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“With All Due Respect,” Nikki Haley’s Soul Is Hijacked
With all due respect, Nikki Haley, an Indian American — her parents are from the country where Christopher Columbus thought he had landed — former governor of South Carolina, and former Ambassador to the United Nations soul appears hijacked by ambition.
At least it seems that her commonsense has become compromised perhaps to sell copies of her book, With All Due Respect, and a desire to win the Republican nomination in 2024.
Following a successful tenure as governor of South Carolina, where she oversaw the removal of the Confederate flag, Haley served with distinction in her role as President Donald J. Trump’s appointee as the Ambassador to the United Nations.
When Haley resigned from her ambassador’s post, the sky could not hold her unlimited potential. She shone brightly in Republican Party circles. The 2024 nomination looked like hers for the taking and with Kamala Harris’ withdrawal from the 2020 Democratic Primaries, making her perhaps the first woman with Indian American heritage, elected president in history.
The clear path to the nomination all changed when Haley determined although she was a rising star among Republicans, she could not gain the favor of the Trump wing of the Republican Party without passing a Trump purity test.
