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“See you on the 15th,” Nikki Haley says in a tweet pinned to the top of her Twitter page.
That’s when the former South Carolina governor who served as ambassador to the United Nations during former President Donald Trump’s administration is expected to declare her candidacy for president, joining Trump as the only major Republicans to date to have launched White House campaigns.
Since Trump jumped into the presidential race in mid-November, it’s been a field of one in the hunt for the GOP nomination. But Haley’s entry — at an event in Charleston, South Carolina — could open the flood gates, with other likely Republican White House hopefuls launching their own campaigns in the weeks and months ahead.
“While there’s clearly been some reluctance to get in early, she’s setting herself apart and creating an opportunity for herself to define herself early, to establish her campaign,” longtime New Hampshire based national Republican strategist Jim Merrill told Fox News.
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Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, who served as ambassador to the United Nations during former President Donald Trump’s administration, speaks at the Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) Annual Leadership Meeting in Las Vegas, Nevada, US, on Saturday, Nov. 19, 2022. (Ronda Churchill/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
“I expect that we’ll see other candidates get in soon, over the next few months, and that we’ll have a robust primary field,” Merrill, a veteran of numerous GOP presidential campaigns, predicted.
While the presidential campaign is starting at a slower pace than in previous cycles, the action is starting to pick up.
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