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☆ Republican Navy Veteran Will Face Henry Cuellar in South Texas
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-28 | by ( Jazmine Ulloa | More About Jazmine Ulloa | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Jay Furman, a retired Navy officer, has won the Republican nomination to challenge embattled Representative Henry Cuellar of South Texas in November, according to The Associated Press. Mr. Furman defeated his challenger, Lazaro Garza Jr., a rancher, in a runoff after the two emerged as the top vote-getters in a crowded March primary. Mr. Cuellar, a centrist Democrat, is still largely expected to win re-election in Texas’ 28th Congressional District. But the terrain has become somewhat more favorable for Republicans after Mr. Cuellar was indicted this month on federal bribery and money-laundering charges. In his district, which stretches from his hometown, Laredo, and the U.S. southern border to the eastern outskirts of San Antonio, Mr. Cuellar is considered an institution.

Persons: Jay Furman, Henry Cuellar, Furman, Lazaro Garza Jr, Cuellar, Imelda Cuellar, Donald J, Trump, —, Biden Organizations: Navy, Republican, Associated Press, Democrat, Congressional Locations: Henry Cuellar of South Texas, Texas, Mexican, Azerbaijan, Laredo, U.S, San Antonio

A U.S. Secret Service agent was removed from Vice President Kamala Harris’s security detail this week after the officer “began displaying behavior their colleagues found distressing,” an agency spokesman said on Thursday. The incident happened Monday morning at Joint Base Andrews outside of Washington, shortly before Ms. Harris left for a campaign event in Wisconsin. A New York Times reporter who was among the media members traveling with Ms. Harris heard medical personnel trying to calm a person down at the scene. “At approximately 9 a.m. April 22, a U.S. Secret Service special agent supporting the vice president’s departure from Joint Base Andrews began displaying behavior their colleagues found distressing,” the Secret Service spokesman, Anthony Guglielmi, said in a statement. “The agent was removed from their assignment while medical personnel were summoned,” Mr. Guglielmi said.

Persons: Kamala Harris’s, “, Base Andrews, Harris, Joint Base Andrews, Anthony Guglielmi, ” Mr, Guglielmi, ” Organizations: Secret Service, Base, New York Times, Joint Base, Naval Observatory Locations: Washington, Wisconsin, U.S

☆ Haley Calls Navalny a ‘Hero,’ Saying Trump Must Answer for His Death
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-17 | by ( Jazmine Ulloa | More About Jazmine Ulloa | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Nikki Haley on Saturday called Aleksei A. Navalny, the outspoken Russian opposition leader, “a hero” and amped up the pressure on former President Donald J. Trump to respond to the news of his death. She said Mr. Navalny had died at the hands of President Vladimir V. Putin and that Mr. Trump needed to “answer to that.”Speaking with reporters outside her rally at a park in Irmo, S.C., Ms. Haley praised Mr. Navalny for calling out Mr. Putin for corruption and fixing elections. “And Trump needs to answer to that. Does he think Putin killed him? Does he think Putin was right to kill him?

Persons: Nikki Haley, Aleksei A, “, ”, Donald J, Trump, Navalny, Vladimir V, Putin, Haley, Mr, —, Ms Organizations: United Nations, Mr Locations: Irmo, South Carolina

With only about 48 hours left to campaign in the New Hampshire primary, Nikki Haley finally got the two-person race she wanted. For months, it has been an article of faith among Ms. Haley’s supporters and a coalition of anti-Trump Republicans that the only way to defeat Donald J. Trump was to winnow the field to a one-on-one contest and consolidate support among his opponents. That wishcasting became reality on Sunday afternoon, when Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida ended his White House bid. And yet, as the race reached the final day, there was little sign that Mr. DeSantis’s departure would transform Ms. Haley’s chances of winning.

