«NDon’t you really want two 80-year-olds competing for the White House?”: is summed up with this cheekily phrase ageisit the last minute strategy of 52-year-old Nikki Haley, the former US ambassador to the UN who will play head-to-head tomorrow in the Republican primaries against party opponent Donald Trump, after the withdrawal of Ron DeSantis.
The polls give the tycoon the advantage, but the New Hampshire polls could hold a final surpriseperhaps thanks to the front of the many anti-Trumpists dem who they could vote for the former governor of South Carolina. Forgetting for a moment his pro-life anti-abortion stance (but not against LGBTQ+ rights), his support for restrictive immigration laws (despite his Indian origins), the withdrawal from the Paris Agreements and criticism of NATO.
What Nikki Haley said against Trump and Biden
«The other day Trump repeated that on January 6, 2021 I was in charge of ensuring the security of Congress during the assault (on Capitol Hill, ed.). But he was confused, he was referring to Nancy Pelosi. Just as you said that Biden risks starting the Second World War or that in the 2016 presidential election you beat Obama »said Nikki Haley during her electoral tour in New Hampshire.
Republican candidate Nikki Haley on February 15, 2023 in Charleston, South Carolina. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)
«I love my elderly parents, but when you see them you notice a decline: do you want two 80-year-old candidates?» he winked, referring to the ages of Trump and Biden. And on his idea of politics, these declarations are enough: «Trump says I want to take away your pension, but he wants to raise the age to take it to 70. He didn’t build the anti-immigration wall, while I had passed the harshest law. He says I can’t wait to start wars, but my husband is a soldier and the last thing I want is to send my loved ones to fight. Instead he boasts of his relationships with dictators.”
Private life Nikki Haley
Nimrata Randhawa, this is Nikki Haley’s real name registered in the registry office in 1972, she was born in Bamberg, South Carolina, into an Indo-American Sikh family. His father and mother are emigrants from Punjabhe is a former university professor and she is a former teacher and entrepreneur in the clothing field (in the Seventies she created the Exotica International brand).
Nikki is the nickname that has always been given to her in the family: he has two brothers, one sister and a bachelor’s degree in Accounting from Clemson University. In 1996 she married army officer Michael Haley in a Sikh-Methodist ceremony, “borrowing” his surname which she never left behind.
They have two children, Rena and Nalin. On the private life of the aspiring US candidate, some distant rumor of infidelity in 2008, now brought to light by the English Daily Mail without too much fanfare.
The political life of the candidate
Nikki Haley boasts a very respectable political curriculum: she was the first Indo-American in the South Carolina House of Representatives, in 2004, and in 2010 she became Governor, then reconfirmed in 2014.
In 2017 she was appointed (by Donald Trump) permanent representative for the USA to the United Nations, where it intervened against Iran and Hezbollah, against Assad in Syria, Putin in Russia and missile tests in North Korea. In 2022 he announced his candidacy as leader of the Republican Party, made official in 2023.
Second the EconomistAnd equipped with “fiscal ferocity and conciliation ability”. Qualities that, in this electoral battle, he seems to have put aside to try everything on this last night before the primaries, to the sound of the claim that bounces on his website and invites you to join Team Nikki: “I’m running to stop the chaos and save America”.
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