Nikki Haley poised to enter 2024 presidential race

Nikki Haley, the erstwhile US ambassador to the United Nations and two-term politician of South Carolina, is reportedly poised to denote she is seeking the 2024 Republican statesmanlike nomination.

With a run kick-off planned for 15 February successful Charleston, South Carolina, the 51-year-old would go the 2nd large Republican campaigner for the presidency, aft her erstwhile brag Donald Trump launched his bid successful November.

Ms Haley would beryllium the 3rd Indian-American to question a statesmanlike nomination. She follows Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, whose bid successful 2015 ne'er gained important traction, and existent Vice-President Kamala Harris, who sought the 2020 nomination.

During her clip arsenic South Carolina governor, Ms Haley developed a estimation arsenic a business-friendly person who focused connected attracting large companies to the state. She gained nationalist prominence for her effect to the racially motivated wide shooting astatine Charleston's Emanuel AME Church successful 2015, which included a palmy propulsion to region the Confederate emblem from the grounds of the authorities capitol successful Columbia.

Although she endorsed Florida Senator Marco Rubio successful the 2016 Republican statesmanlike contest, Mr Trump offered her a presumption successful his furniture arsenic UN ambassador aft helium won the White House. She served determination for 2 years and, dissimilar galore of Mr Trump's aboriginal appointees, ne'er had a nationalist falling retired with the president.

Ms Haley did, however, criticise Mr Trump's behaviour up to and during the 6 January 2021 onslaught connected the US Capitol by his supporters. The time aft the riot, she said successful a code that "his actions since predetermination time volition beryllium judged harshly by history".

Later that year, arsenic speculation surrounding her governmental aboriginal swirled and Mr Trump regained his lasting and power wrong the party, Ms Haley said she would not tally for president successful 2024 if her erstwhile brag sought the nomination.

She backed distant from that presumption successful the past fewer months, however.

"When you're looking astatine a tally for president, you look astatine 2 things," she said successful a Fox News interrogation past week. "You archetypal look astatine does the existent concern propulsion for caller leadership? The 2nd questions is, americium I that idiosyncratic that could beryllium that caller leader?"

Ms Haley answered some questions with a yes. It suggests a imaginable run strategy that contrasts her comparative younker with some Mr Trump and, if she were to triumph the nomination, Democrat Joe Biden.

According to Mr Trump, Ms Haley called him precocious to pass him of her involvement successful running. He said helium told her she should bash it and helium would invited the competition.

"I said, 'Look, you know, spell by your bosom if you privation to run'," helium said.

The erstwhile president made those remarks soon earlier a run quality connected Saturday successful Ms Haley's location state, which is poised to go a cardinal aboriginal battleground for the Republican nomination.

Most aboriginal polls amusement Mr Trump with a comfy pb successful the authorities whose superior helium won connected his mode to the presidency successful 2016 - an denotation of the uphill conflict the erstwhile ambassador volition have, adjacent connected what should beryllium affable ground.

A caller survey by the polling steadfast Trafalgar Group that included existent and apt candidates has Mr Trump successful archetypal spot with 43% and Ms Haley successful 4th astatine 12%.