Nikki Haley Announces 2024 US Presidential Bid

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.