolina Governor and Donald Trump's ambassador to the United Nations, announced Tuesday that she's running for president, ...

Former South Carolina Republican Governor Nikki Haley speaks at the Republican Jewish Coalition Annual Leadership Meeting in Las Vegas, Nevada, on November 19, ...

As governor, she signed an "extreme abortion ban into law with no exceptions for rape or incest," backed plans to cut to Medicare benefits and pushed for tax cuts for the wealthy, the DNC said in a statement. Born and raised in South Carolina, Haley noted how her Indian parents made her "different" from most other Americans, which she said forced her to look for similarities with other people instead. Not long after the attack, Haley said she was "disgusted" by what Trump had done. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., is neck and neck with Haley at 3% of the vote. China and Russia are on the march. In China, the leaders are committing genocide while the Iranian government murders people who challenge its policies, she said. Tim Scott, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Sen. One of Trump's staunchest Republican opponents in the U.S. That has to change," Haley said in a video posted to her Twitter account. Ron DeSantis, who is widely expected to enter the race, has 31% of GOP support while Trump's former vice president, Mike Pence, who's likewise hinted at a possible run, has 7% of the vote. She called for a new generation of leaders, saying Biden's record was "abysmal" and that the "Washington establishment has failed us over and over and over again." [A Morning Consult poll on](https://morningconsult.com/2024-gop-primary-election-tracker/) Tuesday, for instance, shows Trump backed by 47% of Republican primary voters, while just 3% of respondents said they would pick Haley.

Former South Carolina Republican Gov. Nikki Haley announced Tuesday in a video that she will run for president in 2024, becoming the first major rival to ...

The second question is, am I that person that could be that new leader?” she told Fox News. Some Republican strategists say a big Republican primary field would be advantageous to Trump, who still enjoys significant support among the party base, and could splinter the vote, allowing the former president to walk away with the nomination. During her video announcement, Haley touted her record as a twice-elected governor of South Carolina and her leadership in the state after nine people were fatally shot at a historically Black church in Charleston in 2015. “And can I be that leader? Six years later, she became the first woman elected as governor of the state in 2010 and was the youngest governor in the nation when she took office in 2011. She resigned in the middle of her second term to become Trump’s ambassador to the UN – a role she served in until the end of 2018. Ron DeSantis, former Vice President Mike Pence and former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who are all said to be weighing 2024 runs and could also appeal to conservative Republicans looking to turn the page from Trump. “Some people look at America and see vulnerability,” Haley said. China and Russia are on the march. It’s time for a new generation of leadership to rediscover fiscal responsibility, secure our border and strengthen our country, our pride and our purpose,” Haley, who is expected to deliver remarks Wednesday in Charleston at a campaign launch event, said in the video. In Iran they murder their own people for challenging the government. I was the proud daughter of Indian immigrants.

Nikki Haley, a former U.N. ambassador and South Carolina governor, is the first major Republican to challenge Donald Trump in 2024 presidential race.

While Haley has supported Trump in the past, she has also criticized Trump, including after the Jan. “It’s not a Muslim ban,” Haley said at the time. Haley is a pro-life Republican and a supporter of Israel. In 2020, Haley told USA TODAY it was too early to make a decision on running for the White House. In June 2018 Haley announced the U.S. Haley did not support legislation in South Carolina that would have required transgender people to use bathrooms that correspond to their gender assigned at birth. Lindsey Graham wrote a description on Haley for the magazine. In posting her announcement video, Haley tweeted: "Get excited! Before that she spent six years in the South Carolina Legislature. "I want to make it crystal clear that this step is not a retreat from our human rights commitments," Haley said. Haley, the former governor of South Carolina and U.N. ambassador to the United Nations.

Haley enters the race as former President Donald Trump's first challenger in the Republican presidential primary.

She’s also traveling to Iowa and New Hampshire later in the week, where she’ll host town halls. Early polls show her trailing behind Trump and DeSantis, but should Haley win the GOP primary, she would make history as the first woman and first Asian American to lead the Republican ticket. She then resigned early to go rake in money on corporate boards,” Budowich said in the statement. I don’t think you need to be 80 years old to go be a leader in D.C.” And if Scott chooses to run, the two will likely enter a battle for endorsements from their many shared advisers, donors and allies in the Palmetto State and beyond. The Washington establishment has failed us over and over and over again.”

Haley, 51, is the first in a long line of Republicans who are expected to launch 2024 campaigns in the coming months.

“She said she would never run against me because I was the greatest president, but people change their opinions, and they change what’s in their hearts,” Trump said. She later shifted course, citing inflation, crime, drugs and a “foreign policy in disarray” among her reasons for considering a White House campaign. During his South Carolina stop last month, Trump told WIS-TV that Haley had called to seek his opinion on running for president. With her 2010 victory, Haley became South Carolina’s first female and minority governor — and the nation’s youngest at 38. But she changed her mind in recent months, citing, among other things, the country’s economic troubles and the need for “generational change,” a nod to the 76-year-old Trump’s age. For years, Haley had resisted calls to remove the Confederate flag from the Statehouse grounds, even casting a rival’s push for its removal as a desperate stunt. 6, 2021 insurrection, Haley initially cast doubts on Trump’s political future but said she wouldn’t challenge him in 2024. Shortly after Trump’s victory, he tapped Haley to be his U.N. [early supporter](https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/south-carolina-gov-nikki-haley-backs-rubio) of Florida Sen. But after the massacre and with the support of other leading Republicans, Haley advocated for legislation to remove the flag. Three terms later and with little statewide recognition, Haley mounted a long-shot campaign for governor against a large field of experienced politicians. “I’m Nikki Haley, and I’m running for president.”

