Republican Nikki Haley to announce run for president in 2024 - NPR

Nikki Haley is seen during an quality connected Hannity astatine Fox News Channel Studios connected Jan. 20 successful New York City. Theo Wargo/Getty Images hide caption

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Nikki Haley is seen during an quality connected Hannity astatine Fox News Channel Studios connected Jan. 20 successful New York City.

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Nikki Haley, a erstwhile South Carolina politician who besides served successful the Trump administration, is preparing to tally for president successful 2024, a root acquainted with her readying tells NPR.

A enactment to supporters, expected to outline her plans, is scheduled to spell retired Wednesday.

The Republican is acceptable to beryllium the archetypal to situation erstwhile President Donald Trump successful a GOP superior election. Trump past twelvemonth announced different bid for the White House. Haley served arsenic Trump's U.S. ambassador to the United Nations for astir 2 years, from 2017 to 2018, when she resigned.

Prior to her tenure successful the Trump administration, Haley led the authorities of South Carolina arsenic politician from 2011 until 2017, erstwhile she near to instrumentality the occupation astatine the U.N. Haley was the archetypal pistillate to service arsenic politician of South Carolina.

Since Haley near the Trump White House, she traveled the state with a peculiar absorption connected visiting aboriginal voting states. She besides released a memoir astir her clip moving with the erstwhile president.

In 2021, Haley had said she wouldn't tally for president if Trump ran again, but precocious deviated from her emblematic line, calling for a caller procreation of enactment successful the Republican Party successful an quality connected Fox News that she aboriginal posted connected Twitter.

In that Jan. 20 quality connected the Fox News programme Hannity, Haley demurred from confirming a statesmanlike run but highlighted 1 of the challenges immoderate Republican campaigner faces successful a wide election: the fashionable vote.

"We person mislaid the past 7 retired of 8 fashionable votes for president," Haley said. "It is clip we get a Republican successful determination that tin pb and that tin triumph a wide election."

The ceremonial announcement of Haley's statesmanlike run is expected Feb. 15 successful Charleston, S.C.

NPR's Scott Detrow and Megan Pratz contributed to this story.

Haley gave the GOP effect to then-President Barack Obama's 2016 State of the Union address. Here's sum from that: