Since leaving the Trump administration in 2018, Ms. Haley has enjoyed a good relationship with the former president, praising his policies and achievements while in office while offering criticism that appealed to moderates. of the Republican Party. The day after the January 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol, she said his actions “will be severely judged by history.”
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But she opposes his impeachment for his actions around the riot. “I mean, at some point, give the man a break,” she said. speak on Fox News in late January 2021.
In the video, Haley does not mention Trump by name, but she makes it clear that she intends to break with the Trump era. In addition to calling for a new generation to come forward, she called for a return to “the values that still make our country the freest and greatest in the world.”
“Republicans have lost the popular vote in seven of the past eight presidential elections,” she said. “That has to change.”
In interviews last month, Haley compared the ages of both Mr. Trump, 76, and President Biden, 80. “I don’t think you need to be 80 to be a leader in DC,” she said. told Fox News.
To make her way into the top Republican presidential candidate pool, Haley’s campaign is drawing on her skills as a retail campaigner in the primaries. She’s heading to New Hampshire after a rally planned in South Carolina on Wednesday for a pair of town hall-style events, and she’s due to go to Iowa next week.
Haley, born in Bamberg, SC, and a graduate of Clemson University, worked her family’s clothing store, including as an accountant, before winning her first three terms at South Carolina House of Representatives.
