Former South Carolina Governor and one-time UN Ambassador Nikki Haley has officially announced her candidacy for President; she released her launch video this week.
“I was the proud daughter of Indian immigrants — not Black, not white. I was different,” she says.
“My mom would always say your job is not to focus on the differences but the similarities. My parents reminded me and my siblings every day how blessed we were to live in America,” Haley says.
“Some look at our past as evidence that America’s founding principles are bad. They say the promise of freedom is just made up. Some think our ideas are not just wrong, but racist and evil. Nothing could be further from the truth.”
Watch the video above.
From Axios:
Zoom in: South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott is moving toward a presidential campaign of his own. A Scott candidacy would be a major obstacle to Haley, who appointed Scott to a then-vacant Senate seat in 2012.
The bottom line: Haley’s campaign message feels like a throwback to the pre-Trump era, but there’s room for a candidate preaching optimism and American exceptionalism in a GOP race dominated by two populists in Trump and (potentially) Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.