by Madeleine Hubbard
Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley announced her 2024 presidential campaign on Tuesday in a video.
She is now the second Republican to seek the party’s nomination after former President Donald Trump.
Haley, a former United Nations Ambassador under Trump, opened her campaign video by reflecting on her childhood.
“I was the proud daughter of Indian immigrants. Not black, not white, I was different. But my mom would always say your job is not to look at the differences but the similarities,” she said.
“Republicans have lost the popular vote in seven out of the last eight presidential elections. That has to change,” Hayley said in the video. “It’s time for a new generation of leadership.”
Calling out America’s biggest foreign threats, Hayley also said China is committing a “genocide” and Iran is “murder[ing] their own people for challenging the government” through protests.
“China and Russia are on the march. They all think we can be bullied, kicked around. You should know this about me. I don’t put up with bullies. And when you kick back, it hurts them more if you’re wearing heels,” she said.
Talking about domestic policy, Hayley pledged to be fiscally responsible and secure the border.
Hayley has teased running for the GOP nomination for months, using her signature line that she’s “never lost an election.”
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Madeleine Hubbard joined Just the News as a fast file reporter after working as an editor at Breitbart News. Hubbard previously served as the special assistant to the Assistant Secretary of Public Affairs at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Image “Nikki Haley” by Nikki Haley.
