Former U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley kicked off her presidential campaign Wednesday, plunging into competition against Donald Trump with a speech that sought an implicit contrast but stopped short of directly attacking the former president.
The current strategies echo the 2016 primary, when many Republicans avoided going after Trump fearing a direct conflict and alienating a base of support that could eventually be up grabs. Trump won the nomination thanks in no small measure to fractured resistance to him in the party as many rivals sought to sidestep him.
Haley repeatedly criticized President Biden and Vice President Harris by name on Wednesday, saying, “Our leaders are failing us. And no one embodies that failure more than Joe Biden.” As she pitched herself as the future of Republican leadership, Haley pinned the country’s faults on Biden, socialism and “self loathing.”
“We won’t win the fight for the 21st Century if we keep trusting politicians from the 20th Century,” she said.At one point, Haley offered a pointed message to GOP primary voters. “I have a particular message for my fellow Republicans: We’ve lost the popular vote in seven of the last eight presidential elections,” she said, repeating a theme from her announcement video. Trump lost the popular vote twice.
The primary field is expected to expand in the coming months, and Haley enters the race as an underdog — a position her supporters say she is used to overcoming. Haley frequently remarks she has never lost an election, ever since her first uphill campaign for the state House of Representatives against a longtime incumbent.Haley has shifted her posture toward Trump over the years, initially criticizing him when he ran in 2016, then joining his administration.
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