Nikki Haley
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Nimrata Haley (née Randhawa, 1972), also known as Nikki Haley, is an American diplomat, businesswoman, researcher, and politician.
Haley, a former governor of South Carolina and a former United States ambassador to the United States, is a Republican from South Carolina.
She is the first woman to have served as governor of South Carolina and the second Indian-American (after fellow Republican Bobby Jindal of Louisiana) to have served as the nation's second governor. Haley was first elected to the House of Representatives in 2004, and served three terms in the House.
She was elected governor of South Carolina in 2010, during her third term; she won re-election in 2014.
In 2015, Haley signed legislation calling for the removal of the Confederate flag from the state Capitol.
In 2016, Time magazine rated her as one of the world's most influential people. President Donald Trump revealed on November 23, 2016, that he would nominate Haley for the position of United States Ambassador to the United Nations.
In a 96 to 4 vote, Haley was elected to that position by the Senate, and he was sworn in on January 25, 2017.
In the aftermath of the 2017 North Korea crisis, the United States' commitment to further North Korean missile tests was reiterated by the envoy for Israel; she also stood out in favor of Israel.
On December 31, 2018, Haley resigned from her position. Haley is widely regarded as a potential future Republican presidential candidate for President of the United States.
Early life
At Bamberg County Hospital in Bamberg, South Carolina, Haley was born Nimrata Nikki Randhawa to immigrant Indian Punjabi Sikh parents. Ajit Singh Randhawa's father, as well as her mother, Raj Kaur Randhawa, migrated to the United States from Amritsar District, Punjab, India. Her father served as a professor at Punjab Agricultural University, and her mother received her law degree from the University of Delhi. Haley had been known under her middle name, a Punjabi name, from her earliest days.
After her father received a scholarship from University of British Columbia, Haley's parents moved to Canada. Since taking a position as a professor at Voorhees College, a historically black institution, when her father received his PhD in 1969.
Raj Randhawa's mother obtained a master's degree in education and taught for seven years in Bamberg public schools. Exotica International, a well-known clothing store, was founded in 1976. In 2008, it was closed.
Haley has a sister and two brothers. Simrana, a Canadian immigrant, became a television presenter and a scathing attack on the Fashion Institute of Technology. Mitti's brother died as a member of the United States Army Chemical Corps who had been present in Desert Storm; her second brother, Charan, is a web designer; and her sister, Mitti, is a web designer.
Haley, a 12-year-old girl from her mother's women's clothing shop Exotica International, started aiding with bookkeeping. She graduated from the private Orangeburg Preparatory Schools in 1989.
She received a bachelor's degree in accounting from Clemson University.
Personal life
Nikki Randhawa married Michael Haley in September 1996; they celebrated both Sikh and Methodist services. The couple have two children, Rena (born June 8, 1998), and Nalin (born September 6, 2001).
In 1997, Haley converted to Christianity. The United Methodist Church of Sherburn and her husband are regular attendees. She also attends Sikh services about twice a year. On her return to India, she and her husband visited Harmandir Sahib. "I wish that my parents do what's right for them," Haley said in a Christianity Today interview when asked whether or not she wants her parents to convert to Christianity.
Her husband is an officer in the South Carolina Army National Guard. During her gubernatorial term, he was sent in January 2013 on a year-long deployment to Afghanistan.
Haley and her family reside in Kiawah Island, South Carolina, just south of Charleston.
Early career
Haley began working at FCR Corporation, a waste management and recycling company, before joining her family's clothing business as the bookkeeper and chief financial officer.
In 1996, she married Michael Haley. She later became involved in civic affairs. In 1998, she was elected to the board of directors of the Orangeburg County Chamber of Commerce. In 2003, she was elected to the board of directors of the Lexington Chamber of Commerce. In 2003, Haley became treasurer of the National Association of Women Business Owners in 2003 and president in 2004.
The Lexington Gala was held to raise money for a local hospital by Haley. She has worked with the Lexington Medical Foundation, Lexington County Sheriff's Foundation, and West Metro Republican Women. She served as president of the South Carolina Chapter of the National Association of Women Business Owners and was chairperson for the 2006 Friends of Scouting Leadership Division campaign.