Haley served as the governor of South Carolina and U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.

Tim Scott, whom Haley appointed to the position in 2012, will be appearing at event in his home state on Thursday to talk about Black conservatism. ambassador to the United Nations, serving in the role from January 2017 to December 2018. But GOP operatives and South Carolina-based Republican leaders have said Haley's recognition in and ties to the Palmetto State could help her in a presidential run. While Trump has offered Haley luck and said he encouraged her to "follow her heart," Taylor Budowich, head of the Trump-aligned MAGA Inc. At this point, I expect the next 12 months to prove how well she can master the national stage." If she wins the Republican presidential nomination in 2024, she would make history again as the first woman and first Asian-American at the top of the GOP ticket. I don't think you need to be 80 years old to go be a leader in D.C.," Haley told Fox News in January. "With Nikki Haley officially entering the race for the presidency — and the only true contender at this point being her former boss — this is going to prove to be a fight of formidable foes," Dave Wilson of the Palmetto Family Council, a prevalent South Carolina conservative-leaning nonprofit, told CBS News. Following her two terms in the governor's mansion, she was selected by Trump as U.S. "She then resigned early to go rake in money on corporate boards. ambassador to the United Nations, announced Tuesday that she will make a bid for the White House, becoming the first Republican to challenge former President Donald Trump for the party's nomination. Haley will return to South Carolina in mid-March for a conservative forum.

The former South Carolina governor and Trump official has navigated racial conflict throughout her private and political life life — as well as the shifting ...

[she said it](https://twitter.com/NikkiHaley/status/1266580202873860098) “needs to be personal and painful for everyone.” Tucker Carlson objected. And she insisted she wasn’t going to be “a wallflower” and needed “to be able to say what I think.” He agreed to all three. “You had to be one of us to get elected.” More than a decade later, [he told Tim Alberta](https://www.politico.com/interactives/2021/magazine-nikki-haleys-choice/), “Everybody knew she wasn’t a real Christian.”) Haley started every speech in her campaign for governor the same way: “I am the proud daughter of Indian parents who reminded us every day how blessed we are to live in this country.” “Make sure you order your copy today!” [Trump wrote on Twitter](https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1193665354729431040?lang=en). [Appalachian Trail](https://www.postandcourier.com/politics/scs-mark-sanford-returned-from-hiking-the-appalachian-trail-10-years-ago-today/article_66eb4780-9687-11e9-acbf-8315bf00be44.html)” Mark Sanford — she was the underdog. In the stretch run of the primary, a political blogger claimed to have had a romantic relationship with Haley, and a prominent lobbyist in Columbia who was a fundraiser for the campaign of one of her opponents said he and Haley had had a one-night stand. “I think I do what every mother does, which is the best I can,” [she once said](https://whosonthemove.com/representative-nikki-randhawa-haley-accountant-business-owner-193401/) — although she is [admittedly a terrible cook](https://www.google.com/books/edition/Can_t_Is_Not_an_Option/f1OCh4wACWEC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=To+this+day,+if+my+husband,+Michael,+didn%E2%80%99t+cook,+my+family+would+never+have+a+home-cooked+meal&pg=PT19&printsec=frontcover): If her husband didn’t cook, she has written, “my family would never have a home-cooked meal.” “And I was not just demoted, but he attempted to embarrass me and humiliate me in the process.” “It’s time for a new generation of leadership,” she said [in the campaign video she released Tuesday](https://www.thedailybeast.com/nikki-haley-releases-2024-presidential-campaign-video). She taped to the screen of her computer a saying she got from a fortune cookie during her campaign. “If she decided something had to be a certain way…” She was brown (“different,” she has said) in places severed into Black and white.

The former UN ambassador is the first to join Donald Trump in the Republican field.

The day after the riot, she said in a speech that "his actions since election day will be judged harshly by history". Now is the time for a strong and proud America," "Now is not the time to hold back.

Haley, 51, is the first in a long line of Republicans who are expected to launch 2024 campaigns in the coming months. Among them are Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, ...

“She said she would never run against me because I was the greatest president, but people change their opinions, and they change what’s in their hearts,” Trump said. But after the massacre and with the support of other leading Republicans, Haley advocated for legislation to remove the flag. She later shifted course, citing inflation, crime, drugs and a “foreign policy in disarray” among her reasons for considering a White House campaign. She defeated the longest-serving member of the South Carolina House in 2004 in her first bid for public office. In the 2016 presidential primary, Haley was an early supporter of Florida Sen. With her 2010 victory, Haley became South Carolina’s first female and minority governor — and the nation’s youngest at 38. [said two years ago](https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-orangeburg-south-carolina-united-nations-nikki-haley-fda929b5d69ab0a91b97edc62207bcfb) that she wouldn’t challenge her former boss for the White House in 2024. 6, 2021 insurrection, Haley initially cast doubts on Trump’s political future but said she wouldn’t challenge him in 2024. Shortly after Trump’s victory, he tapped Haley to be his U.N. In an open-ended question asking Republicans to choose who they want to lead their party, a majority of Republicans didn’t choose either Trump or DeSantis, considered the former president’s top rival. “I’m Nikki Haley, and I’m running for president.” Ron DeSantis, former Vice President Mike Pence, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Sen.

