Nikki Haley Announces 2024 US Presidential Bid

Nikki Haley Announces 2024 US Presidential Bid

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Category : International Published on: February 16 2023

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  • Indian-American and Republican Party leader Nikki Haley has announced her intention to run for the US presidency in 2024.
  • Haley served as US ambassador to the United Nations under Trump.
  • She is the daughter of Indian immigrants, Haley was born in Bamberg, South Carolina, and would go on to become the state's first female governor and the first Indian-American to lead the state.
  • If she wins the Republican presidential nomination in 2024, she would make history again as the first woman and first Asian-American at the top of the GOP ticket.
  • She delivered the Republican response to then-President Barack Obama's State of the Union address in 2016.
  • Following her two terms in the governor's mansion, she was selected by Trump as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, serving in the role from January 2017 to December 2018. 
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