Ms Haley is positioning herself as a changemaker who can reinvigorate a party and country she says have lost their way in recent years.
Ms Haley averages under four per cent in 2024 primary opinion polls, according to Real Clear Politics, trailing far behind Mr Trump at 48 per cent.Former US ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley announced on Tuesday she is running for president, becoming the first high-profile candidate to challenge Donald Trump — her onetime boss — for the Republican nomination.
Ms Haley is positioning herself as a changemaker who can reinvigorate a party and country she says have lost their way in recent years, and she played up her personal background as part of her appeal to unite a nation strained by racial tensions. Ms Haley, who would be the country's first female president if elected, is unlikely to be the last Republican to throw their hat in the ring.
"But that shouldn't come as a surprise. The Washington establishment has failed us over and over and over again," she said.At this point in the 2020 election cycle, 10 Democrats had launched campaigns or exploratory committees, but Mr Trump and now Ms Haley are the only Republicans to do so officially this time around.
She endorsed senators Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz during the 2016 Republican presidential primary, and slammed Mr Trump as "everything a governor doesn't want in a president."
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