The former US ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley formally announced her candidacy for the Presidency of the United States for the 2024 elections on Tuesday.
Haley, also a former governor of South Carolina, made her announcement in a video posted on her social networks.
Get excited! Time for a new generation.
Let’s do this! ? ?? pic.twitter.com/BD5k4WY1CP
—Nikki Haley (@NikkiHaley) February 14, 2023
Through this statement he pointed out that “Republicans have lost the popular vote in seven of the last eight presidential elections. That has to change.”
She also argues that it is time for a new generation of leaders in the Republican party and highlights her achievements as governor, criticizing President Joe Biden and vowing to fight socialism.
The chain CNN summarizes that Haley was born in South Carolina, 1972, and that she is the daughter of Indian immigrants who established a successful clothing and gift business. Her full name is Nimrata Nikki Randhawa.
She grew up practicing Sikhism, but converted to Christianity after her marriage in 1996, in agreement with her husband Michael Haley that their children would be raised in that religion.
At age 26, she joined the board of directors of the Orangeburg County Chamber of Commerce, where she began a career that would lead to her being elected to the state legislature in 2004 for the Republican Party.
With the support of the Tea Party, the conservative movement that pushed a fraction of the Republican Party further to the right, he won his party’s gubernatorial nomination with the support of then-Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.
As governor, I enact a state law that prohibits abortion after 20 weeks, remember CNNand points out that he also enacted a law to combat illegal immigration.
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Haley becomes, for the moment, the only Republican who has stepped forward to dispute the presidential candidacy republican to former president donald trump (2017-2021).
Trump had already informed months ago of his intention to run.
With information from Efe.
