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What Nikki Haley (Maybe) Learned in New Hampshire

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Sign up for The Decision, a newsletter featuring our 2024 election coverage. “Everybody’s waiting to write my obituary.” This is never a good thing for a candidate to be saying on Election Day. But Nikki Haley, the candidate, was trying—pleading—to make a larger point to CNN’s Dana Bash as they sat on raised chairs in the middle of Chez Vachon, the landmark coffee shop and makeshift TV studio on the west side of Manchester, New Hampshire. “We had 14 candidates,” Haley said, referring to the number of people who were…

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Nikki Haley’s Dilemma Is Also the Republicans’ Problem

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Republicans have had 10 months to hammer out a coherent post-Roe message on abortion. You would think they’d have nailed it by now. Yet on Tuesday, Nikki Haley set out to declare her position on the issue—and proceeded to be about as clear as concrete. She began with plausible precision. “I want to save as many lives and help as many moms as possible,” the former South Carolina governor and ambassador to the United Nations told reporters gathered at the Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America headquarters, in Northern Virginia—a press…

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Get to Know Nikki: Nikki Haley Is Just as MAGA as the MAGA Right Wing

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Today, former Trump administration Cabinet official Nikki Haley announced her run for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination. As she launches her campaign, Haley is talking about her personal background and attempting to distinguish herself from what promises to be a Republican field that is slanted to the far right.  But a look at the evidence suggests that Nikki Haley is just another MAGA hardliner masquerading as a mainstream Republican to try to appeal to more-moderate primary voters. Here’s a look at just three of Haley’s most defiant “just as MAGA”…

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Nikki Haley to Resign as Trump’s Ambassador to the UN – New York Times

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The Independent Nikki Haley to Resign as Trump's Ambassador to the UNNew York TimesAnother possibility is Richard A. Grenell, the American ambassador to Germany, who served as a spokesman for John R. Bolton, the current national security adviser, when he was ambassador to the United Nations under President George W. Bush. … Soon …Nikki Haley can thank Hillary Clinton for her career as a “key player” in US politicsQuartz Nikki Haley may have timed her exit perfectlyCNNTrump-Haley announcement: President praises his 'friend' as UN Ambassador says 'US is strong again'…

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