Sometimes Trump is a friend, sometimes “'friend' is a loose term.”

She [also said](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/south-carolina-governor-nikki-haley-anyone-but-trump/) at the time that Trump was “everything a governor does not want in a president.” 6 insurrection, [Politico asked her](https://www.politico.com/interactives/2021/magazine-nikki-haleys-choice/) whether she still felt that way. [she said](https://www.cnn.com/2016/11/15/politics/gop-governors-donald-trump/) at a gathering of GOP governors. “We should not want to go back to the Republican Party before Trump,” she said. [signed a law](https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/confederate-flag-furor/gov-haley-sign-bill-removing-confederate-flag-n389231) that removed it, she only did so after intense backlash. “Women who accuse anyone should be heard,” she said—appearing to criticize Trump while being careful not to suggest he should face any consequences. She went on to [accept Trump’s job offer](https://www.cnn.com/2016/11/23/politics/nikki-haley-picked-for-un-ambassador/index.html) to be the next U.S. [ said she considered Trump](https://www.wsj.com/articles/nikki-haley-embraces-trump-in-her-vision-of-gop-future-11633424400) a friend in 2015 when speaking at a National Press Club event. “I will not stop until we fight a man that chooses not to disavow the KKK,” she said at a rally. A few months later, after Trump won the presidency, she made a complete reversal. That is not who we want as president.” (Her comment came shortly after Trump said he needed to In her announcement video Tuesday, she didn’t mention Trump by name, focusing only on Republicans’ low popular vote numbers and the need for “generational change.”

Former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley said on Tuesday that she will seek the Republican presidential nomination in 2024, putting her at odds with one-time boss ...

She has distanced herself from Trump several times, only to later soften her rhetoric, saying he has an important role to play in the Republican Party. "Nikki has to follow her heart, not her honor. WASHINGTON, Feb 14 (Reuters) - Former American ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley on Tuesday kicked off her campaign for the 2024 Republican U.S. Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina, New Hampshire Governor [Chris Sununu](/world/us/new-hampshire-governor-sununu-definitely-thinking-about-white-house-run-2023-02-05/) and former Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson, among others. 6-13, while 31% said they supported Florida Governor [Ron DeSantis](/world/us/before-facing-trump-2024-desantis-seeks-wins-guns-abortion-2023-02-10/), who is expected to launch a campaign but has not yet done so. Haley, a former South Carolina governor who served as the U.N.

Haley, 51, is the first in a long line of Republicans who are expected to launch 2024 campaigns.

“She said she would never run against me because I was the greatest president, but people change their opinions, and they change what’s in their hearts,” Trump said. But after the massacre and with the support of other leading Republicans, Haley advocated for legislation to remove the flag. She later shifted course, citing inflation, crime, drugs and a “foreign policy in disarray” among her reasons for considering a White House campaign. In the 2016 presidential primary, Haley was an early supporter of Florida Sen. With her 2010 victory, Haley became South Carolina’s first female and minority governor — and the nation’s youngest at 38. [said two years ago](https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-orangeburg-south-carolina-united-nations-nikki-haley-fda929b5d69ab0a91b97edc62207bcfb) that she wouldn’t challenge her former boss for the White House in 2024. Trump pointed out her earlier pledge not to run against him but said he made no attempts to stop her. 6, 2021 insurrection, Haley initially cast doubts on Trump’s political future but said she wouldn’t challenge him in 2024. Three terms later and with little statewide recognition, Haley mounted a long-shot campaign for governor against a large field of experienced politicians. Shortly after Trump’s victory, he tapped Haley to be his U.N. “I’m Nikki Haley, and I’m running for president.” Ron DeSantis, former Vice President Mike Pence, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Sen.

Clip released on day of Republican's announcement that she will challenge Donald Trump for nomination. Nikki Haley announces her presidential run.

The same year, however, she [said](https://www.wistv.com/story/30785607/gov-nikki-haley-secessionist-gathering-should-be-permitted/) a statehouse celebration of the anniversary of secession should be allowed to proceed. [resigned](https://governor.sc.gov/news/2017-01/mcmaster-sworn-sc-governor-after-haley-resigns) as governor to become his United Nations ambassador. When we do that, not only will it be me as the governor, I think it will be several states and governors that go and take our states back and keep Washington out of the way. Haley originally said she would not challenge Trump for the nomination if he ran in 2024. Her questioner said he was “positive too … “And as that happens, they’re gonna look at our governors for good conservative policy. “I believe that … Haley, who is Indian American, ran for governor in South Carolina in 2010 and won a second term in 2014. as perpetual, and as indissoluble as the union between the original states. Four bloody years of fighting led to the defeat of those Confederate states. There [is] no place for reconsideration, or revocation, except through revolution, or through consent of the states”. See, Texas v White (1869).

