The fourth member of the Trump administration to join the conservative think tank Hudson Institute is the former US ambassador to the UN.
The Walter P. Stern chair at the Hudson Institute will be held by former GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley, the conservative think tank based in Washington, D.C., announced on April 15. The Guardian reports that Hudson has been joined by the fourth member of Trump’s administration, a former South Carolina governor, and the US ambassador to the UN.
“The world is less safe when our policymakers do not confront our adversaries or recognise the value of our alliances. This is the reason Hudson’s work is so important,” the former South Carolina governor and US ambassador to the UN said in a statement. “They think the information needed to support a safe, liberated, and prosperous future should be available to the American people and policymakers. In order to uphold the values that make America the greatest nation on earth, I am looking forward to working with them.”
“The position will enable her to maintain a noteworthy profile as she considers a second presidential bid for 2028,” according to The Hill.
Haley was referred to as “a proven, effective leader on both foreign and domestic policy” by John P. Walters, president and CEO of Hudson. He said that despite the “worldwide political upheaval,” Haley has “remained a steadfast defender of freedom and an effective advocate for American security and prosperity.”
Haley halted her presidential campaign in March, even though she had won Vermont and Washington, D.C., following a crushing defeat in the Super Tuesday primaries. Haley had positioned herself as the greatest chance to move on from the previous president while on the campaign trail. She called for a new generation of leaders to move on from both Trump and President Biden and intensified her attacks on them during the final few weeks of her campaign, focusing on their ages. She cited polls that showed her outperforming all other leading Republican contenders for president against Biden in fictitious general election contests.
Additionally, she attacked Vice President Kamala Harris, informing voters in South Carolina that either Haley or Harris would soon be the country’s first female president. She disparaged Trump throughout the campaign on a number of topics, such as his foreign policy positions and the nation’s mounting debt during his presidency. “Chaos follows Trump,” she repeatedly said.
However, as NPR pointed out, she occasionally “seemed to struggle with her messaging as she straddled the difficult line between appealing to independents, moderate Republicans, and other voters who are disenchanted with Trump and pleasing the Republican base.” During a campaign stop in New Hampshire, one of her most famous missteps was her inability to correctly identify slavery as the reason behind the Civil War when questioned. But she turned and hurried back.
Additionally, she made a mistake in her reaction to the contentious Alabama Supreme Court decision that endangered access to in vitro fertilisation, or IVF, a fertility procedure. “To me, embryos are babies,” she said to Ali Vitali of NBC. However, she clarified that “you do not want to take those fertility treatments away from women” in a later interview with Newsman.
When she began to pick up major steam towards the end of last year, it surprised a lot of people. She was unable to surpass the former president, the presumed GOP presidential candidate, despite outperforming Florida Governor Ron DeSantis in the majority of polls.