Persons: Nikki Haley, Haley’s, Donald J, Trump, Ron DeSantis, DeSantis’s Organizations: Trump Republicans, Gov Locations: New Hampshire, Florida

Nikki Haley might have come in third in the Iowa caucuses, but as she campaigns in New Hampshire for its first-in-the-nation primary next week, her attention is squarely focused on only one rival: Donald J. Trump. Ms. Haley, a former South Carolina governor who served as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations under Mr. Trump, has begun fine-tuning her argument against her former boss, trying out new jabs and unleashing a new attack ad right out of the gate. She has also stepped up her efforts to frame herself as Mr. Trump’s top rival, announcing that she would no longer participate in primary debates that don’t include him. In recent remarks and in a new television ad, Ms. Haley paints Mr. Trump and President Biden as two sides of the same coin: politicians past their prime who are unable to put forth a vision for the country’s future because they are “consumed by the past, by investigations, by grievances.”At a campaign rally on Wednesday in Rochester, N.H., she fended off Mr. Trump’s attacks on her immigration record, warned voters not to believe his ads against her and reminded them that it was Mr. Trump who had wanted to raise the age for Social Security eligibility and had once proposed increasing the gas tax.

Persons: Nikki Haley, Donald J, Trump, Ms, Haley, Trump’s, Biden Organizations: United Nations, Mr, Social Security Locations: Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, Rochester, N.H

☆ For Haley, Rise in Polls Feeds Voter Enthusiasm on Trail
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-29 | by ( Jazmine Ulloa | More About Jazmine Ulloa | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

It was the kind of exchange that Ms. Haley has used to steadily build momentum — and it seems to be paying off. In diners, gyms and event halls across New Hampshire and South Carolina, the state she led for six years, voters have recently shown increased interest in Ms. Haley’s campaign, with a palpable shift in energy. In South Carolina, where her homecoming had the feel of a rally, Ms. Haley’s message appeared to resonate. Her campaign officials said they had to move the event to a larger location last week after so many people signed up to attend. Ms. Haley remains far behind the former president she served under, who continues to dominate in national polls, as well as in surveys in every early-voting state.

Persons: Haley, Haley’s, Donald J, Trump, “ Haley, ” Locations: New Hampshire, South Carolina, Derry, Bluffton, S.C

☆ To Beat Trump, Nikki Haley Is Trying to Speak to All Sides of a Fractured G.O.P.
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-26 | by ( Jazmine Ulloa | More About Jazmine Ulloa | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Her rivals, including Mr. Trump and Gov. “Nikki has always been a tough, anti-establishment conservative,” said Olivia Perez-Cubas, a spokeswoman for Ms. Haley. Ms. Haley’s attempt to thread the needle on abortion is already being tested, as she has faced skepticism from Iowa’s evangelical community, a critical voting bloc. Addressing a conservative Christian audience in Iowa, Ms. Haley said she would have signed a ban on abortion after six weeks of pregnancy as governor. Democrats seized on Ms. Haley’s remarks as proof that, despite her tone, she is no moderate on the issue.

Persons: Ryan Williams, Mitt Romney, Haley, “, ”, Trump, Trump’s, Ron DeSantis, panders, Jaime Harrison, surrogates, “ Nikki, Olivia Perez, Ms, Haley’s, Bob Vander Plaats, DeSantis, Marlys Popma, — Organizations: Republican, Gov, Democratic National Committee, Republican Party Locations: Florida, Iowa

☆ As the Republican Field Narrows, Nikki Haley Makes a $10 Million Move
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-13 | by ( Jazmine Ulloa | More About Jazmine Ulloa | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Nikki Haley’s presidential campaign plans to reserve $10 million in television, radio and digital advertising in Iowa and New Hampshire starting in the first week of December — its first investment in advertising this cycle and a move meant to give the candidate a boost as the clock ticks for the field to make significant gains against former President Donald J. Trump. Ms. Haley, the former governor of South Carolina and a U.S. ambassador to the United Nations under Mr. Trump, has seen steadily rising numbers in surveys of early voting states. A series of standout debate performances has brought in grass roots donors and more high-dollar backers after months of campaigning, with campaign officials saying it raised more than $1 million in the 24 hours after the debate last week. She is now polling second in New Hampshire and third in Iowa, according to some surveys, but Mr. Trump remains the dominant front-runner in those states and nationally.

