Nikki Haley

What Kind of Republican Is Nikki Haley? The most important aspect of the presidential nomination process is how the party uses it to redefine itself.

The question isn’t so much whether she can win, but whether and how her campaign can change the party. 15](https://www.postandcourier.com/politics/its-official-nikki-haley-running-for-president-formal-announcement-feb-15/article_761b0b96-8c42-11ed-afdd-d330c30e8be3.html), joining her former boss as an official candidate. There are now two Republicans running for president: Nikki Haley, the former governor of South Carolina and ambassador to the UN under President Donald Trump, will make her

Nikki Haley was barely known outside her native South Carolina before Donald Trump tapped her as ambassador to the United Nations back in 2017.

Former US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley “has all the experience” to run for the 2024 presidential election as a Republican candidate, says The ...

"Nikki has to follow her heart, not her honor," Trump wrote alongside the footage. Haley will launch her campaign on Feb 15, reports claim.

If she does, it would make her the first Republican to declare a challenge to the former President. "Nikki has to follow her heart, not her honor. "If he decides that he's going to run would that preclude any sort of run that you would possibly make yourself?"

There are now two Republicans running for president: Nikki Haley, the former governor of South Carolina and ambassador to the UN under President Donald ...

And in the last half century or so, as the presidency has become more partisan, it has become a reflection of the party’s priorities far more than the president’s personality.(2) And in 2020, the nomination was fought among mainstream and more extreme liberals. If she does, it will be a good test of how that might work — and whether it appeals to party actors and Republican voters. And remember: While the media focus on which candidate will win, the most important aspect of the nomination process is how the party uses it to redefine itself. The question isn’t so much whether she can win, but whether and how her campaign can change the party. That said, when it comes to party support, Haley is not off to a good start.

Trump will not commit to supporting the 2024 GOP nominee. Trump told Nikki Haley she should run for president if she wanted to, but called her "overly ...

Former President Trump on Wednesday taunted Nikki Haley, his former ambassador to the United Nations, about an anticipated announcement that she will be ...

[DeSantis hit back, saying](https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/3837615-desantis-responds-to-trump-attacks-by-pointing-to-his-reelection/), “If you take a crisis situation like COVID, the good thing about it is when you’re an elected executive, you have to make all kinds of decisions. In a post on his Truth Social platform, he took one of his first jabs at her since the reporting of her anticipated 2024 White House campaign. [See all Hill.TV](https://thehill.com/hilltv) [See all Video](https://thehill.com/video) [House](https://thehill.com/homenews/house/) [Administration](https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/) [Campaign](https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/) [House](https://thehill.com/homenews/house/) [See All](https://thehill.com) Trump told The Associated Press in a recent interview that if the Florida governor ran “it would be a great act of disloyalty” and claimed over the weekend that DeSantis was “trying to rewrite history” over how he handled the COVID-19 pandemic. [2024 presidential race](https://thehill.com/social-tags/2024-presidential-race/) [2024 Republican primary](https://thehill.com/social-tags/2024-republican-primary/) [Nikki Haley](https://thehill.com/people/nikki-haley/) [Nikki Haley](https://thehill.com/social-tags/nikki-haley/) [Ron DeSantis](https://thehill.com/people/ron-desantis/) [Trump](https://thehill.com/people/trump/) [Trump campaign](https://thehill.com/social-tags/trump-campaign/) [Truth Social](https://thehill.com/social-tags/truth-social/) [Campaign](https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/) [Campaign](https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/) [Campaign](https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/) [Campaign](https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/) [See All](https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/) The development comes as Trump has started ramping up his rhetoric toward Florida Gov.

Nikki Haley was always an understudy to the GOP's bigger plan to control congressional legislation and foreign policy. VP Pence, who brought significant amounts ...

