Haley remains undeterred despite landing third place.
Americans deserve better," she said in her speech after the Iowa caucus results (viaNBC News).
“I kick with a smile,” she said to Politico.
“It hurts them more when you’re wearing heels.”
Rather, she pursued a career in accounting.
Haley’s knack for crunching numbers was evident when she was still a kid.
After university, Haley worked as an accountant for a while.
Nothing seemed to indicate that she was destined for political success.
“Let me put it this way.
She didn’t know it at the time, but he would eventually become her husband.
She explained that she enjoyed his company but was a novice when it came to dating.
“I wasn’t ready to like him too much,” she wrote.
She and Bill stayed in contact and grew closer after he broke up with his girlfriend.
“He never did date the other girl,” Nikki writes in the book.
“We, however, went on to date for the next seven years.”
Early on in their courtship, Bill shared his full name: William Michael Haley.
Clearly, this stuck.
They married in 1996.
Now I wish we had learned, but that is why I think I made the transition.”
What’s more, she only has respect and reverence for the religion she grew up with.
It’s no surprise that the two clicked when they met for the first time.
“We were talking as we were riding in the car.
I was telling her my stories, and she would say she had been through that, too.
She was so right,” Haley recalled.
Ever since that car ride, Palin and Haley have supported each other.
It’s no secret that, in the past, it was unheard of for women to attempt this.
I’m running for office.'"
The allegations surfaced a few weeks before the primary election.
“Several years ago, prior to my marriage, I had an inappropriate physical relationship with Nikki.
That’s it,” he wrote in a statement on his website,FITSNews.
He didn’t elaborate, but he didn’t have to the damage was done.
Haley was furious and vehemently denied the allegations.
“And they literally paid money to have that happen.
And it’s something that, I mean, I’ll never get over it,” she said.
She ended up winning the election.
That year, she and Susana Martinez became the country’s first non-white female governors.
She ended up beating him by 30 points.
It turned out that the extramarital affair allegations worked in her favor more than she could’ve bargained for.
“But that all went to waste.”
In 2015, she pushed for the Confederate flag to be removed from South Carolina’s state capitol building.
He also shared an image of the Confederate battle flag.
She took the necessary steps to get the ball rolling to remove the contentious flag once and for all.
This feat earned her a spot onTimemagazine’s list of 100 most influential people in the world in 2016.
She also took jabs at his unsuccessful business endeavors and implied his tax records weren’t on the up-and-up.
As Politico recounted, Trump clapped back by calling Haley a “a b**ch.”
In classic Southern style, Haley replied, “Bless your heart.”
“On his policy, I agree with everything that he’s done,” she said.
Nikki Haley was appointed the U.S.
The second was that she wanted to be part of the decision-making process.
“I said, ‘I’m a policy girl,'” she recalled to Politico.
“So, I need to be on the National Security Council.”
The third condition was that she wanted to be able to speak her mind.
“I said, ‘Well, I’m not going to be a wallflower or a talking head.
I need to be able to say what I think.’
And he said, ‘Nikki, that’s exactly why I want you to do this.’
And he was true to his word from the first day to the last day,” she said.
Haley didn’t stick around for Trump’s entire time in office.
In 2018, she stepped down from the position.
Former national security advisor to the Trump administration, H.R.
This apparently drove a wedge between Haley and Pence.
“I don’t play for a second.
I’ve never played for a second.
I’m not going to start now.
I’m not interested in being vice president.
She also had a message for those who plan on giving Trump their vote.
It’s gonna be a nail-biter of an election.
We’re gonna be holding our breath I don’t want a President Kamala Harris.”
“I understand the president.
I understand that genuinely, to his core, he believes he was wronged.
This is not him making it up,” she said at the time.
This statement seemed borderline uncharacteristic for Haley, as she’d challenged Trump publicly in the past.
She did, however, insinuate that he would concede if his Texas lawsuit was unsuccessful.
Immediately after the January 6 insurrection, Haley changed her tune to some degree.
And it wasn’t just his words.
His actions since Election Day will be judged harshly by history."
Fast forward to 2023, and Haley started openly condemning the insurrection and all who took part in it.
By the time 2023 rolled around, however, it appeared that Haley changed her mind.
She announced her bid for the White House in February of that year.
“The Washington establishment has failed us over and over and over again.
At least, that’s what Trump told reporters when asked about his new rival.
“I don’t talk about opponents.
She then continued to explain that America couldn’t survive another year of that.
“I don’t have vengeance, I don’t have vendettas.
I don’t take things personally.
It’s a word that comes up a lot in regards to Haley.
In her book, Haley noted the contempt she has for the word “ambitious.”
One name that’s come up more than once: Bill Clinton.
“She has that same charisma, that same pulse on people, that same force of personality.”
As Politico pointed out, Clinton and Haley have both been called slick, too.
Former White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney said Haley is also very good at handling prospective enemies.
“Listen, man.
She will cut you to pieces,” he said.
“Nikki Haley has a memory.
She has a memory,” he reiterated.
“She will remember who was with her and who was against her.
And she won’t give a second chance to anyone who she thinks did her wrong.”
The Republican Party has yet to make this kind of history, but there’s a chance in 2024.
But does she have a shot?
AsPoliticopointed out, Haley has not lost an election as of this writing.
Could this lucky streak take her all the way to the White House?
Former Carolina House speaker David Wilkins noted that Haley’s ability to connect with others could take her far.
“She has the X factor,” he said.
And Haley might manage just that for better or worse.
