Sikh community reacts to Nikki Haley runnig for President

[pieter]

[pieter]

[karl]

Pieter

It is refreshing to view an American Politician that is smart. Normally myself tend to stay away from American politics, but due to your presentation of this speech given by Miss Nikki Haley {Niharita Nikki Haley} was impressive. With this, was to remember her for some time in past, she was The U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations and how soon I forget.

If the playing field is level and straight, she should do well as a presidential contender.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikki_Haley

Karl

[pieter]

Relationship with Donald Trump



During the 2016 Republican presidential primaries Haley supported and campaigned for Florida Senator Marco Rubio.

Haley received extensive press coverage for saying the phrase "bless your heart" in response to an attack by then-presidential candidate Donald Trump. Trump had attacked her on Twitter after her call for him to release his tax records.

Haley was critical of Trump during the election. She stated of Trump in 2016:

"I will not stop until we fight a man that chooses not to disavow the KKK. That is not a part of our party. That's not who we want as president. We will not allow that in our country."

When Rubio dropped out of the election, she then supported candidate Ted Cruz. When Trump became the Republican putative nominee, she said that she would vote for him, but was "not a fan."[186]

In October 2016, when asked if she'd vote for Trump she replied, "Of course". Haley further endorsed Trump saying, "...the best person based on the policies, and dealing with things like Obamacare, still is Donald Trump".[187][188] But Haley also warned Trump's rhetoric could lead to violent tragedy.


Donald Trump with Haley at the United Nations General Assembly in 2018

Since her resignation as UN ambassador in 2018, she has remained supportive of Trump and his administration describing him as a "friend". She has stated that she was "proud of the successes of the administration" and "I'm not going to apologize" for working with Trump. She defended Trump since his election loss against Joe Biden saying, "I understand the president. I understand that genuinely, to his core, he believes he was wronged, this is not him making it up."

She described Trump's actions around the 2021 storming of the United States Capitol as "not his finest", but opposed Trump's second impeachment, criticizing Democrats and journalists on Fox News's The Ingraham Angle with Laura Ingraham. In that January 25 television interview, she also declared that she would vote against impeachment, and that "They will bring about impeachment, yet they say they are for unity. They beat him up before he got into office. They are beating him up after he leaves office. At some point, give the man a break. I mean, move on". However, in an interview given on January 12, 2021, but published a month later, while Trump's second impeachment trial was underway on charges he had incited the January 2021 storming of the Capitol, Haley said, "We need to acknowledge he let us down. He went down a path he shouldn't have, and we shouldn't have followed him, and we shouldn't have listened to him. And we can't let that ever happen again." According to Politico in February 2021, Haley reportedly reached out to former President Trump to request a sit-down meeting at Mar-a-Lago. Trump reportedly declined the request.

When asked whether Trump is a friend, she stated that "Friend is a loose term." She has been critical of Trump's role during the 2021 storming of the United States Capitol, saying that she was angry that Donald Trump took no action to protect Vice President Pence, adding, "When I tell you I'm angry, it's an understatement."

In February 2021 Haley stated:

"Most of Mr. Trump's major policies were outstanding and made America stronger, safer and more prosperous. Many of his actions since the election were wrong and will be judged harshly by history...I will gladly defend the bulk of the Trump record and his determination to shake up the corrupt status quo in Washington."
— The Wall Street Journal op-ed

Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikki_Haley

[Jaga]

Pieter and Karl, I am glad she is running. In this time of the election Trump probably lost a chance to be elected for a president.