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Nikki Haley, a erstwhile U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and South Carolina governor, is expected to officially denote her 2024 statesmanlike tally connected Feb. 15 successful Charleston, according to 2 South Carolina Republicans acquainted with her plans.
Haley would go the archetypal Republican campaigner to articulation former President Donald Trump successful the Republican statesmanlike primary.
Haley's past hint astatine a 2024 tally came earlier this period during a Fox News interview, successful which she called for "generational change" erstwhile looking astatine the aboriginal of the country.
"I don't deliberation you request to beryllium 80-years-old to spell beryllium a person successful D.C.," the 51-year-old Haley said. "I deliberation we request a young procreation to travel in, measurement up, and truly commencement fixing things."
Nikki Haley, erstwhile ambassador to the United Nations, speaks astatine the Republican Jewish Coalition's yearly gathering connected Nov. 19, 2022, successful Las Vegas, Nevada.
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"When you're looking astatine a tally for president, you look astatine 2 things," Haley added. "You archetypal look at, 'Does the existent concern propulsion for caller leadership?' The 2nd question is, 'Am I that idiosyncratic that could beryllium that caller leader?' So bash I deliberation I could beryllium that leader? Yes, but we are inactive moving done things and we'll fig it out. I've ne'er mislaid a race. I said that then, I inactive accidental that now. I'm not going to suffer now."
In the 2022 midterm predetermination cycle, done her "Stand for America" PAC, Haley campaigned for Republicans up and down the ticket, and took trips to Iowa, New Hampshire and Nevada, each aboriginal statesmanlike superior states. She was besides a closing surrogate connected the way for Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, and Senate candidates Dr. Mehmet Oz successful Pennsylvania and Herschel Walker successful Georgia.
Haley has consistently polled 3rd oregon 4th successful aboriginal 2024 GOP superior surveys. In a Trafalgar Group canvass successful precocious January of South Carolina superior voters, Haley placed fourth, and got 11.6% of the ballot successful a tract that included Trump, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott, erstwhile Vice President Mike Pence and erstwhile Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
Scott, different imaginable 2024 contender from the Palmetto State, is traveling to Iowa for the Polk County Republican party's annual Lincoln Dinner successful precocious February.
"Nikki Haley stepped from the governor's bureau to the planetary signifier astatine the United Nations, rounding retired credentials that would hole her for a run similar this. It's similar a countdown astatine NASA, T-minus 2 weeks and counting," said Dave Wilson, president of the Christian nonprofit Palmetto Family Council.
Haley notched 1 symbolic triumph against Trump past twelvemonth successful the superior for South Carolina's 1st Congressional District, erstwhile Haley backed Rep. Nancy Mace. Mace defeated Trump's endorsed candidate, erstwhile Rep. Katie Arrington, by astir 9 points.
Trump told reporters traveling with him Saturday to South Carolina for a run halt that Haley had reached retired to her ex-boss to pass him that she was considering moving for the White House.
"She called maine and said she'd similar to see it, and I said, 'You should bash it,'" Trump recounted. "I talked to her for a small while. I said, 'Look, you know, spell by your bosom if you privation to run.'"
Haley, a South Carolina autochthonal who was the archetypal pistillate and Indian-American politician successful authorities history, told the Associated Press successful April 2021 that she would not situation Trump if helium decided to tally again. Trump nominated Haley for the U.N. ambassadorship aft his triumph successful 2016.
"I would not tally if President Trump ran, and I would speech to him astir it," Haley said astatine the time.
Since then, she has suggested, repeatedly, that she's earnestly considering a run. The erstwhile South Carolina politician told Fox News that her comments astir not moving against Trump were made earlier immoderate perceived flaws of President Biden's administration, specified arsenic the withdrawal successful Afghanistan and the melodramatic emergence successful inflation.
"When I look astatine that, I look astatine the information [that] if I'm this passionate and I'm this determined, wherefore not me?" Haley told Fox News.
Wilson said "it's nary surprise" Haley is the archetypal Republican retired of the gross to situation Trump successful a primary.
"She's the benignant of idiosyncratic who doesn't ever look to backmost distant from a challenge," helium told CBS News.
Aaron Navarro is an subordinate shaper for the governmental portion astatine CBS News, focusing connected House and gubernatorial campaigns arsenic good arsenic the census and redistricting.
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