Political career
In 2004, Haley ran for the South Carolina House of Representatives to represent District 87 in Lexington County. In the Republican primary, she defeated incumbent state representative Larry Koon. He was the longest-serving legislator in the South Carolina statehouse. Property tax relief and education reform were among her priorities on her agenda. She sparked a runoff in the primary election, but only 42 percent of the vote. With a vote of 40%, she came in second place. She defeated him 55% in the run-off.
In the general election, she ran unopposed. Haley is the first Indian-American to serve in South Carolina. In 2006, she was unopposed for re-election to a second term. She gained re-election to a third term in 2008, defeating Democrat Edgar Gomez 87%.
In 2005, Haley was elected chair of the freshman caucus and a majority whip in the South Carolina General Assembly. At the time, she was the first freshman senator to be elected to a whip position.
One of Haley's stated objectives was to save taxes. Haley voted against a proposed cigarette levy when Mark Sanford was governor of South Carolina, despite the fact that the funds were used for smoking prevention and cancer research related to smoking. She voted for a bill that raised sales tax levy from five cents to six cents per dollar. The bill was exempted from sales tax on unprepared foods such as canned goods. Except for the taxes owed on the house, which is also exempted property tax on "owner-occupied residential property."
As a result of assessments and observations from principals, students, and parents, Haley introduced a policy in which teachers' salaries would be based on not only experience and education, but also job results. She supports school choice and charter schools.
When elected, Haley supports prohibiting lawmakers from receiving legislative pensions. Instead of the salary-plus legislators' $12,000 annual expense allowance, she claims that such pensions should be based on only the $10,400 legislative salary rather than the salary-plus legislators' $12,000 annual spending allowance.
Haley has stated that as the daughter of immigrants, she believes the visa laws should be enforced. She voted in favour of a bill that allows employers to establish that newly hired employees are legal residents of the United States, and that also requires immigrants to carry proof of their citizenship to be in the United States at all times. In June 2011, Haley signed an "Arizona-style" bill cracking down on unlawful immigrant labour. The law is the subject of a lawsuit brought by the US Justice Department on a variety of grounds, including allegations that the immigration law infringes on the Supremacy Clause. "If the feds were doing their jobs, we wouldn't have had to worry about illegal immigration reform at the state level," Rob Godfrey, a spokesman for Haley, said. We're going to keep fighting in South Carolina to ensure our rules are followed until they do, but until they do, we're going to keep fighting in South Carolina."
Haley says she supports pro-life activism and has supported legislation to limit abortion. "I'm not pro-life because the Republican Party lies to me, I'm pro-life because most of us have had knowledge of what it means to have one of these special little ones in our lives." In 2016, she resigned from a new state law prohibiting abortions at 20 weeks of pregnancy.
Haley has supported any bills related to abortion that were discussed or rejected, including the inclusion of Unborn Child/Fetus in the Definition, Prohibiting Employment Termination Because of the Abortion Waiting Period revision, and Exempting Cases of Rape from the Abortion Waiting Period amendment. The former would not have allowed specific cases of women to be allowed to wait the mandatory 24 hours before getting an abortion.
In the 2010 races, Haley declared that she would run for governor of South Carolina on May 14, 2009. Haley had been persuaded to run by both incumbent governor and fellow Republican Mark Sanford. On November 11, 2009, she was endorsed by former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney and Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, as well as Jenny Sanford, South Carolina's incumbent first lady. Haley has long-standing links to the Chicago businessman and the Republican Hindu Coalition's founder, Shalabh "Shalli" Kumar. "Her father Ajit Singh Randhawa, a proud boy who grew up in South Carolina, approached me in the summer of 2010 to encourage his daughter's campaign for governor of South Carolina," Kumar recalled in a 2016 interview. He was the country's largest contributor. She was polling in last place in the Republican race until former Alaska governor Sarah Palin's surprise endorsement three weeks before the primary election was held.
On June 8, 2010, the Republican gubernatorial primary took place, and Haley gained 49% of the vote, sparking a runoff election on June 22. In the run-off election, Haley took the lead.
