![]() In the first half of April, she’s set to swing through several stops in Iowa, which holds the first presidential caucus. Since announcing her campaign in February, Haley has embarked on an aggressive travel schedule that has taken her through key early voting states. “As Nikki said in her announcement speech in Charleston on February 15, ‘I’ve been underestimated before. “Voters and donors are clearly responding to Nikki’s conservative message and her call for a new generation of leadership to make America strong and proud,” Betsy Ankney, Haley’s campaign manager, said in a statement. The $11 million sum overshadows the roughly $9.5 million former President Trump raised in the first quarter since announcing his latest bid for the 2024 Republican presidential nod. ![]() The eight-figure haul comes from 70,000 donations, including 67,000 small-dollar donations - those totaling $200 or less - her campaign said. In a 2020 speech to the Republican National Convention that followed weeks of protests alleging racial injustice by police, Haley called the flag a “divisive symbol” that was removed peacefully.Republican presidential hopeful Nikki Haley pulled in more than $11 million in her first six weeks on the trail, her campaign announced on Wednesday. After many responded saying that the flag represented treason and racial hatred, Haley said in a statement on Twitter that she stood by her call to remove it. Haley later faced criticism for telling conservative host Glen Beck in a 2019 interview that the Charleston shooter “hijacked” the ideals many connected to the flag, including the “service, and sacrifice and heritage” it meant to some. It came down less than a month after the murders. But after the massacre and with the support of other leading Republicans, Haley advocated for legislation to remove the flag. For years before the 2015 killings, Haley had resisted calls to remove the Confederate flag from the Statehouse grounds, even casting a rival’s push for its removal as a desperate stunt. Haley’s biggest moment on the national stage as governor came during her second term, when a self-avowed white supremacist who had been pictured holding Confederate flags murdered nine Black parishioners as they gathered for Bible study in a Charleston church. Haley is the first woman to be a major candidate for president in 2024, and just the fifth Republican woman this century. At 38, she also was the nation’s youngest governor. ![]() Three terms later, she made a longshot bid for governor and defeated a field of more veteran politicians to become the first woman and first Indian American to lead South Carolina. In her first campaign in 2004, she defeated the state’s longest-serving House member. “Nothing could be further from the truth,” she said in her formal announcement Wednesday.īefore becoming South Carolina governor, Haley was an accountant and served in the state House of Representatives. In a video announcing her presidential bid, Haley referenced that past, saying she grew up “not Black, not white - I was different.” She also insisted - as she has in past speeches - that America is not a racist country. Raised in the Sikh faith by a father who wore a turban and a mother who wore a sari, she has described enduring racist taunts and feeling like she didn’t fit in, an experience she says had an impact on on her personal and political life. Haley, 51, grew up in the small rural community of Bamberg, South Carolina, the daughter of Indian immigrants. Here are some things to know about the former South Carolina governor and U.S. (AP) - Republican Nikki Haley joined the 2024 race for president this week, becoming the first major rival to former President Donald Trump in a field that is expected to grow in coming months.
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