EXCLUSIVE: Republican presidential candidate and former governor and ambassador Nikki Haley will unveil her Veterans for Nikki coalition next week during a two-day trip to New Hampshire, the state that hosts the calendar’s first primary and second overall competition. GOP presidential nominations.
And Haley, the only female candidate among the top contenders for the Republican presidential nomination, will also launch a Women for Nikki New Hampshire coalition. The announcements, first shared with Fox News on Thursday, will come as the former two-term South Carolina governor, who later served as ambassador to the United Nations, makes his fourth stint in Granite State since he declared his candidacy for the White House in February.
Nikki’s Honorary Veterans Chair is someone Haley knows quite well — her husband Michael — who is a member of the South Carolina National Guard and a full-time Federal Military Technician. He joined the National Guard after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, and in 2013 became the first spouse of a sitting governor to serve in a combat zone while deployed to Afghanistan.
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Former Ambassador and former Governor of South Carolina Nikki Haley is accompanied by her husband Michael Haley at the inauguration of Governor Henry McMaster, January 11, 2023 in Columbia, SC (Haley’s presidential campaign)
“When my National Guard unit deployed to Afghanistan while Nikki was governor, I had no doubt that our family and our state would be in safe hands,” Michael Haley said in a statement. “Nikki is fearless and has always had the backs of our veterans and our armed forces. As Commander-in-Chief, she will lead with courage and determination.
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Jason Church, a retired U.S. Army captain who lost both his legs in an IED blast during his first deployment to Afghanistan, will also serve on the veterans’ coalition leadership team. “A President Nikki Haley will face threats to the national security of the United States with firmness and courage,” he stressed.
Retired US Army General Don Bolduc introduces Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley during a campaign event in Exeter, New Hampshire, February 16, 2023 (Fox News)
Haley will announce her coalition of veterans next Wednesday, May 24, at a campaign event at VFW Post 1631 in Concord, New Hampshire. The event’s headliner will be retired General Don Bolduc, a New Hampshire native who spent four decades in the military and served ten tours of duty in Afghanistan. Haley made several trips to New Hampshire last fall to support Bolduc as he ran for his second straight Senate bid. Bolduc endorsed Haley after launching his 2024 presidential campaign and featured her at numerous events in New Hampshire.
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Bolduc noted that as governor of South Carolina, Haley “signed into law several bills to help our veterans and ease the transition to civilian life. Ultimately, Nikki Haley will be a Commander-in-Chief we can be proud of. »
Former United Nations Ambassador and former two-term South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, who is running for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, holds a town hall in Salem, New Hampshire, March 28, 2023. (Fox News)
Ahead of the launch of her veterans coalition next Wednesday, Haley will unveil her Women for Nikki New Hampshire coalition. She announced a similar coalition earlier this year in Iowa, the state whose caucuses lead the GOP nomination calendar.
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While in New Hampshire next week, Haley will also headline the latest installment of the Politics and Eggs Lecture Series at Saint Anselm College’s New Hampshire Institute of Politics, which is a must stop for the hopes of the White House for more than two decades. And she will headline a No BS Backyard BBQ in Rye, New Hampshire, hosted by former Senator Scott Brown and his wife, former congressional candidate Gail Huff Brown.