Former South Carolina governor and U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley launched her bid for the White House with a video playing to her foreign policy bona fides and stature as a woman of color in the GOP.
that the chief hurdle Haley faces is that she has no clear constituency in the modern Republican Party.“Haley, despite how good she is on paper, finds herself in that same tier: No one is asking for what she’s selling,” Longwell wrote.
“We were the first Indian family ever to live in Bamberg,” Haley wrote in her 2012 memoir, “Can’t Is Not an Option.” “In a time and place that only knew black and white, we didn’t fit either category.” South Carolina state Rep. Nikki Haley during her bid to become South Carolina's first female governor.
Gender was an issue as well. As soon as polls showed Haley in the lead, unsubstantiated rumors of extramarital affairs began to surface in the press — accusations that were “more believable in the eyes of some voters,” Haley wrote in her memoir, because “I was a young woman.” Still, for most of her governorship — she was reelected in 2014 — Haley, true to her tea party reputation, was hardly a civil rights crusader. She refused to expand Medicaid coverage under the Affordable Care Act.
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