As she said in her campaign announcement tweet, 'Get excited,'” Colbert said on Tuesday.

Even weirder: all the ones that he taped up to use in place of curtains.” — SETH MEYERS She served in Trump’s cabinet, which is listed on her website in very, very small font.” — JIMMY FALLON Oh, Nikki Epic Fail-y?’” — JIMMY KIMMEL “She said she believes the Republican Party needs to go in a new direction. “Of course, any campaign veteran will tell you there is no better time to drop the biggest political news of your life than on Valentine’s Day at 6:48 a.m.” Stephen Colbert said. I think you’d have more luck convincing a swarm of moths to go in a new direction.

Former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley is expected to say that not enough Americans feel proud of their country and that it's time for a new ...

It’s time for a new generation of leadership to rediscover fiscal responsibility, secure our border and strengthen our country, our pride and our purpose,” Haley said in her announcement video Tuesday. He continued, “I would always tell her in the Statehouse, ‘Well, I would play the chick card right now.’ She’d say, ‘I’m not doing that, Nathan.’ She was focused more on the data, the numbers, here’s why we need to do it. She left her post in the administration on good terms with Trump – a rare feat – but then publicly criticized him for his involvement in stoking the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol. In recent weeks, Trump has asked multiple advisers about creating a new disparaging nickname for his potential rival, privately suggesting that he target DeSantis’s weight instead of referring to him as “Ron Desanctimonious.” She resigned in the middle of her second term to become Trump’s ambassador to the United Nations – a role she served in until the end of 2018. Trump won the South Carolina primary by 10 points in 2016, which helped propel him to the nomination amid a crowded Republican field. Some Republican strategists say a big Republican primary field would be advantageous to Trump, who still enjoys significant support among the party base, and could splinter the vote, allowing the former president to walk away with the nomination. If successful in the primary, Haley, the daughter of Indian immigrants, would be the first woman and the first Asian American nominated by the Republican Party for president. We need to renew our American pride and stop apologizing for our founding values,” said the person familiar with Haley’s thinking, who requested anonymity to discuss the campaign. Her announcement could provide a jolt to what has so far been a slow-moving Republican primary campaign season, with many potential candidates hesitant to be the first to follow former President Donald Trump into the race. In her announcement speech, Haley will “lean into that idea that America is not racist, and we should be proud of who we are as Americans. [video ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPquYgGbAMA)and will appear at an event in Charleston Wednesday, before traveling to the early-voting states of New Hampshire and Iowa in the following days.

He reshaped the Republican Party in his image and won the party's last presidential nomination by acclamation. So how do GOP hopefuls challenge Donald Trump ...

"The press often will ask me if I think Donald Trump is crazy, and I’ll say it this way: I don’t think he’s so crazy that you could put him in a mental institution," he joked. (Unsaid: That includes Trump's two races.) "That has to change," she declared, saying it was time for a "new generation" of leaders and flashing the words "NEW GENERATION" on the screen to make sure no one missed the point. The more traditional Republican agenda stands in contrast to Trump's populist message. But Pence also points out their greatest breach: when he refused Trump's entreaties to try to overturn the results of the 2020 election on Jan. Instead, Pence has been embracing Trump's record on the economy, immigration, the pandemic and foreign policy, arguing he deserves a share of credit for the administration's achievements. On his social media account on Truth Social this month, Trump shared a photo of a man, purportedly DeSantis, with three young women and the caption "Here is Ron DeSanctimonious grooming high school girls with alcohol as a teacher." "Unfortunately, at the end of the day, November of '22 showed us that, right? [announced her campaign with release of a video;](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2023/02/14/nikki-haley-2024-presidential-bid-announcement-video/11253771002/) her opening rally is set for Wednesday. Two years ago, she said she wouldn't seek the nomination if Trump decided he wanted it again. For those now calculating their campaigns, the trouble with Trump is not only the task of defeating him for the nomination. Though there are some quiet concerns, including his age, Biden doesn't yet face a credible challenger for the nomination, which gives him the luxury of delaying his own announcement as the other side begins to fight things out. [Trump announced his own campaign](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2022/11/16/donald-trump-president-candidacy-2024-live-updates/10297004002/) just a week after the midterm elections in November, although there had been little doubt he would seek to become just the second commander-in-chief to serve nonconsecutive terms.

Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said on Tuesday she will seek the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, putting her at odds with ...

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At the same time, Haley has joined other Republicans in promoting efforts to capture harmful emissions from heavily polluting industries, rather than preventing ...

[Floating ice around Antarctica just hit a record low](https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/02/14/antarctic-sea-ice-record-low/?itid=lk_inline_manual_74)— Chris Mooney for The Post [Rising seas risk climate migration on ‘biblical scale,’ says U.N. In addition to wondering about their drinking water, residents have worried about a strong odor of toxic chemicals hanging over the town. The group faulted her for complaining about the Clean Power Plan, failing to prepare for increased flooding, and reportedly quashing a climate change report from the state’s Department of Natural Resources. However, the EPA rebuffed calls from several groups to dedicate the funding to a single, national green bank. The Biden administration is also issuing new rules for any chargers that receive federal funds to make these stations more accessible. The others included ethylene glycol monobutyl ether and ethylhexyl acrylate. The announcement will help accelerate President Biden’s plan of creating a national network of 500,000 EV chargers. Or what the solutions to climate change are? They say she must match her rhetoric with support for phasing out fossil fuels, the primary driver of the problem. Want to know what the Green New Deal is? Here’s a closer look at Haley’s approach to climate policy, which comes as sea levels around Charleston, S.C. “It is completely different now.

