Nikki Haley Announces Presidential Bid

In the announcement, the 51-year-old pushed for the need for “a new generation of leadership” – a nod to the advanced ages of Trump and President Joe Biden.

She emphasized her background as the daughter of Indian immigrants and the first female governor of South Carolina. Haley suggested, too, that she will lean into Republican-stoked cultural wars and social issues.
 
Republicans have lost the popular vote in seven out of the last eight presidential elections. That has to change,” Haley said in her announcement video.
 
This is going to be her chance to audition for the VP role. She was Governor of South Carolina and U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. so she has the chops. We'll see how she does.
 
Nikki Haley and the manipulation of the model minority myth


Born Nimrata Randhawa to Indian immigrants from Punjab, Haley goes by her childhood nickname, Nikki. Though she grew up in a Sikh household, she has publicly emphasized her conversion to Christianity. She was also accused of listing her race as "white" on a 2001 voter registration card.


Haley's on-and-off relationship with her Indian American heritage is what sociologists call strategic identity deployment. "It's the idea that there are ways of presenting your identity strategically to connect with and gain favor among particular audiences," said Hajar Yazdiha, an assistant professor of sociology at University of Southern California. "Among high status, powerful elites, tapping in and out of an identity is really a political strategy."

https://www.insider.com/nikki-haley...ection-south-asian-model-minority-myth-2023-2
 
guno said:
Republicans have lost the popular vote in seven out of the last eight presidential elections. That has to change,” Haley said in her announcement video.
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you can't lose a popular vote. you lose things you compete for. no competition for popular vote occurs
 
guno said:
Republicans have lost the popular vote in seven out of the last eight presidential elections. That has to change,” Haley said in her announcement video.
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Lol, I think it’s cute that she thinks she can win the popular vote.
 
Sirthinksalot said:
DeSantis Haley would be a good ticket
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Agreed. I really liked her when she was Governor and I was thinking she was on a trajectory to the White House but as I've followed her more I don't think she's ready for it (considering only one person can be President that's not meant as an insult) but she does have the chops to be VP.

The other top candidate to me, assuming DeSantis in the nominee, is Tim Scott. Dude is Reaganesque in his love of country and optimism. People pick VP's to compliment the ticket. People had concerns about Obama's youth and foreign policy inexperience so he picked a guy deemed strong in those qualities in Biden. Trump had to win over the evangelical base so he picked Pence. DeSantis pretty much has the Trump vote locked up and now he needs to win back the people Trump lost in 2020 (like suburban women) with someone viewed as not just a second coming of Trump (liberals will try to paint people like Haley and Scott as all in #MAGA types but that's inevitable no matter who is selected).
 
cawacko said:
This is going to be her chance to audition for the VP role. She was Governor of South Carolina and U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. so she has the chops. We'll see how she does.
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Exactly, and sell a book

She was already once part of the Trump team, and would serve as an appeal to the middle class suburban house wife vote the Trump alienates
 
cawacko said:
Agreed. I really liked her when she was Governor and I was thinking she was on a trajectory to the White House but as I've followed her more I don't think she's ready for it (considering only one person can be President that's not meant as an insult) but she does have the chops to be VP.

The other top candidate to me, assuming DeSantis in the nominee, is Tim Scott. Dude is Reaganesque in his love of country and optimism. People pick VP's to compliment the ticket. People had concerns about Obama's youth and foreign policy inexperience so he picked a guy deemed strong in those qualities in Biden. Trump had to win over the evangelical base so he picked Pence. DeSantis pretty much has the Trump vote locked up and now he needs to win back the people Trump lost in 2020 (like suburban women) with someone viewed as not just a second coming of Trump (liberals will try to paint people like Haley and Scott as all in #MAGA types but that's inevitable no matter who is selected).
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You mean MTG ain’t his pick? She’s going to be pissed, he’ll have to insure she gets a good job if he wins, maybe AG, unqualified, but neither was a number of Trump appointees along the line

Scott would be good choice for Trump, help him with the black vote, or the women who is Governor of South Dakota
 
guno said:
Nikki Haley and the manipulation of the model minority myth


Born Nimrata Randhawa to Indian immigrants from Punjab, Haley goes by her childhood nickname, Nikki. Though she grew up in a Sikh household, she has publicly emphasized her conversion to Christianity. She was also accused of listing her race as "white" on a 2001 voter registration card.


Haley's on-and-off relationship with her Indian American heritage is what sociologists call strategic identity deployment. "It's the idea that there are ways of presenting your identity strategically to connect with and gain favor among particular audiences," said Hajar Yazdiha, an assistant professor of sociology at University of Southern California. "Among high status, powerful elites, tapping in and out of an identity is really a political strategy."

https://www.insider.com/nikki-haley...ection-south-asian-model-minority-myth-2023-2
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He passed away a few years ago, gods rest his soul, but my friend Hari from India absolutely loathed Indian immigrants who were given lovely names at birth only to Americanize them. Like Bobby Jindal and Nikki Haley, in particular. He had a special disgust for Jindal, whose official governor portrait makes him look like a White guy. Anything to fit in with Southern prejudices, I guess.

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archives said:
You mean MTG ain’t his pick? She’s going to be pissed, he’ll have to insure she gets a good job if he wins, maybe AG, unqualified, but neither was a number of Trump appointees along the line

Scott would be good choice for Trump, help him with the black vote, or the women who is Governor of South Dakota
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Trump isn't going to be the nominee but Tim Scott would likely move the needle very little, if at all, with the black vote. It's about the college educated suburban white women vote if we're really breaking it down. That's where Trump lost and who DeSantis will have to win back.
 
ThatOwlWoman said:
He passed away a few years ago, gods rest his soul, but my friend Hari from India absolutely loathed Indian immigrants who were given lovely names at birth only to Americanize them. Like Bobby Jindal and Nikki Haley, in particular. He had a special disgust for Jindal, whose official governor portrait makes him look like a White guy. Anything to fit in with Southern prejudices, I guess.

n4TBs5p.jpg
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How do you Americanize a name given to you at birth?
 
cawacko said:
Agreed. I really liked her when she was Governor and I was thinking she was on a trajectory to the White House but as I've followed her more I don't think she's ready for it (considering only one person can be President that's not meant as an insult) but she does have the chops to be VP.

The other top candidate to me, assuming DeSantis in the nominee, is Tim Scott. Dude is Reaganesque in his love of country and optimism. People pick VP's to compliment the ticket. People had concerns about Obama's youth and foreign policy inexperience so he picked a guy deemed strong in those qualities in Biden. Trump had to win over the evangelical base so he picked Pence. DeSantis pretty much has the Trump vote locked up and now he needs to win back the people Trump lost in 2020 (like suburban women) with someone viewed as not just a second coming of Trump (liberals will try to paint people like Haley and Scott as all in #MAGA types but that's inevitable no matter who is selected).
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She could do it, put she should stop pretending she does not understand what socialism is. She is the best of the Republicans lately.
 
cawacko said:
Trump isn't going to be the nominee but Tim Scott would likely move the needle very little, if at all, with the black vote. It's about the college educated suburban white women vote if we're really breaking it down. That's where Trump lost and who DeSantis will have to win back.
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I still believe that if there are at least three candidates who get more than 15% of the vote, Trump will win the nomination.
 
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