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Arwa Mahdawi

Nikki Haley as first female US president? Unlikely but not impossible

Republican presidential candidate and former UN ambassador Nikki Haley speaks during a campaign event at the Lawrence Community Center in Anamosa, Iowa, on Thursday.
‘Haley may be a woman … but she’s no friend to women or minorities.’ Photograph: Nick Rohlman/AP

Could Nikki Haley become the first female president?

Donald Trump is ending 2023 on quite the low. On Tuesday a Colorado supreme court ruling barred the former president from the state’s presidential ballot, which drove him predictably bonkers. Then, to add insult to injury, he got some bad news from New Hampshire: Nikki Haley, the former governor of South Carolina and the woman Trump appointed to be his ambassador to the United Nations, is catching up to him in the polls. A new Saint Anselm College survey shows Haley with 30% support among likely Republican primary voters in the state, 14 points less than Trump.

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