Nikki Haley
| Nikki Haley | |||
|---|---|---|---|
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| Former United States Ambassador to The United Nations From: January 25, 2017 – December 31, 2018 | |||
| President | Donald Trump | ||
| Predecessor | Samantha Power | ||
| Successor | Kelly Craft | ||
| Former Governor of South Carolina From: January 12, 2011 – January 24, 2017 | |||
| Lieutenant | Ken Ard Glenn F. McConnell Yancey McGill Henry McMaster | ||
| Predecessor | Mark Sanford | ||
| Successor | Henry McMaster | ||
| Former State Representative from South Carolina's 87th District From: January 11, 2005 – January 11, 2011 | |||
| Predecessor | Larry Koon | ||
| Successor | Todd Atwater | ||
| Information | |||
| Party | Republican | ||
| Spouse(s) | Michael Haley | ||
| Religion | United Methodist | ||
Nimrata Randhawa "Nikki" Haley, (born January 20, 1972) is an American politician and diplomat. Haley served as the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations for the Trump Administration, from 2017–18. She served as the Republican Governor of South Carolina from 2011–17, and was the first female governor of the state. Previously, from 2004–10, she served as a member of the South Carolina House of Representatives.
On February 14, 2023, Nikki Haley officially joined the Never-Trumpers by announcing an absurd bid for president, apparently timed to be just before a release by partisan Democrats of a "special purpose grand jury" opinion against Trump supporters in Fulton County (Atlanta), Georgia. One of her first campaign positions is her vague desire to change the retirement age, without saying how and to what.[1]
Haley turned against Trump in an extensive interview she gave in early 2021 to Politico, insisting like a liberal that Trump somehow "let us down."[2] After Leftists exploited rampant ballot harvesting, judicial activism to change state laws about voting, and drop-box dumping of filled-in ballots in 2020 to elect a mentally incompetent man as president, Nikki Haley declared without any investigation that the election was fair and that Trump was wrong to object.
Haley subsequently flip-flopped as to whether she would run against Trump in 2024, saying later in 2021 that she would not, and then in 2023 announcing her presidential candidacy against Trump. Haley did campaign some for conservative Herschel Walker in the adjacent Georgia for U.S. Senate in the 2022 midterm elections.
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Early Career
Haley was educated at Clemson University, and worked for the waste management & recycling company, FCR Corporation. She also worked as bookkeeper and chief financial officer of her family's clothing business, Exotica International. Other organizations she worked for include the Orangeburg County Chamber of Commerce, the Lexington Chamber of Commerce, the National Association of Women Business Owners, the Lexington Medical Foundation, Lexington County Sheriff's Foundation, West Metro Republican Women, the National Association of Women Business Owners, and the 2006 Friends of Scouting Leadership Division campaign.
South Carolina House of Representatives
Haley was first elected to represent the 87th District of Lexington County in 2004. As a virtual unknown, she defeated Larry Koon, the longest serving state legislator, in a Republican primary with 55% of the vote. Haley campaigned on low taxes and education reform. She won the general election unopposed, and was re-elected in 2006, also unopposed. In 2008, Haley won a third term against Democrat opponent Edgar Gomez with 83 percent of the vote, the highest percentage earned by any lawmaker facing a contested South Carolina election that year.
South Carolina Governor
Haley announced her candidacy for South Carolina governor on May 14th, 2009. During her 2010 campaign for governor, Haley was endorsed by then-former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney and then-First Lady of South Carolina, Jenny Sanford. She was also endorsed by former Alaska governor Sarah Palin. Haley later turned on Palin after her victory, saying she would not return the favor by endorsing Palin in a potential 2012 presidential campaign[3]. She defeated Democratic candidate Vincent Sheheen with 51% of the vote.
United Nations Ambassador
As UN ambassador, Haley nominated gubernatorial predecessor David Beasley as the executive director of the World Food Programme. Beasley assumed the WFP position in April 2017.[4]
In October 2018, Haley announced her resignation from the Trump Administration[5][6][7]. During the Republican National Convention in 2020, she expressed interest in rejoining the Trump administration assuming he would win re-election[8], but then turned against Trump after the 2020 election. She joined liberals in unfairly criticizing Trump's exercise of his First Amendment free speech rights, and his strong stance against electoral fraud[9]. In an interview published by Politico on February 12, 2021, Haley turned completely against Trump, speaking about him in terms of untrue "bad that he did" and falsely claiming that "he’s fallen so far."[10]
Political positions
Despite claiming to be conservative, Haley is an establishment neocon who holds many liberal positions, and is widely regarded as a member of Conservative Inc.
As South Carolina governor, she bowed to liberal pressure and political correctness in removing the Confederate flag from the state capitol flagpole, despite having previously voiced defense for the flag.
She was against Donald Trump for most of his 2016 presidential campaign, instead supporting establishment-favored candidates Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz. When Trump won the Republican nomination in a landslide, she said that she would vote for him, but was still "not a fan."[11] She also spread the divisive lie that Trump "chooses not to disavow the KKK", despite him having done so many times. Haley tepidly supported Trump as an employee of his administration, but turned against him after the fraudulent 2020 election.
The child of immigrants, Haley supports legal immigration.[12][13]
References
- ↑ https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/09/politics/nikki-haley-retirement-age-social-security-medicare/index.html
- ↑ https://www.politico.com/interactives/2021/magazine-nikki-haleys-choice/?nname=playbook&nid=0000014f-1646-d88f-a1cf-5f46b7bd0000&nrid=0000014e-f109-dd93-ad7f-f90dc3060000&nlid=630318
- ↑ https://www.politico.com/blogs/politico-now/2011/02/nikki-haley-i-dont-owe-palin-an-endorsement-in-2012-033763
- ↑ Schuyler Kropf (February 28, 2017). Nikki Haley nominates former South Carolina Gov. David Beasley for U.N. food post. The Charleston Post and Courier. Retrieved on October 5, 2021.
- ↑ Shaw, Adam (October 9, 2018). Nikki Haley resigns as UN ambassador, stays mum on next move. Fox News. Retrieved October 9, 2018.
- ↑ Caplan, Joshua (October 9, 2018). President Trump: Nikki Haley Leaving UN Post at Year’s end. Breitbart News. Retrieved October 9, 2018.
- ↑ Murphy, James (October 9, 2018). Nikki Haley Resigns as Ambassador to the UN. The New American. Retrieved October 9, 2018.
- ↑ Fordham, Evie (August 25, 2020). Nikki Haley after RNC speech says she is open to rejoining Trump administration. Fox News. Retrieved August 25, 2020.
- ↑ In calling out Trump, Nikki Haley warns of a more sinister threat. The Hill.
- ↑ Nikki Haley’s Time for Choosing. Politico. Retrieved February 13, 2021.
- ↑ Mary Bowerman, to know about Trump's U.N. pick: S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley, USA Today, Nov 23, 2016
- ↑ Binder, John (July 24, 2018). Nikki Haley Pushes Multiculturalism: ‘Fabric of America’ Is ‘Multiple Cultures, Multiple Populations’. Breitbart News. Retrieved July 24, 2018.
- ↑ Munro, Neil (May 9, 2019). Nikki Haley: Immigration ‘Makes Us Great’. Breitbart News. Retrieved May 9, 2019.
