Nikki Haley
Former Governor of South Carolina
Nikki Haley dropped out of the presidential race on Mar. 6, 2024. This page is no longer being updated.
She supports a 15-week national ban but also calls for more contraception access.
If we want to talk about a federal law,
let’s talk about consensus.
Let’s humanize the situation rather than
demonizing the situation.
Can’t we all agree that we don’t want to see
late-term abortions?
Can’t we all agree that we should encourage
more adoptions and better-quality adoptions so
those kids feel more love and not less?
Can’t we agree there should be more access to contraception?
Can’t we agree that doctors and nurses who don’t believe
in abortion shouldn’t have to perform them?
And can’t we agree that any woman that has an abortion
shouldn’t go to jail and get the death penalty?
Can’t we start there?
She supports carbon-capture technology but has denounced efforts to reduce emissions.
Nikki Haley, a former governor of South Carolina, has acknowledged that climate change is real and caused by humans, but she has generally rejected governmental efforts to reduce emissions. Her advocacy group Stand for America said that “liberal ideas would cost trillions and destroy our economy.”
She says Biden hasn’t done enough, but has said little about what she would do differently.
I don’t think we should be sending Ukraine money.
I don’t think, I don’t think we need to put troops
on the ground.
But what we do need to do is get with our allies,
and make sure they have the equipment and the ammunition
they need to win because if Ukraine wins this war,
it will send a message to China and Taiwan.
It will send a message to North Korea
testing ballistic missiles.
It will send a message to Iran.
She is largely aligned with the bulk of the field and supports most of Trump’s policies.
On illegal immigration,
we will do what we did in South Carolina
across the country.
We will do national mandatory e-verify,
where every business has to prove
that the people that they are hiring are here legally.
And we will go back to Title 42.
But most importantly, we will stop “catch and release,”
and we will start “catch and deport.”
That is how we will get illegal immigration
taken care of.
While she has aired misgivings about Trump, she mostly avoids running afoul of him.
Nikki Haley, the former governor of South Carolina and former United Nations ambassador, has shifted from an unequivocal denunciation of the first indictment in March to an argument in July that Mr. Trump’s legal troubles were creating an unacceptable distraction.
She opposes any economic cooperation and has left the door open to military force.
Nikki Haley, who served as United Nations ambassador under Mr. Trump, has called for ending normal trade relations with China until it “stops killing Americans,” a reference to deaths caused by fentanyl. China exports essential ingredients for fentanyl, often to Mexico, where the drug is manufactured in large quantities.
She says she’s more serious about cutting spending than other Republicans.
“It was the Republicans that passed the $2.2 trillion Covid stimulus that started all of this. They went and started giving money to pay people to sit on the couch.”
She has framed transgender rights as a threat to women and has signed a pledge declaring “sex is binary.”
Nikki Haley, the former South Carolina governor and former ambassador to the United Nations, has indicated multiple times that she believes transgender women and girls competing in women’s and girl’s sports is “the women’s issue of our time.” She also suggested on CNN that the presence of transgender girls in locker rooms was to blame for suicidal ideation among teenage girls, a claim no evidence supports.
She supports an impeachment inquiry.
Nikki Haley, the former governor of South Carolina and former United Nations ambassador, endorsed an impeachment inquiry in June.
She has called herself a “union buster” and said she didn’t want unions in her state.
Nikki Haley has suggested that unions would not exist in her ideal world, one of the most absolutist positions in the field.
She says she’s open to cuts for younger Americans.
Nikki Haley, the former governor of South Carolina, has suggested that she would raise the Social Security retirement age for people currently in their 20s in accordance with increases in life expectancy, though she has not given a number. (The retirement age is currently 67 for anyone born in 1960 or later.)
She reduced incarceration and recidivism in South Carolina.
As a presidential candidate, Nikki Haley has mostly stuck to broad promises of supporting the police, getting “illegal guns off the street” and making progressive district attorneys “prosecute according to the law.”
She wants the U.S. to give Israel “whatever” support it needs in responding to Hamas.
ISRAEL-HAMAS WAR “I would tell Israel, whatever it is you need to not just get your country back, to eliminate the terrorists, we should do,” Nikki Haley said in Iowa after Hamas’s attack in October. She emphasized that blank-check endorsement of aid at a Republican debate in November, saying the United States should “support Israel with whatever they need, whenever they need it” and adding: “The last thing we need to do is to tell Israel what to do. The only thing we should be doing is supporting them.”
She said Biden’s victory was legitimate, but has played up the risk of voter fraud more broadly.
Nikki Haley has acknowledged that Mr. Biden won the 2020 election and has said on multiple occasions that Mr. Trump’s efforts to overturn the results would “be judged harshly by history.” At the Republican debate in August, when candidates were asked whether they believed Mike Pence had done the right thing by overseeing the certification of Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s victory, she said, “I do think that Vice President Pence did the right thing, and I do think that we need to give him credit for that.”
She wants to shrink the Education Department and offer public vouchers for private schooling.
Nikki Haley has described her decision not to call for eliminating the department, as several other candidates have, as a practical matter: While Congress would be unlikely to vote to do that, she said in September, she could “get rid of all the guts.”
She has spoken broadly about her health care plans, and she opposes expanding Medicaid.
Nikki Haley has said on multiple occasions, including at a Republican debate in September, that it is unacceptable for the United States to have some of the most expensive health care in the world.