Nikki Haley has become the first candidate to challenge former President Donald Trump as the Republican candidate for the 2024 presidential elections. She held her first campaign event on February 15, 2022, in Charleston, South Carolina. The event was attended by hundreds of her supporters, who gathered in central Charleston.
Ms. Haley, 51, is significantly younger than Donald Trump and her potential Democratic rival, Joe Biden. She is using this as one of her selling points as the presidential candidate, “We are more than ready for a new generation to lead us into the future.” It is worth mentioning that Ms. Haley holds a stellar election record as she has never lost a race for a public office.
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Nikki Haley, former Governor of South Carolina, gained prominence in national politics when she successfully got the Confederate flag removed from the state capitol in Columbia in 2015 after a racially motivated mass shooting at a black church. In the 2016 elections, Ms. Haley backed Donald Trump as the Republican candidate.
Haley affirmed the United States’s willingness to use military force in response to further North Korean missile tests in the wake of the 2017–2018 North Korea crisis. She defended U.S. interests, particularly U.S. support of Israel, at the Security Council, and led the withdrawal of the U.S. from the United Nations Human Rights Council. She decided to voluntarily step down as Ambassador on December 31, 2018.
After winning the election, President Trump appointed Ms. Haley as the UN ambassador, which helped Ms. Haley develop her credentials in foreign policy. However, now Ms. Haley’s former boss will be the biggest hurdle in her path to winning the Republican nomination and, ultimately, the presidential race.
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