She said on an occasion in 2021, that she would not run if Trump ran in 2024, but broke with her statement when she called Trump and told him that she was going to run for Office, noting again on Fox News that, “It is time for a new generation. And among her best moments was also the response to President Obama’s last State of the Union Address, where she aimed at the Democrats while also attempting to steer away from then-Candidate Trump, who seemed noisy at the time. Nikki Haley was always an understudy to the GOP’s bigger plan to control congressional legislation and foreign policy. Haley-a former South Carolina Governor, and Ambassador to the United Nations-was an unorthodox figure in the party. VP Pence, who brought significant amounts of the evangelical vote to Trump, is now also considering a run for office, going on a book tour that is anything but an announcement. And while the announcement comes after a major loss for the GOP in November’s Mid-Term election, it stands to show just how falsely optimistic the Trump Campaign is about next November.

Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley will be announcing later this month that she'll be running for the Republican nomination for president.

Ron DeSantis](https://reason.com/2023/01/31/desantis-revokes-licenses-from-businesses-that-fail-to-use-flawed-e-verify-system/), with whom she may compete in the race for the Republican nomination. But she [opposes letting trans women compete in sports alongside other women](https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/08/nikki-haley-provides-peek-just-transphobic-gops-presidential-primary-will/) and has complained about "woke culture" weakening the military in some vague fashion. She, [like DeSantis](https://reason.com/2023/01/25/floridas-rejection-of-an-ap-african-american-studies-course-is-a-rejection-of-school-choice/), is stumbling into the conservative populist contradiction of refusing to consider that some parents support teaching their children subjects Haley doesn't approve of. (Reason's Eric Boehm has been [calling out the problems with this plan](https://reason.com/2022/01/28/massive-subsidies-wont-solve-the-semiconductor-supply-chain-crisis/) for some time.) Haley called for more sanctions against Russia in 2018, but Trump [resisted](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/08/02/trump-signs-bill-imposing-new-sanctions-on-russia-but-issues-a-statement-with-concerns/) both her and Congress until reluctantly relenting. and NATO assistance](https://www.newsweek.com/us-getting-ukraine-finish-line-sets-tone-china-nikki-haley-1748474) in arming Ukraine against Russia and also wants the U.S. [notably disagreed](https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/17/world/europe/trump-nikki-haley-russia-sanctions.html) with how to deal with Russia's aggressive behavior when Trump was in office. [created an immigration enforcement unit](https://www.politico.com/story/2011/06/haley-oks-sc-immigration-cops-057874) and required police to check the citizenship of anybody they stopped to make sure they were in the country legally. Her profile's [pinned tweet](https://twitter.com/NikkiHaley/status/1616627855366017026) right now is of a subsequent appearance on Sean Hannity's show during which she not-very-subtly hinted at a run. That's a bad deal for the American people." Haley has been making the rounds on Fox News and planting seeds for her run, telling Bret Baier in January, "I think it's time for new, generational change. ambassador to the United Nations but stepped down in 2018.

The former UN ambassador who said she wouldn't run against Trump is about to run against Trump.

She’s a shapeshifter willing to be whatever the political moment demands, even when that means siding with or staying silent about a would-be authoritarian. That might be Haley’s rallying point to Trump-weary Republicans, promoting herself as the party’s best hope to keep a Trump presidency from happening again. And she has to divine whether the path to winning the 2024 Republican presidential nomination means running as a moderate (whatever that means in the GOP these days) or embracing the extremism that controls the modern Republican mainstream. “He went down a path he shouldn’t have, and we shouldn’t have followed him, and we shouldn’t have listened to him. Yes, I want to see a woman as America’s president. But when Haley left the Trump White House, it was her ambitions that were completely intact. But she also didn’t denounce his efforts to overturn the democratic will of more than 81 million Americans. [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]). Whether playing to treasonous-flag-loving constituents or a rogue president, she has navigated her political life by tightrope-walking between public loyalty and private ambition. “We need to acknowledge he let us down,” Haley said. I hope to see a woman elected president in my lifetime. Now, as she prepares to launch her presidential candidacy, she must negotiate a political minefield more perilous than any she has faced before.