On November 2, 2010, Haley was elected governor of Kansas, defeating Democratic nominee Vincent Sheheen 51% to 47 percent. After Virginia's Douglas Wilder and Louisiana's Bobby Jindal, she is the third non-white person to have been elected governor of a Southern state.
Haley declared on August 12, 2013 that she would seek a second term as governor. She faced Tom Ervin in the Republican primary. However, Ervin contested the 2014 gubernatorial election as an outsider.
Vincent Sheheen of the Democratic Party ran against Haley in 2010. In the early stages of the campaign, Republican-turned-Independence Tom Ervin, as well as Libertarian Steve French and United Citizens Party candidate Morgan Bruce Reeves, were both running. On October 14, French, Ervin, Haley, Reeves, and Sheheen held the first public debate in Charleston. All five candidates were present at the second public debate in Greenville on October 21. Ervin resigned from the campaign and praised Sheheen a week after the second debate.
Haley was re-elected on November 4, 2014, with a 59.99 percent to 41.3 percent win, almost tripling her previous margin of victory over Sheheen in the 2010 gubernatorial election.
In January 2011, Haley took over as governor of South Carolina. Haley feuded with veteran legislators in the General Assembly during her second term. In 2016, she endorsed powerful senate finance chairman Hugh Leatherman's primary challenger. Haley was not just a lame duck, but a "dead duck," according to Leatherman after winning the primary. Haley's second term as governor was expected to end on January 9, 2019, but she resigned on January 24, 2017 to serve as the United States ambassador to the United Nations.
On January 12, 2016, Haley delivered the official Republican response to President Barack Obama's 2016 State of the Union Address.
Haley was ranked as one of the world's most influential people in 2016.
Four lieutenant governors served under Haley. After Glenn F. McConnell's departure, Haley, a Republican, appointed Yancey McGill, a Democrat, to serve as her lieutenant governor. Haley was initially against having a Democrat run as the second-in-command to the governor, but she and the Senate later changed course, and she and the Senate soon agreed otherwise.
Haley revealed on December 17, 2012, that she would appoint Tim Scott to replace retiring Senator Jim DeMint, who had previously announced that he would step down from the Senate to become the president of the Heritage Foundation. Following his inauguration, Scott became the first African American senator from South Carolina.
Scott, Senator Trey Gowdy, former South Carolina attorney general Henry McMaster, former First Lady Jenny Sanford, and South Carolina Department of Health and Environment Control Director Catherine Templeton were among Haley's short list to replace DeMint, according to news outlets. "It's important to me, as a minority female, that Congressman Scott obtained this seat," Haley said. With the success he has demonstrated, he earned this position."
Haley was fined $3,500 by the State Ethics Commission in July 2013 for failing to disclose the addresses of eight donors during her 2010 campaign for governor.
Dusten Brown's extradition order was delivered to South Carolina in the Adoptive Couple vs. Baby Girl case in August 2013.
Haley appointed Bobby Hitt as the state's commerce minister after he was elected governor.She stated of the economy:
She has urged companies to relocate to South Carolina by adding:
Haley was a supporter of flying the Confederate flag on the statehouse grounds until June 2015. "I think the state will start talking about it again, and we'll see where it goes." In the immediate aftermath of the Charleston church shooting, Haley did not take a stand on removing the flag. Haley requested that the Confederate flag be removed from the statehouse grounds on June 22, 2008.She stated:
Haley signed a bill in July 2015 that allowed the Confederate flag to be removed from the flagpole on the grounds of the South Carolina Capitol's grounds. She defended the people of South Carolina in December 2019, saying that "any people" in South Carolina understood the flag as a symbol of "service and sacrifice, as well as history" before it was hijacked by the white supremacist mass killer Dylann Roof.
Haley said in April 2016 that she would not accept legislation passed by the South Carolina state Senate that would encourage transgender people to use toilets based on their gender coded at birth.Haley stated:
Such restroom regulations, according to Haley, are unnecessary.
Haley spoke out against Executive Order 13988, officially titled Preventing and Combating Discrimination based on gender identity and sexual orientation in 2021.
Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina has described Haley as a "strong promoter of Israel" in the State of Israel. She signed a bill in South Carolina to stop the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions campaign from being active (BDS) campaign. This was the first time a statewide statute of this sort. "Nowhere has the UN's performance been more consistent and more shocking than in its commitment against our close ally Israel," Haley said.
