United States President Joe Biden won the Democratic presidential primary in Nevada on Tuesday, whereas in the Republican party Indian American Nikki Haley faced an embarrassing defeat at the hands of 'None of These Candidates'.
Indian American Nikki Haley is the only Republican presidential aspirant who can defeat President Joe Biden in the November 2024 polls, a CNN poll has revealed.
Indian-American Nikki Haley suspended her presidential campaign on Wednesday after being defeated in 15 states across the United States on Super Tuesday, paving the way for a rematch between her rival Donald Trump and incumbent Joe Biden in the November elections.
The two-term governor from South Carolina, Haley, 51, is trailing by more than 30 points against former president Donald Trump in her home state where the Republican presidential primary is scheduled for February 23.
She is the first Republican to challenge former US president Donald Trump in his 2024 bid for the White House.
Indian-American Republican leader Nikky Haley has endorsed her former boss Donald Trump as the party's candidate for the presidential election, delivering the message of unity after their bitter rivalry during the presidential primary.
Haley, 51, received 1,274 votes (62.9 per cent) against 676 votes (33.2 per cent) received by her main rival and former President Trump.
In her speech to officially launch her 2024 US presidential bid, Haley leaned on her experience at the UN, her background as the child of Indian immigrants.
If she wins in November, Haley will be the second Indian-American to be governor of an American state after Bobby Jindal in Louisiana, not a small achievement for a community which accounts for less than one per cent of the entire American population.
At a working luncheon with ambassadors from 15 member countries of the UNSC recently, Trump joked about 'replacing' Haley.
The Indian-American presidential aspirant also said that New Delhi has played smart in the current global situation and stayed close with Russia.
China has spent half a century plotting to defeat America and in some respects, the Chinese military is already at par with the US armed forces, Haley said in a major policy speech on the economy in the key early primary State of New Hampshire on Friday.
Trump's attack against Haley, a daughter of Indian immigrants who served as his UN ambassador, comes days before a hotly contested New Hampshire primary that could determine the trajectory of the party's presidential nomination contest.
Though the people of South Carolina have stood behind her, the establishment is against Nikki Haley, including the powerful media, points out George Joseph
Indian-American Nikki Haley, whose bid for the governorship of South Carolina is marred by allegations of extra-marital affair, suffered a setback on Thursday when former vice president Dick Cheney endorsed one of her rivals.
'f America isn't racist, why did Namarata Haley feel compelled to change her name to 'Nikki'?'
Indian-American Governor-elect of South Carolina Nikki Haley met Barack Obama on Thursday and asked him to scrap the health care bill, but the United States President rejected her appeal. "He (Obama) said as long as he was President, he would not," Haley was quoted as saying by the Gannett Washington Bureau after she met Obama at the White House on Thursday along with other newly elected Governors.
Prominent Indian-American politician Nikki Haley launched her presidential campaign on Tuesday, becoming the first Republican to challenge former US President Donald Trump in his 2024 bid for the White House.
Dubbed as "Jobs Governor", Haley turned South Carolina's economy around during her tenure as governor and transforming the state into a manufacturing powerhouse. She cut taxes, repealed burdensome regulations, and turned South Carolina into "the Beast of the Southeast". Under her leadership, figures note, the state's unemployment rate hit a 15-year low, and when she left office, South Carolina was at full employment.
'Scuttling 25 years of momentum with the only country that can serve as a counterweight to Chinese dominance in Asia would be a strategic disaster.'
Indian-origin Republican leader Nikki Haley on Wednesday asserted that like the erstwhile Soviet Union, Communist China will also end up on the "ash heap of history."
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday met Indian-American South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, one of the brightest stars of the Republican Party, and discussed areas of possible cooperation including investment opportunities in India.
Representative Nikki Haley has announced her intention to seek the Republican nomination for Governor of South Carolina, making her the second Indian American after Bobby Jindal of Louisiana to be a serious contestant for the highest post in a state.
According to the Washington Times, Haley made the revelation while speaking at an event to help promote a study called Silent Tears, which provides the state with recommendations for improving child abuse prevention and response.
Prominent Indian-American Republican leader Nikki Haley has said that she thinks she can be the "new leader" who can take the country in a new direction and the United States cannot have a second term under Joe Biden as president.
'India is cosying up to Xi Jinping. They don't need the Russian oil. It's a refining profiteering scheme.'
In a sharp attack on Barack Obama who is seeking re-election, Indian-American governor of South Carolina Nikki Haley has charged that the president has failed to handle America's problems and skipped a White House dinner.
According to Haley, the Biden administration resumed military aid to Pakistan, though it's home to at least a dozen terrorist organisations and its government is deeply in hock to China.
Indian-American Governor of South Carolina Nikki Haley announced on Tuesday that she would run for the post again.
'My goal is to show people that I am going to be there to represent everyone. I appreciate and will take all the support that comes my way, but at the end of the day, I am going to work hard to represent all people of South Carolina.' Nikki Haley spells out her priorities.
With just three days left for her crucial run-off for the Republican governor's nomination from South Carolina, American-Indian aspirant Nikki Haley received a major boost in her electoral prospects with an endorsement by the blogger who had alleged to have affair with her.
Nikki Haley becomes the first Indian-American to serve on a Cabinet rank position in any presidential administration in the US.
She said that America spent $46 billion on foreign aid last year, which is given to countries like China, Pakistan, and Iraq.
As election day approached and the fight reached its final stages, Representative Nikki Haley, the Republican candidate for governor of South Carolina, marches ahead with sizeable leads in opinion polls.
In an exclusive interview with rediff.com the Indian-American South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley talks about the purpose of her India visit, the 2012 Presidential polls, her relation with Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, her strong objections to United States President Barack Obama's health care plans and more.
Winding up the gruelling campaign season, the final event was held on her home turf in Gilbert, Lexington County, where the Haley family lives. A few hundred people turned up to hear possibly the next leaders of the state government, including Haley, Lieutenant Governor candidate Ken Ard, attorney general candidate Alan Wilson, Congressman Joe Wilson and others.
Haley, during remarks at the 2018 Alfred Smith Dinner in New York, mocked the president for getting laughed at the UN General Assembly last month -- a spectacle that both she and the US president said was intentional, New York Daily Times reported.
A major American news network mistakenly aired the map of Punjab while announcing that Indian-origin South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley would be a key speaker during the Republican National Convention in Tampa later in August. The CNN made this error in the midst of it covering the shooting incident at a gurudwara in Wisconsin. Haley's parents are from Punjab.
The daughter of Indian immigrants from Punjab, Haley was the first woman tapped by Trump for a top-level administration post during his transition to the White House.
Democrats have accused North Carolina's Indian-American Governor Nikki Haley of listing her race as "white" in her voter registration form in 2001 and playing on it for political convenience
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