Republican Nikki Haley, former ambassador to the UN and former governor of South Carolina, made her debut this Wednesday as a candidate for the 2024 presidential elections in the United States with a provocative proposal clearly directed against her rival in the party and former boss, Donald Trump, and against the current president and possible candidate for re-election, Joe Biden.
At the official announcement of his election bid, Haley called for "mental capacity tests for all politicians over the age of 75." Trump is 76 and Biden has just turned 80. She was born 51 years ago to immigrant parents from India, an age and origin of which she boasted in equal parts.
"America is not past its prime, it's just that our politicians are past theirs," she told hundreds of cheering supporters at the Charleston Visitor Center in the city of Charleston, capital of South Carolina. “In the United States that I see, the permanent politician will eventually retire,” she added.
Alluding to the electoral failures of the Republican Party in general and of Donald Trump and his protégés in particular, Haley lamented that the conservatives have lost the popular vote in seven of the last eight elections. This "has ended today," she declared. And he formulated a first electoral slogan: "If you are tired of losing, trust a new generation."
The one who was governor of her state from January 2011 to January 2017 and ambassador to the United Nations in 2017 and 2018 is the second official candidate for the 2024 elections after Trump announced his candidacy last November. Haley has gone ahead of the one who is also emerging as a powerful conservative candidate for those elections, the governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis.