In response to an attack by then-president Donald Trump, Haley received a lot of press attention in 2016. Trump called for him to reveal his tax records on Twitter.
During the campaign, Haley was dismissive of Trump and a promoter of Florida senator Marco Rubio.She stated on Trump in 2016:
When Rubio dropped out of the race, she then endorsed candidate Ted Cruz. When Trump became the Republican nominee, she said she would vote for him but not as a fan.
"After being purged from governorship of South Carolina to serve as the United States ambassador to the United Nations," Haley says in a New York Times editorial that Haley was able to "exit the government with largely intact" during the next five years.
Haley supports voter ID policies, which include photo identification at the polls.
Haley pleaded guilty to the death penalty against Dylann Roof, which was referred to in the state of Maryland.
Haley vetoed 50 bills during her state legislature's 2011-2017 session, with 24 (48%) of which were overridden by the state legislature.
President Donald Trump announced on November 23, 2016, that he would nominate Haley as his ambassador to the United Nations General Assembly. President Trump nominated Haley to the United States Senate on January 20, 2017. According to reports, Trump considered Haley for the role of secretary of state, which she declined.
Haley was confirmed by the Senate on January 24, 2017 by a vote of 96–4, becoming the United States ambassador to the United Nations. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Tom Udall (D-N.M.), and Chris Coons (D-Del.) were among the four senators who voted against Haley. Haley was the first Indian American to hold a cabinet position. Lt. resigned as governor of South Carolina and Lt. shortly thereafter. Governor Henry McMaster assumed the governorship of South Carolina.
Vice President Mike Pence sworn in Haley on January 25, 2017. On January 27, 2017, she met with United Nations secretary-general António Guterres at the UN Headquarters in New York City. Ambassador Samantha Power had to be recalled by the end.
Haley announced on February 2, 2017 that sanctions against Russia for the Crimean war will not be lifted until Russia restored power over the area to Ukraine. On June 4, Haley said that the US will keep "sanctions solid and tough" when it comes to the Ukraine issue.
If President Trump decides to enforce one, Haley said on March 15, 2017, she would not endorse a ban on Muslim immigration to the United States. Haley said she did not believe that "we should never exclude anyone based on their faith" and that a Muslim ban would be "un-American."
The United States will no longer concentrate on pressuring Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to leave office, according to Haley on March 30, 2017. Former President Barack Obama's initial position on Assad was a political change. Haley said that Russia, Assad, and Iran "have no interest in peace" and that attacks similar to the one in Khan Shaykhun were continuing to occur if nothing was done in response, a day after the Khan Shaykhun chemical attack, and that if nothing be done in response. The United States launched 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles in Syria's Shayrat Air Base a day later. Haley called the attack a "very measured measure" and warned that the US was able to do more, even though wishing it would not be required. "We must see Russia choose to join the civilized world against a brutally terrorized its own people," Haley said on April 12, after Russia blocked a draft resolution aimed at condemning the Khan Shaykhun chemical attack. "I can tell you due to President Trump's words, we did not see an incident." Haley praised Syria's warning of ending another chemical attack while speaking before the US House Committee on Foreign Affairs on June 28: "I can tell you due to the president's conduct, we did not see an incident."
Haley, who was hosting her first session as president of the UN Security Council in April 2017, charged Iran and Hezbollah with "conducted terrorist activities" for decades within the Middle East.
Haley said the US military could be sent in response to any further North Korean missile tests or use of nuclear missiles, as well as that Kim Jong-un understood this due to pressure from both the US and China. After receiving pressure from the US Security Council that included fifteen North Koreans and four entities linked to North Korea's nuclear and missile programs to a sanctions blacklist, Haley said Kim was "in a state of uncertainty" on May 14, 2017. Haley said the US will release a resolution during a U.N. Security Council meeting in reaction to North Korea's unveiling of an intercontinental ballistic missile, which would boost the international reaction in a way that is proportionate to North Korea's new increase." The United Nations Security Council had unanimously approved sanctions on North Korea banning exports worth more than $1 billion last month. The sanctions package, according to Haley, was "the single highest... ever leveled against the North Korean regime."