Haley was the U.N. ambassador under Trump from 2017 through 2018.

Haley at the beginning of her speech praised John Hagee, a pastor and televangelist, who offered the invocation during Wednesday's event. And we are more than ready for a new generation to lead us into the future," she said. - "If you're tired of losing, put your trust in a new generation. [Nikki Haley avoids a Trump nickname on her 2024 launch day](https://www.axios.com/2023/02/14/trump-nikki-haley-2024-presidential-election) [announced in November](https://www.axios.com/2022/11/16/donald-trump-2024-president-run) that he was seeking the Republican nomination. ambassador to the UN under Trump from 2017 through 2018. [soft-launched her campaign](https://www.axios.com/2023/02/14/nikki-haley-2024-presidential-campaign-video) on Tuesday with a video that previewed her life and work background. [former President Trump](https://www.axios.com/politics-policy/donald-trump) in her speech. [former President Trump](https://www.axios.com/politics-policy/donald-trump), who was her boss, in the Republican primary. - Haley, 51, was the U.S. [Nikki Haley](https://www.axios.com/2022/03/31/nikki-haley-book-2024) announced at a campaign event in South Carolina on Wednesday that she is running for president. [Politics & Policy](https://www.axios.com/politics-policy)

Nikki Haley becomes the first candidate to challenge Donald Trump for the Republican nomination when she holds her first campaign event in Charleston, South ...

What she does have is her resume, her political acumen and a different kind of background. She says that she supported Mr Trump in past campaigns, but the party needs to move in a different direction in 2024. "And we are more than ready for a new generation to lead us into the future." But then publicly she was effusively supportive of the president - and it was very clear why. "China's dictators want to cover the world in communist tyranny, and we are the only ones who can stop this," she said at her Charleston rally. She'd put on a pair of jeans and a pair of boots and go to the biker bar and sit there and talk with them." "Like a lot of us she privately abhorred the president. "He just needs to be quiet," she added. The Cabinet-level position allowed Ms Haley to develop her foreign policy credentials. The first thing to know about Nikki Haley is she has never lost a race for office. It was the right time," Mr Wilson said. "It was the right moment.

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Republican Nikki Haley plans to formally announce her 2024 presidential campaign on Wednesday, betting that her boundary-breaking ...

If elected, Haley would be the first woman as well as woman of color to assume the presidency, a historic fact that she embraced — to an extent. Those in the crowd said they were excited by the prospect of a Haley presidency. “She had a lot to go through as our governor.” In unveiling her campaign in Charleston, Haley sought to show some strength in her home state, which holds a critical early primary that influences the GOP nomination. [Ron DeSantis](/hub/ron-desantis), former Vice President [Mike Pence](/hub/michael-pence) and former Secretary of State [Mike Pompeo](/hub/mike-pompeo) are among those expected to launch campaigns in the coming months. Ralph Norman — whom Trump backed in the 2022 midterm elections — became the first House member from South Carolina to publicly endorse Haley. The Charleston shooting was a defining moment of Haley’s governorship. Still, she insisted that America was not a “racist country.” One of the survivors, Felicia Sanders, was in attendance Wednesday. Among the speakers who introduced her was the mother of Sanders’ son Tywanza was killed in the massacre. [oldest president in history](/article/biden-us-supreme-court-health-climate-and-environment-1fc6c7a33a3d31121b5c040e14686fa7), a fact that makes even some Democrats uneasy.

Haley is a woman of color who led South Carolina in taking down the Confederate flag from its state capitol. That makes campaigning complex in the party of ...

And you don't pay any penalty for playing to that extreme-right ideology that is replicated at the national level in states like Florida and Texas," she explained. "It's just going to score her points with people who want the Republican Party to return to some normalcy. But how many of those groups are left in the Republican Party?" "I was the proud daughter of Indian immigrants. "Here is this guy who comes out with his manifesto, holding the Confederate flag and had just hijacked everything that people thought of," she told Beck. "The moment provided that opportunity, and I think she should get credit for moving quickly." "For those who wish to show their respect for the flag on their private property. But then, less than a year later, she took the post of U.S. Haley has often referenced that time after the shooting as an important period of her governorship. But the statehouse is different," she said shortly after the shooting. And with Haley, the topic of race highlights how her politics have shifted. She is also one of several potential candidates with a tricky pattern to justify to voters: vehemently opposing Trump, then embracing him and now, running against him.

Haley's White House bid makes her the first major challenger to former President Donald Trump, who has technically been on the campaign trail for months.

"For a strong America, for a proud America, I am running for President of the United States of America." And I'm just getting started," Haley said. After Haley's first campaign event in Charleston, she's headed to hit the campaign trail with stops in the key primary states of New Hampshire and Iowa.