Persons: Nikki Haley’s, Donald J, Trump, Ms, Haley Organizations: New Hampshire, United Nations, Mr Locations: Iowa, New, South Carolina, U.S, New Hampshire

Last week, Mr. DeSantis doubled down on his opposition to helping some of the nearly one million people contending with shortages of food, clean water and shelter in the region. The Never Back Down ad from this week spliced the clips from Ms. Haley with comments from Mr. DeSantis criticizing her in an NBC interview. Spokespeople for both Mr. DeSantis’s campaign and Never Back Down maintain that their critiques of Ms. Haley are accurate. But Ms. Haley took an aggressive stance against resettling Syrians in her state after the terror attacks in Paris that same year, citing gaps in intelligence that could make the vetting process difficult. Rick McConnell, a 70-year-old Air Force veteran who heard Mr. DeSantis speak, said he understood that Gazans needed food, water and medical supplies.

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☆ Haley Heads Into Second G.O.P. Debate on the Rise, Making Her a Likely Target
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-22 | by ( Jazmine Ulloa | More About Jazmine Ulloa | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

“When she was here last week, we didn’t have to call people, people were calling us,” he said. And with voters and donors starting to pay more attention, her rivals are likely to as well. Since the last debate, Ms. Haley has mostly split her time between New Hampshire and South Carolina while also making up ground in Iowa. She has continued to burnish her foreign policy credentials, criticize Republicans on spending — which played well in the first debate — and call for a change in generational leadership. But she also pledged to defund sanctuary cities and send the military into Mexico to tackle drug cartels.

Persons: ”, Haley, Trump’s Organizations: Anselm College Locations: New Hampshire, South Carolina, Iowa, Grand Mound , Iowa, defund, Mexico, St, Goffstown

☆ Nikki Haley Has a Playbook for Winning Tough Races, but 2024 Is Different
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-04 | by ( Jazmine Ulloa | More About Jazmine Ulloa | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

As in prior races, she’s on a tight budget, spending conservatively, and keeping up a grueling schedule of appearances. But the 2024 contest, in which Ms. Haley still trails former President Donald J. Trump as well as Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida in national surveys, presents different challenges in a vastly altered political landscape. Though she is still pitching herself as an outsider who can take on the establishment, Ms. Haley now has a lengthy political résumé that includes a stint in the Trump administration. And much of the grass-roots support that helped power her victories in South Carolina has rallied behind her former boss, Mr. Trump.

Persons: Haley —, —, Haley, Donald J, Trump, Ron DeSantis, ”, Kevin Madden, Mitt Romney’s Organizations: United Nations, Republican Locations: Milwaukee, Florida, South Carolina

☆ ‘No Place for Hate in America,’ Haley Says, Recalling 2015 Church Massacre
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-28 | by ( Jazmine Ulloa | More About Jazmine Ulloa | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Breaking from her usual stump speech at a South Carolina town hall event on Monday, Nikki Haley paused to condemn a deadly weekend rampage in Jacksonville, Fla., that the authorities were investigating as a hate crime. “I am not going to lie to you, it takes me back to a dark place,” Ms. Haley told an audience of roughly 1,000 people gathered in a corporate campus auditorium in Indian Land. “There is no place for hate in America.”Ms. Haley was governor in 2015 when a white supremacist opened fire in an African American church in Charleston, S.C., and killed nine Black parishioners at a Bible study. Ms. Haley eventually called for the removal of the Confederate battle flag from the grounds of the South Carolina Capitol. Ms. Haley also toed the Republican Party line on guns and racism, suggesting that such violence and mass shootings could be prevented if Americans improved mental health services, abided by gun laws and rejected division and hate in their everyday lives.

Persons: Nikki Haley, “, ” Ms, Haley, Ms Organizations: Confederate, South Carolina Capitol, Republican Party Locations: South Carolina, Jacksonville, Fla, America, Charleston, S.C

☆ Nikki Haley Aims to Turn Her Debate Moment Into Momentum
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-24 | by ( Jazmine Ulloa | More About Jazmine Ulloa | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Less than 30 minutes into the first Republican presidential debate, the men onstage were bickering — just as Nikki Haley predicted. “I think this is exactly why Margaret Thatcher said, ‘If you want something said, ask a man,’” quipped Ms. Haley, the former governor of South Carolina and former ambassador to the United Nations. “If you want something done, ask a woman.”The response was the beginning of a standout performance for Ms. Haley, who already cut a distinct figure: the lone woman in the Republican field, standing in a white and light blue suit-style dress among a stretch of men in nearly identical red ties. Her Thatcher line — a favorite on the stump and the inspiration for the title of one of her books — captured the balance she has sought to strike between testing her party’s attitudes and not leaning too far into her gender. But Ms. Haley, who has struggled to gain traction in primary polls dominated by Donald J. Trump, did not always stay above the fray.