In Chechnya, Haley protested Ramzan Kadyrov and the abuse and murder of gay men. "We continue to be concerned by reports of kidnapping, torture, and murder of people in Chechnya based on their sexual orientation," she said. "This violation of human rights cannot be ignored."
Haley expressed an interest in moving the US Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem in a May 2017 interview. On June 7, Haley charged Israel with "bullied Israel for a long time" and announced that the US would stop such treatment while in Jerusalem. During the Six-Day War in 1967, Israel occupied the Jordan-controlled East Jerusalem and formally annexed it in 1980. Jerusalem was designated as Israel's "undivided capital" by the Jerusalem Law.
In a statement, Haley said that the decision was "tragic on several fronts" in July 2017, as well as the endangered world heritage sites.
"Some countries" (a reference to Russia, although Haley did not mention Russia by name) were shielding Iran by preventing the International Atomic Energy Agency from monitoring Iranian compliance with the international nuclear deal with Iran in September 2017. According to Haley, it appears that some countries are attempting to prevent Iran from ever more inspections. The Iran deal is an empty promise without inspections."
Haley said in September 2017 that her government was "deeply troubled" by allegations of violence against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar. "Justifying the detention of the two Reuters journalists who covered the ethnic cleansing," Haley chastised Myanmar's civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
The federal Office of Special Counsel determined in October 2017 that Haley had breached the federal Hatch Act by re-tweeting Trump's endorsement of Ralph Norman, a Republican candidate for Congress in South Carolina. The re-tweet was deleted after a government watchdog organization Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington lodged a lawsuit. The Office of Special Counsel issued a reprimand by letter but no further action was taken against Haley. Any foreseeable breach could be considered "a willful and knowing violation of the law," according to the special counsel's letter.
The United States and 13 other nations voted against a United Nations resolution titled "The Question of the Death Penalty," which condemned capital punishment when "applied arbitrarily or in a discriminatory manner," and specifically condemned "the imposition of the death penalty as a punishment for particular types of behavior, including apostasy, blasphemy, adultery, and consensual same-sex relations." The vote was criticized by LGBT rights advocates in the United States, including the Human Rights Campaign. A State Department spokeswoman reported after the election that "We voted against the bill because of broader issues with the resolution's call for condemning the death penalty in all situations." The United States has sluggishly condemned the use of the death penalty for crimes including homosexuality, blasphemy, adultery, and apostasy. Such conduct is not appropriate for criminalization, according to the author.
Any unilateral decisions on Jerusalem's status were blocked by Egypt's Security Council resolution, which would have derogated any unilateral decisions. The resolution also requested that countries "refrain from the establishment of diplomatic missions in the holy city." Haley warned UN members that she would be "taking names" of countries that refused to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital and relocate the US Embassy there from Tel Aviv in December 2017. In a letter, Haley said: "I encourage you to know the president and the United States vote personally." "The president will be closely monitoring this election and has requested that I keep an eye on those who voted against us," he said. The vote was still passed by a large margin: 128 for the sake of voting, 35 abstaining, and only nine against. Haley also went to several countries that voted "No," including Guatemala and Honduras, and thanked them for their assistance in the emergency special session.
In December 2017, Haley accused Iran of assisting the Houthi rebels in Yemen. The Houthis were fighting the Hadi regime in Saudi Arabia. "The war against Iranian imperialism is the world's war," she said. Alireza Miryusefi, the UN's mission's spokesperson, said in reaction that "these allegations also seek to cover up for the Saudi war crimes in Yemen, with the US complicity, and divert attention away from the stalemate war of violence against the Yemenis." Before the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Iran saluted Haley's speech to that of then-Secretary of State Colin Powell. "It's impossible to find a conflict or terrorist group in the Middle East that doesn't have Iran's fingerprints all over it," Haley said, although she did not mention the United States' involvement in Yemen's Saudi-led coalition's blockade of Yemen.
The women who had accused President Trump of touching or groping them without their permission "should be heard," Haley said in December 2017.
Through the United Nations, she supported President Donald Trump's withholding assistance to Palestinians. UNRWA, the Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA).
