It's official: Nikki Haley running for president. Formal announcement Feb. 15

[RandySF]

Cementing what has been in the works for months, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley will formally announce she is running for president and will seek the Republican nomination for her party’s 2024 ticket, The Post and Courier has learned.

According to an invitation soon going out to her backers, Haley’s advertised “special announcement” will come Feb. 15 at the The Shed at the Charleston Visitor Center in downtown Charleston, an open air but covered gathering spot that could draw hundreds of supporters into the heart of the city’s tourism district.

The confirmation she entering the race came from a member of Haley’s inner circle Jan. 31.

Haley has teased at running for the White House for months, increasing her footprint on social media and in national interviews that she was leaning toward an official bid.

Long identified as harboring presidential intentions for the past decade, she becomes the second announced profile Republican looking to knock off Democratic President Joe Biden next year, just behind her former boss from when she was U.N. ambassador, previous White House occupant Donald Trump.

Haley famously said earlier she would not seek to challenge Trump if he ran again, but her message has since shifted to say the country needs to look toward a different path.

https://www.postandcourier.com/politics/its-official-nikki-haley-running-for-president-formal-announcement-feb-15/article_761b0b96-8c42-11ed-afdd-d330c30e8be3.html

[JuJuChen]

1. popcorn/circus here we go again folks

[Diamond_Dog]

2. She will get nowhere fast.

[tanyev]

5. We'll see if she even makes it to Feb. 15th.

[peppertree]

19. +1

Nimrata suffers from you might call 'inverted paranoia':

She goes around under the insane delusion that people actually like her.

[Lovie777]

3. Another RWer......................

RWers galore, the madness continues. Nightmare continues.

[sheshe2]

4. Nick Nick is running?

Wow, what a clown show that is going to be.

[BigmanPigman]

6. Bye, bye Felicia.

[Buckeyeblue]

7. It's a great way to raise a lot of money

And get a great deal of attention.

[2naSalit]

8. That might...

Last a couple weeks.

[jcgoldie]

9. Trump starts trashing her in 3...2...1...

[Laura PourMeADrink]

11. Read he did not. And she called him to tell him. It surmised he

Is either misogynistic ( a woman couldn't beat him) or she's doing it for exposure and will be his running mate. Although he did have to throw in that "she said if I ran, she wouldn't"

No one, not even a Mother Teresa type could make him look normal.

[AngryOldDem]

14. He said she should "listen to her heart."

[Laura PourMeADrink]

25. Lol. Prerequisite that you have a heart to know a heart exists?

[GoCubsGo]

17. He won't be the first to trash her.

Right wing troll, Jack Posobiec, and a bunch of other wing nutjobs were already at it last night on Twitter. Republicans aren't going to vote for a woman at the top of the ticket. They just want them as an attractive side piece.

[Funtatlaguy]

10. So this looks like the clown car lineup:

Trump
DeSantis
Haley
Bolton
Pompeo


I’m sure there will be more. Possibly Pence. And for Trump, the more the merrier.
If 4-5 gain stay somewhat viable about halfway through the primaries, Trump can win the nomination with about 30% of the GOP electorate.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

12. Bolton? Wow... Hope he gets a style makeover. Can't even look at him. nt

[Aristus]

22. Neither can I. In a case of 'looks can be deceiving',

Bolton looks exactly like my late father-in-law, who was the nicest, sweetest person in the world.

I hate that, and it just makes me miss my f-i-l all the more.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

23. Wow.. you just made me totally nostalgic and

missing my dad and FIL. Know you didn't mean to, just a trigger I guess. Makes me want to not make fun of how people look tho. Thanks for that!

[Aristus]

24. I don't think you were making fun.

DFT aside, most candidates for the Presidency have to have a camera-friendly look, and Bolton doesn't. His looks worsen when you know what a hate-filled monster he is.

My father-in-law's sweetness softened his less-than-stellar looks.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

28. Thank you so much for saying optics are important. We usually cant

aay that anymore

[Polybius]

16. I fully expect Trump and DeSantis to knock everyone out by the first primaries

After that, it will be a real battle.

[Elessar Zappa]

29. I hope Trump destroys Ron's maga standing.

I hate Trump but DeSantis is a dangerous asshole who must be stopped.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

33. Eternal debate huh. Who is worse?

[Laura PourMeADrink]

31. And Rs, the PTB anyway, want to boot TFG out. Thought it

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was obvious that he was a loser. But he's beating JB in latest ( albeit way too early, an indictment would help) polls

[Polybius]

35. What's PTB?

Google isn't helping much.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

36. :) powers that be

[Johonny]

39. I think some might look at Biden's poll numbers and wait for 2028

Rushing head long to run against an incumbent isn't as attractive as running for an open seat.

[niyad]

13. Interesting that she has chosen Susan B. Anthony's birthday to formally

announce. Or, she could have chosen V-Day, ending violence against women day. But I suspect that women's rights are not part of her agenda.

[Polybius]

15. Bolton and Haley: The return of the Neo-Cons

Hopefully Republican voters are forever done with that awful, warmongering wing.

[Yavin4]

30. With Putin controlling most of that party,

the Neo-Cons will be on ice there for a very, very long time to come.

[Polybius]

34. As long as the Neo-Cons are kept away from power, I'm glad they're on thin ice

But they remain a large part of the House and the Senate (although dwindling).

[Elessar Zappa]

37. But the current magas are worse than neocons, imo.

[Polybius]

38. That's a popular opinion, but not one that I share

I think W Bush did more damage than even Trump. We're still paying for all of his wars based on lies. I do not want no-fly-zones over Syria, like the neo-cons proposed in the 2016 debates.

[Martin68]

18. It would be interesting to see Haley and Harris run against each other.

[Jilly_in_VA]

20. Nimrata Randhawa

is "too brown" and "too foreign" for at least 50% of the "base", and besides, she's a woman, and you know what they said about Hillary when she ran. So no. Maybe they'll think about letting her run as a V/P candidate. Nice "token" ya got there, Repugs. But she's not white enough to satisfy them as a presidential candidate, and that's the sad truth of it.

[Pompoy]

21. Improves Trump's chances

To win the nomination, and that improves the Democrats' chances in 2024.

[Takket]

26. what a fucking fraud

if anyone in the media actually did there job the only thing they would ask her "how can anyone take you seriously as a candidate, especially running against drumpf, after years, of watching to you tongue bathe him and telling us he's the greatest president ever?"

[AZLD4Candidate]

27. The rest of the country views this with a collective "Nikki Who" then goes back to watching

paint dry.

[Samrob]

32. Who will be the first to ask to see her birth certificate? nt