A presidential bid and a measure of how far Reaganism has fallen.

Reagan was the leader of the conservative movement at the time; Ms. The new generation of conservatives who rose to prominence after Mr. Trump, she said she “totally” agreed with “most of the policies that he did.” When Mr. Haley’s strength in the polls may not be a great test of the electoral appeal of traditional conservatism. Putin — it may say something about the appetite for her brand of conservatism. With Chinese balloons in the air and Russian troops advancing on the ground, a hawkish candidate should find it straightforward to argue for higher military spending and closer cooperation with allies — and to argue against cozying up to the likes of Vladimir Putin. Almost all presidential candidates who start in the single digits end at zero, and that usually doesn’t say much about the strength of their ideological faction. Haley, a former Rubio ’16 supporter and the child of Indian immigrants, is a darling of neoconservatives and a defender of Reagan’s continued relevance. Here again, it’s easy to imagine the opportunity to attack Mr. Trump, but unlikely to be the last. It’s the first major Republican challenge to Mr. Of all the candidates, she might be the likeliest to run back the Gipper’s Greatest Hits and, in doing so, teach us a thing or two about whether they still resonate among today’s Republican voters.

Rep. Ralph Norman (R-S.C.) endorsed former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (R) for president on Wednesday, ...

[attend](https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fthehill.com%2Fhomenews%2Fcampaign%2F3857406-tim-scott-joining-haley-at-presidential-forum%2F&data=05%7C01%7CRZilbermints%40TheHill.com%7C416491dc9d4249b2670908db0f61423f%7C9e5488e2e83844f6886cc7608242767e%7C0%7C0%7C638120682631240862%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=6kVR70tqVdUQLaeuUPPqvLOTFa2hEKDRQjLtz5DN8no%3D&reserved=0) a presidential forum alongside Haley in South Carolina next month. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said in a tweet on Tuesday. Haley is set to hold a presidential announcement event in Charleston, S.C., on Wednesday. Norman is a member of the hard-line conservative House Freedom Caucus and was one of the 20 House Republicans withholding support from Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) told CNN on Tuesday. Nikki Haley (R) for president on Wednesday, her first endorsement from the South Carolina congressional delegation. Nikki Haley has that vision, and she’s going to be an outstanding President,” Norman told Fox News. She’s got experience on the global scale,” Rep. “We are at a pivotal point in our nation. ambassador to the United Nations and former South Carolina Gov. Norman pushed for the House to pass a plan to balance the federal budget. Ralph Norman (R-S.C.) endorsed former U.S.

Haley, a former South Carolina governor and U.N. ambassador, released a video on Tuesday declaring her candidacy. The Wednesday event in the historic coastal ...

Her video included imagery of her serving as Trump’s ambassador to the U.N. But she changed her mind in recent months, citing the country’s economic troubles, among other things. In the video released on Tuesday, she spoke of growing up in a small South Carolina town as the daughter of Indian immigrants who experienced racist taunts. For years, Haley had resisted calls to remove the Confederate flag from the Statehouse grounds, even casting a rival’s push for its removal as a desperate stunt. (AP) — Republican Nikki Haley plans to formally announce her 2024 presidential campaign on Wednesday, betting that her boundary-breaking career as a woman and person of color who governed in the heart of the South before representing the U.S. She highlighted her two successful elections as South Carolina governor, starting with the 2010 victory that made her the state’s first female and minority governor — along with the nation’s youngest, at 38. shooting down multiple aerial objects in recent weeks, including a suspected Chinese spy balloon off the South Carolina coast, Haley is likely to position herself as well versed in foreign policy. He remains popular with a wide swath of voters who will have significant sway in the primary, though some party officials have blamed him for the GOP’s lackluster performance in last year’s midterms. Ron DeSantis, former Vice President Mike Pence and former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo are among those expected to launch campaigns in the coming months. But after the massacre and with the support of other leading Republicans, Haley advocated for legislation to remove the flag. The announcement makes Haley the first major Republican to officially challenge Trump, but she will hardly be the last. Ralph Norman — whom Trump backed in the 2022 midterm elections — became the first House member from South Carolina to publicly endorse Haley, tweeting that he would attend her launch.

“In the America I see, the permanent politician will finally retire,” said Haley, who served as U.N. ambassador during Donald Trump's presidency. “We'll have ...

And we are the only ones who can stop them.” And I don’t believe in glass ceilings, either,” Haley said. That has to change,” Haley said in the video. And if you want to win not just as a party but as a country, stand with me.” “America is not past our prime,” she added. “In the America I see, the permanent politician will finally retire,” said Haley, who served as U.N.

Nikki Haley, one of the many Republicans who swore to stop Donald Trump in 2016 and then became a loyal supporter, is now running against Trump.

