And then was TWO running for the Republican 2024 Presidential nomination….
Haley has little to chance…..
Former Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley announced Tuesday she is running for president in 2024.
Haley, a former South Carolina governor, enters the race as former President Donald Trump’s first challenger in the Republican presidential primary. She announced her run in a three-and-a-half minute video posted to Twitter, touting her accomplishments as governor and declares “it’s time for a new generation of leadership” in Washington.
“Republicans have lost the popular vote in seven out of the last eight presidential elections. That has to change,” Haley said in the video. “Joe Biden’s record is abysmal, but that shouldn’t come as a surprise. The Washington establishment has failed us over and over and over again.”…
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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 was previously the first female Asian American governor in the country, as well as the first Indian American to serve in a presidential Cabinet….
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Nikki Haley told NBC News that she “didn’t ask” for a blessing when she spoke to former President Donald Trump before announcing her 2024 White House bid this week.
Said Haley: “I told him that I thought that we needed to go in a new direction.”
image…NBC News
Haley did a pretty damn good speech….
She STILL REALLY has little chance….
But she’s coming at this as a bit of a moderate….
And Trump will come down on her as a TON of bricks….
Haley ‘went there’ against BOTH Biden and Trump on age….
Nikki Haley, the newly minted Republican presidential candidate, called on Wednesday for mandatory “mental competency tests” for politicians over the age of 75, an implied dig at President Biden and her one-time boss, former President Donald Trump.
Speaking at a rally in Charleston, S.C., kicking off her 2024 White House bid, Haley ran through a litany of political promises, including enacting term limits for members of Congress and cracking down on illegal immigration….
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Haley announced her campaign on Tuesday in a video posted online, becoming the first Republican to mount a challenge to Trump, who is once again seeking the GOP’s presidential nod. She’s expected to travel to Iowa and New Hampshire, the first two states to hold Republican nominating contests, later this week…
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See Nikki is catching flak about the fact that she had no problem with flying the Confederate flag at the statehouse until the Charleston 9 murders .
That would help her with some….
I doubt that.
For the hardcore bigots , she will always be the bitch that took the flag down.
For those who opposed the flag, she looks like a rank opportunist who waited for some tragedy before doing the right thing.
Trump gave her a backhanded Bronx cheer
Trump Says He’s ‘Glad’ Nikki Haley Is Running
Donald Trump told Fox News that he is “glad” Nikki Haley is running for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination.
Said Trump: “I’m glad she’s running. I want her to follow her heart — even though she made a commitment that she would never run against who she called the greatest president of her lifetime.”
He added: “She should do what she wants to do and not be bound by the fact that she said she would never do it.”