This is the only woman candidate for nomination in the 2024 US presidential elections. The Republican Nikki Haley seems to be Donald Trump’s main rival, given that the primaries will begin on January 15th.
Opposed Donald Trump during his presidential term
Former governor of South Carolina, this 51-year-old woman is well known in the Republican field, as she was Donald Trump’s spokeswoman for two years when he was president. But before that, she began her political career in 2004 with her election to the South Carolina Legislature. In 2010, she began campaigning to become governor from the same State, from which she was elected from 2011 to 2017.
In 2017 we are going international. Then it becomes United States Ambassador to the United Nations. In just a few months she has established herself as a “rising star” of American diplomacy, managing to maintain a semblance of dialogue between the UN and Donald Trump’s administration. She remained there for two years and resigned in 2018, marking her opposition to the nomination of conservative Justice Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, accused of sexual assault.
Against homosexual marriage and the reception of refugees
On the private side, Nikki Haley, born Nimrata Nikki Randhawa, is the daughter of Indian Sikh immigrants. She is married to a National Guard officer deployed in Afghanistan, she is the mother of two children.
Since the end of the former president’s term, she has not held back from attacking him, in particular on the theory of fraud that would have led to the election of Joe Biden, something that Donald Trump has never managed to prove. “ It’s time to nominate a Republican who can govern and win national elections », he recently reminded Fox News SHE. She even went so far as to ask “ mandatory mental competence tests for politicians over 75 “, Trump is 77 years old.
But despite her fervent opposition to the former president, Nikki Haley still sticks around conservative. She is opposite to to homosexual marriage, he has never hidden his hostility towards unions, as well as towards the reception of Syrian refugees in South Carolina.
Recently, the candidate has made an incredible rise in the polls, where she rose to 14%. But she remains far behind Donald Trump, who has 64% of voting intentions. He also stated that she would arguein case he wins the primaries.
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