Former U.N. Ambassador and former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley speaks throughout an occasion sponsored by Turning Level USA at Clemson College on Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2022, in Clemson, S.C. Haley is considered as a potential Republican presidential candidate. Meg Kinnard, Related Press
Nikki Haley, the previous U.S. ambassador to the United Nations underneath President Donald Trump and former governor of South Carolina, stated Tuesday she's going to use the Christmas vacation to guage whether or not she's going to run for president in 2024. If she decides to run, she's going to renege on her pledge final yr to not run if Trump jumped into the race.
“We're taking the vacations to sort of take a look at what the state of affairs is,” Haley stated Tuesday at her alma mater Clemson College, in line with CBSNews. “If we determine to get into it, we’ll put 1,000% in, and we’ll end it.”
Cherished being again residence with my Clemson household! Thanks @clemsontpusa for packing the home with younger leaders able to combat for America! #GoTigers 🐯 ❤️ 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/hs1ZGvTqRx
— Nikki Haley (@NikkiHaley) November 30, 2022
Haley served as governor of South Carolina from 2011 to 2017. Subsequently, Trump requested her to hitch his administration as ambassador to the U.N. Trump included Haley’s place in his cupboard, the primary time in U.S. historical past. After serving for 2 years, she stepped down whereas reportedly nonetheless on good phrases with the previous president.
Her feedback Tuesday echoed her phrases on the Republican Jewish Coalition in Las Vegas final week. She was one among plenty of potential Republican presidential candidates to attend the assembly. “I’ve by no means misplaced an election, and I’m not going to start out now,” Haley stated in accordance to media shops.
Final yr, Haley advised The Related Press she wouldn't get in the best way of one other Trump run for president. “I'd not run if President Trump ran, and I'd discuss to him about it,” Haley stated in April of 2021.
Staffers of Haley’s political motion committee, Stand with America, declined to remark to the media on what modified Haley’s thoughts or whether or not she had talked with Trump after he formally launched his marketing campaign.
In Las Vegas final week, Haley pitched a extra aggressive imaginative and prescient for the Republican Get together, significantly in gentle of disappointing midterm outcomes for the GOP. She advocated for the social gathering to embrace the assorted types of early voting allowed throughout the nation.
We sat on our fingers whereas Democrats pushed early voting. We have to play the identical recreation and prove voters in EVERY election. #RJCinVegaspic.twitter.com/X2FvZJrRrj
— Nikki Haley (@NikkiHaley) November 21, 2022
“The Democrats did a full-court press to vote early — we sat on our fingers,” Haley stated. “Associates, early and absentee voting are right here to remain. We have to play the identical recreation and prove the utmost variety of voters. The left does it and we don’t.”