Nikki Haley Declares Her Candidacy For The Presidency

Nikki Haley (ex-UN ambassador, one-time governor in South Carolina) announced Tuesday that her candidacy for the Republican nomination in 2024.

Haley was 38 when she was elected to the South Carolina House of Representatives. She served three terms. She was reelected and served until 2017, when Donald Trump appointed her United States Ambassador to United Nations.

“Some look at our past as evidence that America’s founding principles are bad; they say the promise of freedom is just made-up,” Haley stated this in a Twitter video announcement. “Some think our ideas are not just wrong, but racist and evil. Nothing could be further from the truth.”

She then contrasted America’s freedom with the despotic actions of authoritarian regimes across the world.

“I have seen evil; in China they commit genocide; in Iran, they murder their own people for challenging the government,” She continued. “And when a woman tells you about watching soldiers turn her baby into a fire, it puts things into perspective. Even on our worst day, we are blessed to live in America.”

Haley’s take-no-prisoners attitude at the UN earned her praise among conservatives. She called Anti-Semitic UNESCO “cesspool” And “among the most corrupt and politically biased UN agencies.” When the U.N. condemned the U.S. embargo against Cuba, she fiercely supported it. “The United States will continue to stand with the Cuban people until their rights and their freedoms are restored. Period. We won’t back down.”

Her defense of Israel against its critics was repeated over and over again, while she fiercely opposed the despotic Iranian regime.

Haley will be speaking at the American Enterprise Institute annual dinner on October 19, 2019. criticized colleagues of hers in the Trump administration “who believed that the best thing to do for America was to undermine and obstruct the president.” asserting, “The president was the choice of the people, in accordance with our founding charter. No policy disagreement with him, no matter how heartfelt, justifies undermining the lawful authority that is vested in his office by the Constitution.”

Haley then vowed to take on the woke left and defend American values.

As the screen showed President Biden, Vice-President Kamala Harris, Senator Bernie Sanders (D-VT) and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, she asserted, “Some people look at America and see vulnerability. The socialist Left sees an opportunity to rewrite history. China and Russia are on the march; they all think we can be bullied, kicked around. You should know this about me: I don’t put up with bullies, and when you kick back, it hurts them more if you’re wearing heels.”

Haley is the second major candidate to announce a run for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination. Trump launched his campaign in November 2022, while other potential candidates include Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.

Haley’s husband, Michael, served in Afghanistan as an officer in the South Carolina National Guard, and the couple have two children together.

Get excited! Time for a new generation.

Let’s do this! 👊 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/BD5k4WY1CP

— Nikki Haley (@NikkiHaley) February 14, 2023