A veteran of the Trump administration, Haley begins as an underdog within the GOP race. If profitable, she would develop into the primary lady and first Asian American to steer the Republican ticket. She beforehand made historical past because the nation’s first feminine Asian American governor and the primary Indian American to serve within the Cupboard.

Haley has shifted her posture towards Trump over time. She criticized him when he first ran in 2016, earlier than becoming a member of his administration the subsequent yr and later vowing to not run towards him in 2024. In current months, she has disavowed the pledge as she moved towards a deliberate announcement speech right here in Charleston tomorrow.

Haley will proceed her early state journey this week, holding a sequence of city halls in New Hampshire and Iowa hoping to construct a following amid polls displaying her lagging nicely behind Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a possible candidate.

Her announcement comes months after the doorway of Trump, who introduced his third White Home bid in November. The marketing campaign has progressed slowly, with different Republicans, together with governors, senators and former Trump officers, signaling an curiosity within the contest and making strikes towards leaping in. However most are taking their time, decided to not rush.

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Haley’s entrance provides to the competitors a Republican from a key early main state that Trump has indicated is a precedence for his marketing campaign. He just lately stumped in Columbia, S.C. — a part of his first day on the path since his announcement final yr. Trump handily received South Carolina in 2016, ending 10 proportion factors above the second-place finisher, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), who was endorsed by Haley.

One of many youngest Republicans who has signaled an curiosity operating in 2024, Haley, 51, just lately reshared an article about an interview from final yr wherein she stated “we significantly have to have a dialog that in case you’re gonna have anybody above a sure age able of energy — whether or not it’s the Home, whether or not it’s the Senate, whether or not it’s vp, whether or not it’s president — you need to have some form of cognitive take a look at.” Biden is 80, and Trump is 76.

With regards to her previous relationship with the previous president, Haley has been each an ally and an opponent. “I might not run if President Trump ran, and I might speak to him about it,” Haley stated in 2021, pledging to assist the forty fifth president.

However when requested about that remark in a January interview with Fox Information, Haley signaled that she had modified course. “It’s greater than one individual. And once you’re the way forward for America, I feel it’s time for brand spanking new generational change,” she stated.

Talking of Haley in an interview earlier this month with conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt, Trump stated, “She’s a really bold individual. She simply couldn’t keep in a seat. I stated, ‘You understand what, Nikki, if you wish to run, you go forward and run.’”

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Haley ardently opposed Trump in 2016, when she initially backed Rubio and later supported Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.). On the time, she warned towards following “the siren name of the angriest voices,” seen as a reference to Trump’s marketing campaign. Haley supplied lukewarm assist for Trump within the basic election, saying she was “not a fan.”

As governor, Haley drew nationwide consideration for calling for the elimination of the Accomplice flag from the statehouse grounds after a white supremacist killed 9 Black parishioners at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in June 2015.

Throughout her tenure, she additionally appointed Sen. Tim Scott to the Senate. Scott — a doable 2024 candidate himself holding an occasion in Charleston on Thursday and in Iowa subsequent week — is the primary Black Senator from South Carolina and the one Black Republican at present serving within the chamber.

Since leaving her publish on the United Nations, Haley began a PAC and launched a memoir. The Stand for America PAC was energetic with endorsements within the midterm elections, and Haley was a frequent presence on the marketing campaign path, stumping for candidates throughout the nation — together with pro-Trump Republicans who questioned or denied the outcomes of the 2020 election — and stopping in early nominating states.

After serving as governor of South Carolina from 2011 till 2017, Haley was because the ambassador to the United Nations from January of that yr till December 2018. She grew the affect of the place in her first yr within the function.

Haley has indicated her pitch will rely in giant measure on her international coverage expertise within the publish. A video teasing her Charleston announcement featured former U.N. Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick, who served below then-President ReaganThe narrator of the video quotes poet Charles Mackay: “He who has mingled within the fray of obligation that the courageous endure will need to have made foes. When you’ve got none, small is the work that you’ve got accomplished … you’ve been a coward within the struggle.”

As a member of the administration, Haley stored a distance from a few of Trump’s private and political scandals. But she sometimes broke from him, and supported nearly all of his international coverage agenda, together with withdrawing the US from the Iran nuclear deal, the Paris local weather accords and the U.N. Human Rights Council, in addition to transferring the U.S. Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem.

Haley, who had no earlier formal diplomatic expertise, was confirmed to the publish by an amazing 96-to-4 margin within the U.S. Senate. Throughout her affirmation listening to, she voiced robust assist for NATO and condemned the concept of a ban on Muslims coming into the nation, which Trump as soon as proposed. She additionally defended Trump’s reward of Vladimir Putin however took a stronger place towards Russia than the previous president.

When she formally resigned from the publish — seated subsequent to Trump within the Oval Workplace — Haley stated that she wouldn’t run for president in 2020, and that she would as an alternative marketing campaign for him.

After the assault on the U.S. Capitol by a pro-Trump mob on Jan. 6, 2021, Haley stated that Trump could be “judged harshly by historical past” and that he was “badly unsuitable together with his phrases” on the day of the revolt.

“President Trump has not at all times chosen the best phrases. He was unsuitable together with his phrases in Charlottesville, and I advised him so on the time,” she stated in the identical remarks to the Republican Nationwide Committee winter assembly on the day after Jan. 6, referring to Trump’s response to violence at a white-supremacist rally in Charlottesville in 2017.

Her posture has caught Trump’s consideration.

“Properly, each time she criticizes me, she uncriticizes me about quarter-hour later,” Trump advised Vainness Honest in a narrative printed in 2021. “I suppose she will get the bottom.”

In an interview with Politico printed final February, Haley stated of Trump, “I’m so disenchanted in the truth that [despite] the loyalty and friendship he had with Mike Pence, that he would try this to him. Like, I’m disgusted by it.”

The daughter of Indian immigrants, Haley was born right into a Sikh household in Bamberg, S.C., and often speaks about her dad and mom and background.

“I’m the proud daughter of Indian immigrants. They got here to America and settled in a small southern city. My father wore a turban. My mom wore a sari. I used to be a Brown lady in a Black and White world. We confronted discrimination and hardship, however my dad and mom by no means gave into grievance and hate,” she stated in her handle to the Republican Nationwide Conference in 2020.

All through her time within the nationwide highlight, Haley has advocated for the Republican Get together to do extra to succeed in folks of coloration. After her election in 2010, Haley grew to become the youngest governor within the nation.

Earlier than she was elected governor, Haley served within the South Carolina Home of Representatives, defeating an incumbent who had served for many years within the GOP main to win the seat. She beforehand labored as an accountant, together with for her household’s clothes enterprise.