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Nikki Haley officially announced Tuesday morning that she will be running for president in 2024.
This makes the former ambassador to the United Nations the first challenger to Donald Trump in the Republican presidential primaries.
‘Get excited! It’s time for a new generation,” the former South Carolina governor says in the first campaign video of her posted to Twitter on Tuesday.
The announcement comes as Haley prepares to hold her first official campaign event on Wednesday in her home state capital of Columbia, South Carolina.
Haley opens the three and a half minute video by talking about growing up in a racially segregated town.
‘I was the proud daughter of Indian immigrants, not black, not white. I was different,’ she says.
Nikki Haley officially announced in a video posted Tuesday morning that she will be running for president in 2024.
Haley, the daughter of Indian immigrants, is married to William Michael Haley (center left), who is a commissioned officer in the South Carolina Army National Guard. The two share a daughter, Rena (left), and a son, Nalin (right)
She denounced the idea that America is inherently ‘wrong’ or ‘racist’ because of its history.
“Some see our past as evidence that America’s founding principles are bad,” Haley said. They say the promise of freedom is a fabrication. Some think our ideas are not just wrong, but racist and evil. Could not be farther from the truth.’
“Even on our worst day, we are lucky to live in the United States,” she added before pointing to her accomplishments as South Carolina governor.
By announcing her candidacy so soon, Haley could have a chance to garner early support in some key states for a nomination, including Iowa, New Hampshire and her home state of South Carolina, all states in the early primary race.
While no other candidates have officially launched their 2024 campaigns, dozens have spoken about their intention and others are rumored to be considering a bid.
Haley could even see challenges from within her own state, as South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott, who is the only black Republican in the upper house, considers a bid of his own.
Moments after Haley announced his candidacy, Trump posted on his Truth Social account bragging about beating Republicans and President Joe Biden in recent polls for the 2024 presidential election.
He claimed that Biden and RINO, or Republicans in name only, are trying to “harm” him through legal battles so he won’t win a second term in the White House, but he wanted it to not work.
Haley served as the United States Ambassador to the United Nations under former President Donald Trump.
The daughter of Indian immigrants, Haley grew up in Bamberg, South Carolina and became the first woman and person of Asian descent to serve as governor of the state.
Haley was the first Indian American member of a presidential cabinet, serving in the Trump administration as US Ambassador to the UN for nearly two years. Pictured: Haley and Trump shake hands after the former president accepted her resignation in October 2018, she stepped down from her two months later.
“He’s doing very well in the polls,” Trump praised in his Truth post. “Leading all Republicans by a long shot, also leading Biden by a very wide margin, which means our armed Department of Injustice, local prosecutors and attorneys general will step up their unprecedented and illegal attacks to disparage me with false ‘fool. .. .’ and statements in the hope that they will hurt me enough to allow a RINO, or Biden, to “slip through the cracks.”
‘But be careful,’ he warned, ‘the Americans get it and they don’t like what they’re seeing. WIZARD!!!
Haley was in the Trump administration as the US ambassador to the United Nations for nearly two years, from January 2017 to December 2018.
A Yahoo News/YouGov poll last week shows Haley a distant third when facing a hypothetical primary race with Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who hasn’t announced a candidacy but is wildly popular with voters. Republican voters.
The former president would win in a tripartite election with 38 percent of the vote. Meanwhile, DeSantis would earn 35 percent and Haley would earn just 11 percent.
While he doesn’t earn enough to win, Haley’s consideration in the race could serve as a spoiler for DeSantis against Trump, according to the poll.