Former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley is challenging her one-time boss Donald Trump for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination
"I'm Nikki Haley and I'm running for president," Ms Trump's former United Nations ambassador said in the video, first reported by Axios.— Nikki Haley February 14, 2023 The daughter of two Indian immigrants, Nimrata"Nikki" Randhawa was raised in Bamberg, South Carolina as a Sikh, but now identifies as Christian. She is married to a South Carolina National Guard officer and has two children.
Ms Haley has gained a reputation in the Republican Party as a solid conservative who has the ability to address issues of gender and race in a more credible fashion than many of her peers. She has also pitched herself as a stalwart defender of US interests abroad, having served as US ambassador to the United Nations under Mr Trump from 2017 to 2018.
During that time, the United States pulled out of the Iran nuclear deal, which was inked under Barack Obama and was highly unpopular among Republicans.
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