(Robert Vaughn, star of the ITC series The Protectors, [admitted in later years](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBx5lOe4xjI) that even he didn’t really understand some of the plots in the show.) [Up for Debate](https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/sign-up/up-for-debate/): [Conor Friedersdorf makes the case](https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2023/02/the-airtight-case-against-internet-pile-ons/673074/)against internet pile-ons. [The Weekly Planet](https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/sign-up/weekly-planet/): Electric cars are basically just cars now, [Emma Marris writes](https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2023/02/electric-vehicles-netflix-gm-deal-emissions-climate-change/673059/). Donald Trump is still the leader of the GOP and its choice (so far) for president in 2024, and Haley, like Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and others, is courting Trump’s base. Haley knows how to [say the right things](https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/meetthepressblog/timeline-nikki-haleys-trump-statements-rcna70456) about how the violence of January 6 was bad, but to this day she [refuses to hold Trump accountable](https://www.politico.com/interactives/2021/magazine-nikki-haleys-choice/), and so there is no way to know if she or any other candidate will withstand the antidemocratic demands of Republican primary voters. (And it’s paying off for her: At 38 years old, she’s the House GOP conference chair.) To win in 2024, Haley and every other Republican candidate are going to turn into some version of Trump, or Stefanik, or Vance, and this makes every one of them untrustworthy around the levers of national power. Some of the critics who come at the Never Trumpers from the right will likely argue that rejecting someone such as Haley means, in effect, that Never Trump means Always Democrats, based on the magical thinking that Haley and other Republicans, if only given the chance, can restore some sanity to the party. Vance](https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/07/moral-collapse-jd-vance/619428/), and so many others, sees principles as disposable, making her yet another example of why the GOP cannot be trusted with power. [taking some heat from Trump](https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/3840814-trump-taunts-haley-about-past-statements-on-challenging-him/) as a way of providing top cover to other candidates who will then reward her with the vice-president spot. [video](https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/02/nikki-haley-needs-to-work-on-her-presidential-elevator-pitch.html) announcing Haley’s candidacy was as vapid and weightless a product as any in recent political memory. (Right now, Haley is [polling](https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/3821109-trump-is-heavy-favorite-in-gop-2024-primary-poll/) somewhere between Mike Pence and a dust bunny; she’s tied at 3 percent with a hypothetical Rubio candidacy.) So why is she running at all? [she said](https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2016/02/29/nikki-haley-faults-donald-trump-for-not-condemning-white-supremacists/) at a Marco Rubio rally seven years ago this month.

The former president's Republican rivals appear highly reluctant to criticize him, and Nikki Haley mostly tiptoed around him as she jumped into the race ...

“The challenge for this field is to tell the truth,” said Chris Christie, a Republican former governor of New Jersey and a potential candidate for president who has been vocally critical of Mr. Ms. She will have to signal that she is in it to win it, Mr. But she also emphasized that she had been taught to accentuate what Americans have in common, not what separates them, a reassuring message for the white voters who dominate the Republican Party. Trump, Ms. In her announcement video on Tuesday and her speech on Wednesday, she pointed to her experiences in the governor’s mansion in Columbia, S.C., and to her time as United Nations ambassador. But she was light on listing accomplishments to burnish a claim to the highest elective office in the land. “They are fighting over non-Trump conservatives who’d like to see the party win elections and who are tired of the chaos,” Mr. Trump, but moving on from the last Republican presidency will be tricky, said Chip Felkel, a longtime Republican consultant in South Carolina and a critic of Mr. Trump, who will turn 77 in June, but the partisans in the audience clearly saw them directed at Mr. It’s the first major Republican challenge to Mr. In a mass email castigating “the real Nikki Haley,” the campaign tied her to Hillary Clinton, and said she wanted to cut Social Security and Medicare, would escalate the war in Ukraine and was weak on border control.

Nikki Haley, the Republican former governor of South Carolina and the former US ambassador to the United Nations, made the first speech of her 2024 ...

[wrote](https://www.cosmopolitan.com/politics/a32766156/kamala-harris-black-lives-matter-protests/) in Cosmopolitan magazine: “Let’s speak the truth: People are protesting because Black people have been treated as less than human in America. Black Americans – and Black men, in particular – have been treated, throughout the course of our history, as less than human. Their lives must be valued in our education system, in our health care system, in our housing system, in our economic system, in our criminal justice system, in our nation. [said](https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2021/04/20/remarks-by-vice-president-harris-on-the-verdict-in-the-derek-chauvin-trial-for-the-death-of-george-floyd/) upon Chauvin’s conviction in 2021: “America has a long history of systemic racism. [said](https://www.today.com/news/president-joe-biden-i-don-t-think-american-people-are-t216914) on NBC: “No, I don’t think the American people are racist. In basic terms, that’s the idea that racism is baked into institutions’ laws, policies and practices rather than merely perpetrated by prejudiced individual bad apples. But we also do have to speak truth about the history of racism in our country and its existence today. And I applaud the president for always having the ability, and the courage, frankly, to speak the truth about it.” In health care, education, housing, economic mobility, environmental justice, civil rights, and our justice system itself.” Biden and Harris were asked in April 2021 about an assertion from South Carolina Sen. Like many kickoff speeches, Haley’s address in Charleston was heavy on broad themes and light on the kind of specific claims that can be fact-checked. Joe and Kamala even say America is racist.

The reason had nothing to do with his experience or qualifications. Haley, who served under former US President Donald Trump, explicitly rejected Fayyad because ...

