China News Service, February 14th, according to a comprehensive report, according to sources, the former US ambassador to the United Nations and former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley will officially announce her candidacy for the presidency on February 15th. Pu launched a contest.
Data map: Former US President Trump and former ambassador to the United Nations Haley (right).
US media reported that Haley will kick off her presidential campaign in the historic coastal city of Charleston on the 15th. She will also compete with Trump and other potential contenders for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination.
Trump is currently the only person in the Republican Party who has officially announced his candidacy for president.
In early 2016, Haley, then governor of South Carolina, expressed "embarrassment" about Trump running for president of the United States.
However, nine months later, she agreed to join the Trump administration and was once appointed by Trump as the US ambassador to the United Nations.
Shortly after Trump left the White House, Haley said that if Trump participated in the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, she would never intervene, implying that she would not compete with Trump.
However, two years later, Haley had a change of heart.
In a previous Fox News interview, Haley said "a lot has changed" since she pledged not to run against Trump in 2021, citing high U.S. inflation and the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan.
Haley argued that the U.S. needs a "new generation" of leadership, which was seen as an unabashed criticism of the age of Democratic Presidents Joe Biden and Trump.
On the 15th, 51-year-old Haley will become the first Republican to officially "challenge" Trump.
The Associated Press stated that at least six well-known Republicans will join the 2024 presidential nomination contest in the next few months.
Some potential rivals might even be more popular than Haley in South Carolina.
Haley's potential rivals include Senator Tim Scott, who has been a popular elected official in South Carolina.
In addition, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and former Vice President Mike Pence are likely to be strong contenders.
Republican donor Eric Levine said he believes Haley is one of the strongest contenders against Trump.
"I don't think she gives the Democratic Party any reason to exist as a woman of color and the daughter of legal immigrants from India."
The argument is that Haley, like the Republican majority, largely supported Trump even after he instigated the violent attack on the Capitol.
However, after the defeat of candidates in several key states supported by Trump in the mid-term elections last fall, the attitude of Republicans towards Trump began to change.
The Associated Press believes that Haley's public challenge to Trump this time just illustrates "worries about Trump's leadership" in the Republican Party, believing that he is "losing political power."