Nikki Haley’s husband begins Africa deployment as she campaigns for 2024 GOP nomination

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) – Nikki Haley’s husband deployed Saturday for a yearlong stint in Africa with the South Carolina Army National Guard, a mission that can embody many of the the rest of her marketing campaign for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination.

“He’s always been my rock,” she stated after a deployment ceremony for about 200 troopers at The Citadel, a navy school in Charleston. “We have both lived a life of service, and so when he goes off to deploy, my support is completely with him. If I happen to be running for president, his support is completely with me. … We will continue to stay in touch as best we can.”

Maj. Michael Haley is being deployed as a employees officer with the 218th Maneuver Enhancement Brigade, which the National Guard says is offering assist within the Horn of Africa.

The United Nations, the place Nikki Haley served as Donald Trump’s ambassador for 2 years, says that area is dealing with the worst drought in 40 years, with greater than 43.3 million individuals in want of help in Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya, and greater than half of these missing entry to enough meals.

Last month, a high-level U.N. convention raised lower than $1 billion of the greater than $5 billion organizers have been hoping for to assist greater than 30 million individuals within the Horn of Africa deal with the local weather disaster and mass displacement after years of battle.

Nikki Haley, who can be a former South Carolina governor, has been extremely vital of President Joe Biden’s efficiency as commander in chief. She has spoken out in opposition to his administration’s efforts to broaden variety within the navy, complaining they have been weakening the power and hampering recruitment, although the Army has stated that the true drawback is that many younger individuals don’t see enlistment as secure or profession path.

She has additionally pledged to make cuts in $46 billion in international support to international locations that she says “hate America.”

Michael Haley, the candidate’s husband of 26 years, has been a continuing at his spouse’s marketing campaign occasions since she turned a White House candidate. During his deployment, the marketing campaign stated the couple’s college-age son, Nalin, will probably be taking up that function.

Nikki Haley ceaselessly mentions her standing as a navy spouse. Joining the Guard as an officer in 2006, her husband made his first abroad deployment January 2013, when she was halfway by her first time period as governor, and their youngsters have been age 10 and 14.

“He left me as a single mom governor, but we’re still married,” Haley stated throughout a current marketing campaign look in Greer, South Carolina. She went on to critique the Biden administration’s chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021.

Citing the present deployment throughout a CNN city corridor in Iowa this month, Haley referred to as it the beginning of “a yearlong prayer that they’re effective and that they’re strong and that they come home safely.”

She has additionally referenced her husband’s upcoming deployment when it comes to the U.S. Department of Justice’s case in opposition to 2024 rival Trump on expenses of mishandling categorized paperwork, together with nationwide protection data.

Arguing that “two things can be be true a the same time” and echoing many Republicans’ arguments that “the DOJ and FBI have lost all credibility with the American people,” Haley stated on Fox News this previous week that “if this indictment is true, if what it says is actually the case, President Trump was incredibly reckless with our national security.”

“My husband is about to deploy this weekend,” Haley went on. “This puts all of our military men and women in danger, if you are going to talk about what our military is capable of, or how we would go about invading or doing something with one of our enemies.”

On Saturday, Haley stated her husband’s service has partly framed her viewpoint on international coverage and navy technique.

“We don’t want to go into a way that’s going to put our men and women at harm’s danger. They are going because Africa is a hotbed,” Haley stated. “We’ve always known that when our men and women go overseas, it’s to keep us safe here at home.”

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