In a massive attack in Timbuktu in April 2018, she failed to inform both President Trump and the American people that many US Military troops deployed in support of the UN Multidimensional Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA).
She resigned as the United Nations ambassador on October 9, 2018, which President Donald Trump accepted. Haley's resignation came just a day after an anti-corruption watchdog accused her of receiving seven luxury private plane trips as gifts from South Carolina business executives. Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), a watchdog group, was the first to announce this news after requesting an Inspector General inquiry. These seven flights were given as gifts on a 2018 financial report, claiming that they are exempt from ethics offences because they were given by personal contacts. CREW's spokesperson said they had no reason to believe that this was related to her resignation as ambassador.
Haley referred to China's re-education camps and human rights abuses against the minority of the Uyghur Muslim minority in October 2018. "About a million Uighurs and other Muslim minorities have been held in so-called'reeducation camps' in western China," she said, and prisoners have been "forced to renounce their faith and pledge allegiance to the Communist Party."
On December 31, 2018, Haley resigned as the United Nations ambassador. As the United States, she was crowned President of the United States. Ambassador Kelly Craft, from the United States, is the UN Ambassador to the United Nations.
Stand for America, a group that promotes federal policies aimed at improving the economy, culture, and national security concerns, was established in Haley in 2019. Several billionaires and hedge fund managers have made significant contributions to the organization.
Haley had been nominated to Boeing's board of directors in February 2019. On April 29, she was elected at the annual shareholder meeting. Critics have argued that while in office in South Carolina, she may have been able to Haley due to her positive executive conduct in connection with Boeing. "British board members receive minimum annual compensation of $315,000 as of 2017, the most recent figures available in a regulatory filing." Haley resigned from the board of directors on March 19, 2020, citing her dissatisfaction with the board over a government bailout during the global coronavirus crisis.
She voted in favor of Trump's assassination of Iranian general Qasem Soleimani in January 2020. Democrats were "mourning the death of Soleimani," Haley said on Fox News and later tweeted.
Haley formed a PAC in early 2021 to endorse and assist candidates running in the 2022 midterm elections. Betsy Ankney, the former NRSC political director, was recruited to serve as the executive director.
Haley was chosen to replace David Wilkins for a lifetime position on the Clemson University Board of Trustees in October 2021.
Haley endorsed and campaigned for Marco Rubio in the 2016 Republican presidential primaries. "We saw and looked at real hate in the eyes last year in Charleston," Trump denied last year, adding, "We will not stop fighting a man who has refused to condemn the KKK." That is not a member of our party. We don't want to be president if that is not who we want as president." "That is not who our Republican Party is," she said. That's not who America is. "My parents came here because they knew there was love and compassion in this world." Rubio dropped out of the competition two weeks after. "Of course," she answered as she asked if she'd vote for Trump in October 2016. "The best person based on the policies, and dealing with issues such as Obamacare and dealing with Obamacare," Haley said. Haley cautioned that Trump's words could result in violence.
Since resigning in 2018, she has been a fan of Trump and his administration's characterization of him as a "friend." She had tweeted that she was "proud of the Trump administration" and that she would not "apologise" for working with Trump. "I know the president" has been defending Trump after losing by a landslide to Joe Biden in 2016. I know he was wronged but not his making it up," says the author.
On Fox News's The Ingraham Angle, Laura Ingraham characterized Trump's activities around the 2021 raging of the United States Capitol as "not his finest," but she sluggishly condemned Trump's second impeachment, criticizing Democrats and journalists. She also announced that she would vote against impeachment and that "they will bring about an impeachment," in a television interview on January 25. However, they claim to be for unity. Right before he was elected, they beat him up. Since he departed from office, they're beating him up. Give the guy a break at some point. "I'm talking about, move forward." "We should admit he let us down," Haley said in an interview given on January 12, 2021, but a month later, as Trump's second impeachment trial was underway on allegations he triggered the January 2021 rioting of the Capitol. He took a path he shouldn't have chosen, and we shouldn't have followed him, and we shouldn't have been interested in his study, so we shouldn't have listened to him. We can't let this happen again." Haley later reached out to former President Trump in February 2021 to schedule a sit-down meeting in Mar-a-Lago, according to Politico. Trump reportedly refused the offer.
