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“When you kick, it hurts more if you’re wearing heels,” says Nikki Haley in her campaign launch video for the presidency of the United States, emphasizing her femininity as an added value to win the position. Dressed in blue and wearing a necklace emblazoned with symbols of her native South Carolina, Haley distances herself from her former boss, Donald Trump, to blaze her own trail, maintaining her Republican steadfastness and demonizing “the socialist left.” ” embodied by Biden.
For starters, Nikki isn’t just called Nikki. Her full name is Nimrata Nikki and her birth name is Randhawa, both of Indian origin, like her parents, Ajit Singh Randhawa and Raj Kaur Randhawa, who came to the United States in the 1950s from Amritsar. , north of India. The last name Haley she would adopt years later from her husband, Michael Haley.
Her first political position was as governor of South Carolina, where she remained for six years – between 2011 and 2017 – with strong popularity. She was the first person of Indian origin to reach such an important position in the United States.
But national notoriety would come to her in 2016 at the hands of Donald Trump who, a few days after being elected president, nominated Nikki Haley for the position of United States ambassador to the UN, where she remained for a year. Her voice was heard loudly against North Korea and Iran, denouncing the plans of these two countries in nuclear matters. Her position was undoubtedly relevant in the decision of the Trump administration to withdraw from the international nuclear agreement signed with Iran, in which the United Kingdom, China, Russia, Germany and France, among others, still remain. An issue that continues to be a headache for the international community.
However, Haley finally resigned from office in 2018 due to internal pressure that his announcements and public decisions did not always follow the line dictated by Trump from the White House.
On a religious level, Nikki Haley’s mix is also unusual: having a direct link to North India, her primary religion is Sikhism, whose foundations rest on equality and oppose India’s traditional caste system.
At the age of 24, he decided to convert to Christianity while continuing to occasionally practice the Sikh religion. In fact, her wedding was celebrated in both religions and despite the fact that Haley publicly declares herself a Christian – like most Republicans – she also attends Sikh services with her family, which always arouses criticism. In addition, the symbol that she always wears on her necklace, a silver crescent accompanied by a palm tree, also arouses suspicion on the part of Americans who interpret a sympathy for the Muslim religion. It’s actually the icons that fly on the South Carolina flag.
Nikki Haley had promised to support Donald Trump in the presidential campaign for the 2024 elections but, without a doubt, the capture of the Capitol and the accusations by Congress against the former president gave a twist to the final decision.
Haley is the first to confirm her candidacy, but she won’t be the only one: former Trump vice president Mike Pence; his former head of diplomacy, Mike Pompeo; Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin and Sen. Tim Scott are also vying to be the Republican Party’s nominee. For now, the political star of the party is Ron DeSantis, governor of the state of Florida, who has not officially announced his intention to run for president but already has quite solid popular and internal support.
Without a doubt, Haley, the only woman in the race, will have to put on her heels very well if she wants to reach the finish line victorious.
