Former US ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, announced on Tuesday that she is a candidate for the US presidential election in 2024. The 51-year-old Republican is taking on Donald Trump and is proposing a ‘new generation’ of leadership in Washington. .
“I’m Nikki Haley and I’m running for president,” the former South Carolina governor said in a video message shared on the social network Twitter.
“It is time for a new generation to lead — to rediscover fiscal responsibility, protect our border and strengthen our country, pride and purpose,” said former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley, daughter of Indian immigrants .
Get excited! Time for a new generation.
Let’s do this! pic.twitter.com/BD5k4WY1CP
Nikki Haley (@NikkiHaley) February 14, 2023
In the video shot in Bamberg, the town where she was born in South Carolina, Nikky Haley positions herself as an alternative to former President Donald Trump, age 76.
She sees herself as an agent of change who can revive a party and a country that she feels has lost its way in recent years. In the video, Haley highlights her past as a way to unite a nation gripped by racial tension.
She introduces herself as a “proud daughter of Indian immigrants”. “Neither black nor white. I was different,” she said. “My mom used to say, ‘It’s your job not to focus on the differences, but on the similarities,'” he stressed.
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Source: DN
