Nikki Haley is the first Republican to challenge Trump for the 2024 election

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former president of the united states donald trump You are no longer alone in the race try to get the nomination Republican presidential candidate for 2024. Three months after the former president launched his campaign, Nikki Haley, the former governor of South Carolina and Trump’s ambassador to the United Nations for two years, made the official statement this Tuesday. candidacy Together video assures that “it is” it’s time for a new generation of leadership”. Haley 51 years old years; Trump, 76 and Democratic President Joe Biden, who is expected to announce his search for re-election, although he has yet to officially announce it, turns 80.

Haley, who will be speaking at her first campaign event in Charleston this Wednesday, announced her own move. To leave His statement in 2021, To ensure If Trump had been a candidate, he would not have been a candidate. And so far, she hasn’t been criticized by the former president, who hasn’t given Haley one of her traditional pejorative nicknames. Trump did not attack him when he decided to leave the Administration, and when he told him he was considering it, he assured him that he encouraged him to run; this is something that some political observers both continue to respect and interpret as such. nomination he doesn’t care much like others, notably Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, are expected.

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Haley’s ad Republicans lost the popular vote In seven of the last eight presidential elections, he gives some clues as to the line he plans to follow in his candidacy. In addition to including criticisms of Biden and against the establishment About Washington,” socialist left and the video shows figures representing the progressive wing of the Democratic Party, such as Senator Bernie Sanders and Congressman. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

The candidate also gets directly involved. culture wars Republicans, especially in matters race and gender and before they thinkI woke up‘. “We are lucky to live in America even on our worst day,” Haley says in the video, referring to the atrocities in China or Iran on the contrary.

Daughter of immigrants from IndiaHaley, the first woman to serve in the South Carolina Government and also the first woman of non-Caucasian descent. representation that there is no such thing as “systemic racism” In the US and on video, she recalls a moment when she made up her mind after the 2015 massacre at a black church in the state by a white supremacist. raise the racist confederate flag He chose to “reject fear and return to God and the values ​​that have made the United States the freest and greatest country in the world,” he says in state congress.

Taking advantage of his foreign policy experience thanks to his position at the UN, he includes reproaches against the progress of Russia and China in his criticisms of the Biden Administration and promises to oppose them. “I can not stand”bullies‘. AND it hurts more if you wear heels when you hit back‘ he assures.

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It is not yet clear how Haley’s candidacy will follow, which may start to progress in the coming days with the announcement of the candidacy. Donationdevelop their low survey numbers and attract attention primary voters, especially in South Carolina. A state that Trump cares about, has already visited, and that the votes could be further divided if the Republican were on the ground. Black Senator Rick Scott.

The nomination will also test the relationship with Trump. After the attack on the Capitol, Haley critical assuring the former president that this will happen”brutally judged by history“and questioning how he criticized Vice President Mike Pence, especially in the pre-attack demonstration. But later on, Haley Opposition to being subjected to ‘claim’ for sedition, for his second impeachment trial, and for being acquitted by Republicans like the first.

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