Nikki Haley

The ex-UN ambassador is the first Republican to challenge Donald Trump for the presidency.

The day after the riot, she said in a speech that "his actions since election day will be judged harshly by history". She is the second major Republican candidate to run, after ex-boss Donald Trump launched his bid in November. Now is the time for a strong and proud America,"

The firebrand 51-year-old is about to launch a campaign to be the new presidential candidate. So who is she really? Sarah Baxter reports.

Hence Biden called his State of the Union address a “blue-collar blueprint to rebuild America” while the end of Roe v Wade – the 1973 pro-choice abortion law – got barely a mention. In contrast to vice-president Kamala Harris, Haley’s bid to be the first woman – and first woman of colour – to be president does not feature prominently in her sales pitch (although she might well attract Asian-Americans, who are breaking away from traditional Democratic voting patterns). “Nikki has to follow her heart, not her honour,” he smirked recently. Born Nimrata Randhawa to Indian parents from the Punjab, Haley describes herself as a “brown girl in a black and white world”. “My parents loved that when they came to America, if you worked hard, the only things that could stop you were the limits you placed on yourself,” she told the Republican National Convention in 2012. The firebrand 51-year-old is about to launch a campaign to be the new presidential candidate. Trump is salivating at the prospect of having a live “victim” to dispatch and prove his campaigning chops. Trump has already accused DeSantis of partying as a teacher with teenage girls and is trying to destroy his reputation for deft handling of Covid-19. We need a new generation to step up and fix things “I don’t think you need to be 80 years old to go be a leader in DC. Justin Evans, her former political director in South Carolina, tells me: “The Nikki I knew and worked for is not the Nikki who is running today.” If DeSantis and Trump mortally wound each other, Haley intends to come through the middle.

Having previously stated she wouldn't run against Trump, she now says the country needs a "generational change". | ITV National News.

“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. In the 2016 presidential primary, Haley was an early supporter of Florida Senator Marco Rubio, later shifting to Texas Senator Ted Cruz. During his South Carolina stop last month, Trump told WIS-TV that Haley had called to seek his opinion on running for president. With fresh revelations from our Number 10 sources, in their own words, listen to the inside story... It was one of the biggest news stories of our time - and it's still not over. "She then resigned early to go rake in money on corporate boards.

Ms Haley is the second Republican to announce a 2024 presidential campaign — former president Donald Trump announced his third bid for the White House last ...

“Nikki Haley served in Donald Trump’s administration, has embraced the most extreme elements of the MAGA agenda and couldn’t even identify a single policy difference between herself and Trump,” he said. The vast majority of Republican primary voters currently prefer either Mr Trump or Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, according to recent surveys. “My mom would always say your job is not to focus on the differences but the similarities. She and Mr Trump are now the only two declared presidential candidates running in the 2024 election. [Axios](https://www.axios.com/2023/02/14/nikki-haley-2024-presidential-campaign-video), Ms Haley references her upbringing as an Indian-American in a town beset by de facto racial segregation. Some think our ideas are not just wrong, but racist and evil.

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.

Former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley said on Tuesday (14 February) that she will seek the Republican presidential nomination in 2024, putting her at odds with ...

Her announcement was a sign the Republican nomination race is picking up steam. And when you kick back, it hurts them more if you’re wearing heels,” she said. He will then swing through Iowa, another key early voting state. The daughter of two Indian immigrants who ran a successful clothing store in a rural part of the state, Haley has gained a reputation in the Republican Party as a solid conservative who has the ability to address issues of gender and race in a more credible fashion than many of her peers. “China and Russia are on the march. Haley, a former South Carolina governor who served as US ambassador to the United Nations under Trump, will lay out her campaign plans in a speech in Charleston, South Carolina, on Wednesday.

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.

Nikki Haley, the former South Carolina governor and United Nations ambassador, announced her candidacy for president, becoming the first major challenger to ...

“She then resigned early to go rake in money on corporate boards. If elected, Ms Haley would be the nation’s first female president and the first US president of Indian descent. Nikki Haley, the former South Carolina governor and United Nations ambassador, announced her candidacy for president, becoming the first major challenger to former president Donald Trump for the 2024 Republican nomination.

Governor-turned-ambassador left government in 2018 but has never strayed far from allegiance to Trump.

With a full year left in her term as governor of South Carolina, Ms Haley announced her resignation and plans to join the Trump administration. They should be heard and they should be dealt with, and I think we heard them prior to the election,” she said. And we can't let that ever happen again,” she said at the time. At the time one of the most well-respected GOP governors in the country, Nikki Haley was expected to be a major player in the 2016 Republican nomination contest. Where Ms Haley goes from here is uncertain. Ms Haley calls the plan “un-American”. “I think any woman who has felt violated or felt mistreated in any way, they have every right to speak up.” Able to work with Democrats on issues like taking down the confederate flag from South Carolina’s statehouse in the aftermath of a racist massacre, Ms Haley was seen by many before the launch of Donald Trump’s campaign as would-be kingmaker. But as many analysts and experts have pointed out in the hours and days since it first became clear that an announcement was imminent, it’s unclear where Ms Haley goes from here. After joining Trumpworld, Ms Haley spends two years in the administration before her eventual resignation. Instead, like every other Republican, she watched her chosen champion swatted away by Mr Trump like a mere nuisance. On Tuesday, she joined the race officially, albeit in a prerecorded message.

The former US ambassador to the UN has announced she will run for the Republican nomination in 2024.

But she changed this position in recent months, citing the need for "generational change" in an apparent hint at the 76-year-old Mr Trump. People who are different are outsiders everywhere in the world," she wrote in her 2019 memoir. She publicly criticised Mr Trump after the 6 January 2021 riot at the Capitol - "We need to acknowledge he let us down," she told Politico. She said he represented "everything I taught my children not to do in kindergarten". At one point in 2021, she vowed not to challenge Mr Trump for the White House. [in an essay for the Washington Post](https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/nikki-haley-todays-climate-wouldnt-allow-us-to-remove-the-confederate-flag-in-south-carolina/2019/12/11/67373682-1c3c-11ea-8d58-5ac3600967a1_story.html) that her position had not changed - pinning the backlash to her latest comments on a change in culture. Mr Haley often touches on her background - she was born Nimrata Nikki Randhawa in Bamberg, South Carolina, to Punjabi Sikh immigrants from India who owned a clothing boutique. "There is a place for that flag," she said after signing its removal into law. Her victory in her home state of South Carolina made history on multiple fronts - she was the conservative southern state's first female and Asian-American governor. "If you come [here], the cost of doing business is going to be low," she said at the time. "We are going to be one of the lowest union-participation states." It's the latest first in a career that has been marked with them - so how did she become a presidential hopeful?

Republican Nikki Haley is expected to formally kick off her 2024 presidential campaign on Wednesday by highlighting her biography while trying to sidestep ...

Her video included imagery of her serving as Trump’s ambassador to the U.N. 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. As it did in 2016, a crowded field could work to Trump's advantage, allowing him to march to the nomination while his opponents divide support among themselves. 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.

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).