NY, August 25 : During this 1st night of the Republican Domestic Convention (RNC), previous US Ambassador to the UN & breakout Indian-American politician Nikki Haley pushed residents to re-elect President Donald Trump for 4 extra yrs. within the Nov polls & slammed the Democratic Party for creating it “fashionable” to call America a “racist” nation.
Haley’s prime time speech on Mon. night comes a week after California(CA) Senator Kamala Harris made biography becoming the 1st Black & Indian-American lady to be chosen for a main party’s presidential ticket.
Harris is the Democratic nominee for Vice President within the 2024 US election.
In a her speech, Haley, the previous SC Governor, stated that “in much of the Democratic Party, it’s as of now fashionable to say that America is racist”.
She recounted just how states like her local SC have risen up from racist violence, informing: “America is not a racist nation”.
Rebutting the idea that Trump is racist is amongst the core messages the President’s campaign is pushing on the RNC platform all week.
“America is not a racist nation. This is personal for me. I’m the proud daughter of Indian immigrants. My parents never gave in to grievance & hate. My dad wore a turban. I has been a brown lady in a black & white globe,” Haley stated, seeking to weave an upbeat immigration theme into the Trump re-election pitch.
“America is a post that is a work (5) in progress.”
Haley taken the audience return to the 2015 shooting of 9 Bible research attendees by a white person in a historical Black church in Charleston.
Haley clarified just how SC didn’t erupt into the kinda violence witnessed after previous brutality over African-Americans, notably George Floyd’s killing & most just recently the shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin(WI), on Sun..
As Haley spoke, protesters spilled into the streets in Kenosha, the country’s latest flashpoint in a summer of constant racial unrest.
Republicans are framing these rallies as the kinda “confusion” that a Democratic win going to unleash across America’s cities.
Haley is witnessed as one such raising stars within the Republican Party, with a previous move return to SC & a book that has sparked speculation regarding a 2024 run.
She stated on Mon. night that Trump & Vice President Mike Pence “have my help”.
In her address, she also tore into Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden’s campaign schedules, describing in detail what she named a “radical left” future fueled by “anarchy”, “riots” & “quash culture”.
Republicans opened the convention with grim cautions regarding America’s future in case Trump doesn’t win a 2nd term, casting him as a protector of religious freedom, the right to bear arms, independent thinking, freedom of speech & much extra.
Taken together, both Harris & Haley’s presence in their own parties’ convention speaks to the steady raise of Indian-Americans in US politics.
Already, talk of a Harris versus Haley match-up in 2024 has started swirling.
Haley has been the 1st Indian-American to service within the US cabinet when Trump appointed her as the Permanent Representative to the UN.
An actor of the Republican Party, she left the post in the end of 2018 & was active in politics. There was speculation regarding her racing for president in 2024.
A poll by Leger previously this mo identified that she ranked 3rd as the choice of Republicans to be the party’s candidate in 2024 with 11 percent help, behind Pence with 31 percent & the President’s son, Donald Trump Jr, with 17 percent.
Haley had become the 1st lady & non-White to be elected Governor of SC in 2010 & the 2nd Indian-American to be elected to the workplace after fellow Republican Bobby Jindal of Louisiana(LA).
Republicans going to spend the week trying to influence the American citizens that Trump deserves 4 extra yrs..
His own supporters are casting the 2024 election as a choice between the American values of freedom & what they cast as the “radical left” globe of the Biden- Harris ticket.
The Republican convention runs using Thu. & includes a presidential speech from that White Home South Lawn & a vice presidential address from Fort McHenry in Baltimore.