On Wednesday, Nikki Haley formally announced her campaign for the White House in 2024, pitching herself as a part of a “new generation” of Republican leaders who are capable of winning elections.
Haley is now the first Indian American woman to run for president in the Republican Party. The proud daughter of Indian immigrants, Haley introduced herself as the former governor of South Carolina and US ambassador to the UN as she made her appeal for a new direction for the Republican party.
Haley noted her parents who were in the audience and said, “My parents left India in search of a better life. They found it in Bamberg, South Carolina, with a population of 2,500. Our little town came to love us … but it wasn’t always easy. We were the only Indian family. Nobody knew who we were, what we were, or why we were there. But my parents knew. And every day, they reminded my brothers and my sister that even on our worst day, we are blessed to live in America,” Haley added.
In the early 1960s, Haley’s parents moved to America from Amritsar after leaving their hometown of rural Punjab. Haley often discusses her Indian heritage, and on Tuesday, she drew attention to it in a video in which she announced her candidature.
“I was the proud daughter of Indian immigrants. Not black, not white. I was different,” she says in the video. “But my mom would always say, ‘Your job is not to focus on the differences, but the similarities.’”
“I know America is better than all the division and distractions that we have today,” Haley told several hundred supporters in Charleston, South Carolina. “And I’m confident that the American people agree. We’re ready to move past the stale ideas and faded names of the past, and we are more than ready for a new generation to lead us into the future.”
Haley declined from criticising former President Donald Trump directly and chose to target President Joe Biden and Washington’s elite leaders from both parties. Haley demanded “mandated mental fitness testing” for legislators over 75 in a not-so-subtle shot at both Trump and Biden. Biden is 80, while Trump is 76.
She informed the audience, “America is not past our prime; it’s just that our politicians are past theirs.”
Trump, her former boss, announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination last November, and Haley is currently the lone GOP challenger. She started working for the Trump administration in January 2017 and left her position as US ambassador to the UN at the end of 2018.
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