“If you’re tired of losing, put your trust in a new generation,” Haley told a crowd of supporters. In his remarks, Hagee, who has previously described Muslim immigrants in the US as an “invasion”, paid a nod to Haley’s record on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Abed Ayoub, executive director of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC), also criticised Haley for giving Hagee a platform at the campaign launch. Early in her tenure as envoy, Haley made it clear that she would make backing Israel at the UN a priority. The 51-year-old also called for a generational change. Only seven countries joined the US and Israel in voting against the measure. But her candidacy has renewed criticism from Palestinian rights advocates who say Haley’s diplomatic career was defined by pro-Israel advocacy — and her “bigotry” against Palestinians was often overlooked. [US judge orders partial release of Georgia’s Trump election probe](/news/2023/2/13/us-judge-orders-partial-release-of-georgias-trump-election-probe?traffic_source=KeepReading) [Setbacks swamped Donald Trump in 2022. [officially in the race](/news/2022/11/15/donald-trump-2024-ex-president-to-announce-presidential-run) is Haley’s former boss, Trump, who is often described by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as the “best friend that Israel has ever had in the White House”. “As she has been a defender of Israel, so let her experience the promise of God given to Abraham and to all who are righteous,” the pastor said in a prayer. “Nikki Haley has a shameful history of enabling Israel’s violence against the Palestinian people, a defining feature of her tenure as the UN ambassador,” Iman Abid, advocacy director at the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights (USCPR), told Al Jazeera. “The United States does not currently recognize a Palestinian state or support the signal this appointment would send within the United Nations,” Haley said in a statement in February 2017, accusing the UN of bias in favour of Palestinians to “the detriment” of Israel.

Nikki Haley took aim at President Biden, who she said is "not leading at all," during a 2024 campaign event in South Carolina on Wednesday.

[CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP](https://www.foxnews.com/apps-products?pid=AppArticleLink) And in Communist China, we face the strongest and most disciplined enemy in history," Haley said. "On Biden and Harris’s watch, a self-loathing has swept our country," she said. Russia started the biggest war in Europe in 75 years. Our future is slipping. [Biden's ability](https://www.foxnews.com/category/person/joe-biden) to govern America, Haley suggested that he is "not leading at all."

Former UN ambassador Nikki Haley is expected to focus on the threats China and Russia pose to the United States and the need for fresh blood atop the ...

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The former South Carolina governor and former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations announced her candidacy for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination.

[Can’t Is Not an Option: My American Story](https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/310707/cant-is-not-an-option-by-nikki-haley/), is a memoir and was published in 2012. policy of “strategic ambiguity.” She [has also insisted](https://twitter.com/NikkiHaley/status/1623156616299220994?cxt=HHwWhMC4lfeVzoYtAAAA) that the United States should “hold Beijing accountable for COVID, stop China from buying American farmland, impose consequences for China's spying, and start acting like the leader of the free world.” She has yet to sketch out, however, how she will do these things, or how her approach to China would differ from what the Biden administration is doing or from what other Republican presidential nominees are likely to propose. [insisted](https://www.newsweek.com/nikki-haley-says-ukraine-invasion-never-would-have-happened-under-trump-1685317) that the invasion “never would have happened” if Trump were still president. Trump [said last fall](https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-disloyal-pence-former-cabinet-members-2024-republican-presidential-campaign-2022-10?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=yahoo.com) that it would be “very disloyal” of Haley or any other member of his administration to run against him for the presidency. [Reaganism](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/15/upshot/nikki-haley-republicans-president.html) than Trumpism. Trump also [posted a video clip](https://twitter.com/ronfilipkowski/status/1620903350337249314?s=12&t=5sQ-OeaHvrEqqqvkKQJrVA) on Truth Social of Haley promising not to run against him. [said](https://www.politico.com/news/2019/11/12/nikki-haley-defends-trump-069832) that “in every instance I dealt with him, he was truthful, he listened and he was great to work with.” Her tone changed immediately after January 6, 2021. [New Hampshire](https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/nikki-haley-unveils-new-hampshire-schedule) tomorrow and then heads for [Iowa](https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/nikki-haley-unveils-stops-iowa-likely-campaign-launch) on Monday. In 2016, she [signed legislation](https://www.foxnews.com/politics/south-carolina-gov-haley-signs-bill-banning-abortions-at-20-weeks) banning abortions at twenty weeks, [calling](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/nikki-haley-anti-abortion-speech_n_5cf599b4e4b0e8085e3edee4) pro-choice feminism “not real feminism.” One area in which she didn’t follow broader trends in the Republican party was with calls to prohibit transgender people from using the bathroom of their choice. In doing so, she became the second Indian American to become a governor of any state—Bobby Jindal of Louisiana became the first three years earlier—the first woman of Indian descent to become a governor, and the first woman to serve as governor of South Carolina. [ran a story](https://www.postandcourier.com/politics/its-official-nikki-haley-running-for-president-formal-announcement-feb-15/article_761b0b96-8c42-11ed-afdd-d330c30e8be3.html) back on January 31 with the headline: “It’s Official: Nikki Haley Running for President. (Jackson, for the record, always said he was from South Carolina.) And if Haley succeeds in her quest to sit in the Oval Office, she would be the first president since Jackson to be the child of immigrants.