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Al Jazeera
Joseph Stepansky

Haley’s campaign a giant step for GOP women, but bigger still for Trump

Republican presidential candidate and former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley speaks at a campaign event in Greenwood, South Carolina, the United States [File: Matt Kelley/The Associated Press

With polls showing Nikki Haley trailing Donald Trump by a wide margin heading into this weekend’s South Carolina Republican primary, many political analysts characterise the vote as Haley’s last stand in her quixotic bid to win the party’s 2024 US presidential nomination.

Regardless of the result, however, scholars have said that Haley’s campaign is a historic one. By outdistancing a field dominated by men to effectively challenge the immensely popular Trump, she has moved women one step closer to political parity in electoral politics.

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