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South Carolina’s Nikki Haley to launch 2024 presidential campaign, joining Trump in nomination hunt

Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, who served as ambassador to the United Nations during former President Donald Trump’s administration, will join Trump in the race for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination.

Multiple sources confirm to Fox News Digital that Haley will formally declare her candidacy for the White House at an event in Charleston, South Carolina, on Feb. 15, with an invitation soon going out to her supporters. News of Haley’s announcement was first reported by the Post and Courier newspaper in South Carolina.

Political pundits have long viewed Haley as a potential GOP presidential contender, as she crisscrossed the country the past two years through her political group Stand for America, helping fellow Republicans running in the 2022 elections. Haley’s travels brought her numerous times to Iowa, New Hampshire, and Nevada, which hold the first, second and fourth contests in the Republican presidential nominating calendar. Haley’s home state of South Carolina votes third in the GOP primary schedule.

She will be a good candidate. She’s pretty conservative on her positions. Abortion nuts rate her a 0%. The NRA rates her 100%. Very much pro-business. Is against illegal immigration. She’s pro-environment but against the climate crisis scam. I’m sure the Bulwark, Lincoln Project, and other Never Trump groups/people will come out against her for serving under Trump, meaning she’s a great candidate.

Speaking with reporters aboard his plane on Saturday as he flew from a campaign speech in New Hampshire to a leadership kickoff in South Carolina, Trump said that Haley had called him to discuss running for the White House.

“Go by your heart if you want to run,” Trump said he told Haley. And he said he told her she “should do it.”

But then he appeared to take a dig at Haley, noting that she had previously “publicly” said she wouldn’t seek the White House in 2024 if Trump ran again.

So, yeah, now she’s going to have to deal with Trump’s attacks. Which is a problem, because, as I’ve said, if he doesn’t win the GOP primaries he’s going to burn everyone else down.

Oh, and

(Breitbart) Former Gov. Larry Hogan (R-MD) said Tuesday on FNC’s “Your World” that he was seriously considering running for president in 2024.

On the 2024 presidential election, anchor Neil Cavuto said, “There’s talk that you will be among those candidates. Is that true?”

Hogan said, “I’m certainly giving it serious consideration. We’ve been really successful 30 miles outside of Washington, where everything appears to be broken and nothing but dysfunction. I got them to cut taxing eight years in a row, and I had the biggest economic turnaround in America. But we’re taking a close look at it.”

He’d still be better than Biden or any Democrat, but, he’s also really squishy as a Conservative. He was popular in a squishy state like Maryland, but, he loved him some COVID lockdowns and restrictions, and, being a staunch, unhinged Never Trumper, that’s a decent sized number of Republicans who would not vote for him if he won the primaries. Which, he won’t. But, hey, who thought Trump would win in 2016? Or Romney in 2012? Boring John Kerry in 2004?