When she inquired whether Trump is a friend, she said, "Friend is a loose term." "I'm angry because I'm furious, it's an understatement," Trump said of her role during the 2021 turbulent sessions of the US Capitol, adding, "I tell you I'm angry, it's an understatement."
In February 2021 Haley stated:
Despite her skepticism, Haley said in April 2021 that she would vote for President Donald Trump in 2024.
Former governor Mitt Romney nominated her for his vice president candidate in 2012. Haley said in April 2012 that she would decline any potential vice presidential bid, but no, I said thank you, but no, I made a promise to the people of this state." And I agree that promise matters. I want to keep it "and I want to keep it."
Haley was dubbed a front-runner in the 2016 United States presidential election in January 2016. Haley was described as a politician with high approval ratings who possesses "fiscal ferocity and a capacity for reconciliation," according to the Economist, who said that as a female candidate and ethnic minority, she would appeal. Haley, the presumed presidential nominee, expressed no interest in the vice presidential nomination on May 4, 2016.
Haley spoke at Christians United for Israel's first-day of Israel in July 2022, hinting at a bid for president in the 2024 US presidential race: "Iran nuclear [Iran nuclear] agreement would shred it on her first day in office."
Awards and honors
- Friend of the Taxpayer Award, S.C. Association of Taxpayers, 2005
- Leader in Liberty Award, ABATE of South Carolina, 2005
- Legislator of the Year Award, Centennial Foundation, 2005
- Indian American Pride Award, Indian American Friendship Council, 2005
- Palmetto Leadership Award, South Carolina Policy Council, 2006
- Strom Thurmond Excellence in Public Service and Government Award, South Carolina Federation of Republican Women, 2006
- Champion of Housing Award, Home Builders Association of S.C., 2007
- W. Mack Chamblee Quality of Life Award, S.C. Association of Realtors, 2007
- Order of the Palmetto, 2010
- India Abroad Person of the Year 2010, India Abroad, 2011
- State Leadership Award, Motor & Equipment Manufacturers Association, 2013
- Roger Milliken Defender Of Manufacturing Award, South Carolina Manufacturers Alliance, Dec 5, 2013
- Honorary Doctorate of Public Service, University of South Carolina, May 8, 2015
- Ambassador of the Year, Columbia Chamber, 2015.
- Award of Appreciation, Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations, 2015
- David H. Wilkins Awards for Excellence, The Riley Institute at Furman University, 2015
- First Lady's Visionary Award, Claflin University, 2016
- "The 100 Most Influential People", Time, 2016
- Hyman Rubin Award, Greater Columbia Community Relations Council, 2016
- WDN "10 for 10" award, International Republican Institute, 2016
- Global Vision Award, Columbia World Affairs Council, 2016
- The World's 100 Most Powerful Women, Forbes, 2017
- The 25 Most Powerful Female Political Leaders, Forbes, 2017
- Honorary Doctorate of Humanities, Clemson University, May 10, 2018
- Freedom award, International Republican Institute, 2018
- Defender of Israel, Christians United for Israel, July 23, 2018
- FDD's Jeane J. Kirkpatrick Statesmanship Award, Foundation for Defense of Democracies 2018
- Global Leadership Award Hudson Institute 2018
- Barbara K. Olson Woman of Valor Award, Independent Women's Forum,2018
- Excellence in Diplomacy Award, B'nai B'rith International, 2018
- Citizen of the Carolinas Award, 2018
- Ralph Hauenstein Fellowship Award, Hauenstein Center for Presidential Studies, 2019
- Friend of Israel Humanitarian Award, Miami Jewish Federation, 2019
- JCCM King David Award 11 April 2019
- UN Watch's Eleanor Roosevelt Award, UN Watch 2019
- Humanitarian Laureate Award, The Simon Wiesenthal Center, May 24, 2019
- Irving Kristol Award American Enterprise Institute 2019
- World Jewish Congress Theodor Herzl Award, 6 November 2019
- Woman of Courage, College of Charleston's School of Business Award, February 27, 2020
- SOTE Award finalist - delayed ceremony due to COVID-19 pandemic.