Persons: Nikki Haley, “, Margaret Thatcher, ’ ”, Haley, Thatcher, —, Donald J, Trump Organizations: United Nations, Republican Locations: South Carolina

For President Biden and his party, the appointment of a special counsel on Friday in the investigation into Hunter Biden was hardly a welcome development. A blossoming criminal inquiry focused on the president’s son is a high-risk proposition that comes with the dangers of an election-year trial and investigations that could balloon beyond the tax and gun charges the younger Mr. Biden already faces. Yet many Democrats were sanguine about a dark moment in a summer of cautiously bright news for their president. Part of their sense of calm stems from a version of the what-aboutism often adopted by Republicans since Donald J. Trump’s rise: Mr. Biden’s son is under investigation, Democrats say, but across the aisle, the G.O.P. front-runner has actually been criminally indicted — three times.

Persons: Biden, Hunter Biden, pollsters, Hunter, Donald J, Biden’s, —, “, Donald Trump, ”, Jamie Raskin Organizations: Democratic, Maryland, Republicans

☆ Nikki Haley Fights to Stay Competitive in a One-Sided G.O.P. Primary
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-07 | by ( Jazmine Ulloa | More About Jazmine Ulloa | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Nikki Haley is campaigning at a grueling pace as she fights to stay competitive in the Republican presidential contest, crisscrossing Iowa and New Hampshire to find a clear lane forward in a race dominated by Donald J. Trump and his mountain of legal problems. By many measures, Ms. Haley is running a healthy campaign poised to capitalize on rivals’ mistakes. She has built a robust fund-raising operation and her team has cash to spare: A super PAC backing her this week announced a $13 million advertising effort in Iowa and New Hampshire. And at events, voters often like what she has to say. “She is not pounding the pulpit,” Eric Ray, 42, a Republican legal defense consultant in Iowa, said after watching her speak at a barbecue restaurant last weekend in Iowa City, adding that she had his vote.

Persons: Nikki Haley, Donald J, Trump, Haley, ” Eric Ray, Kamala Harris — Organizations: Republican, PAC Locations: Iowa, New Hampshire, Iowa City

☆ Nuts-and-Bolts Conservatism From Nikki Haley
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-30 | by ( Jazmine Ulloa | More About Jazmine Ulloa | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

“We will make sure that every member of Congress has to get their health care through the V.A. The issues are personal for Ms. Haley, whose husband, Michael, is a major in the South Carolina Army National Guard and served in Afghanistan in 2013. This summer, Ms. Haley joined other military spouses in seeing their partners off, as they deployed to Africa with the Army National Guard. “Don’t you think it’s time we have term limits in Congress? “Johns Hopkins recently came out and defined what a woman was,” she said in Hollis, referring to the research university.

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But Mr. Trump’s legal troubles could still provide an opening for one of his rivals. officer, dared to mention the charges, and he also contradicted Mr. Trump’s false assertion that he had won the 2020 election. “One of the things we need in our elected leaders is for them to tell the truth, even if it’s unpopular,” Mr. Hurd said. Donald Trump is not running for president to represent the people that voted for him in 2016 or 2020. Donald Trump us running to stay out of prison.”The vast majority of the crowd did not agree.

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☆ On the Road With Will Hurd, the Bipartisan Candidate in Search of a Base
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-24 | by ( Jazmine Ulloa | More About Jazmine Ulloa | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

At a pit stop outside Manchester, Mr. Hurd said he had no issue with championing another Republican. But he said he would not support Mr. Trump. “I’m not going to lie to get a microphone,” Mr. Hurd said, digging into a Philly cheesesteak and salty fries. Back on the road, Mr. Hurd did not downplay the challenges. Proving that group of people indeed exists as a coherent base of support will be the ultimate test of his candidacy.

Persons: Hurd, Trump, “ I’m, Mr, — Organizations: Republican National, Philly, Republicans, Republican Party Locations: Manchester

☆ DeSantis, Attacking Biden Policies, Seeks to Burnish Pro-Israel Credentials
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-17 | by ( Jazmine Ulloa | More About Jazmine Ulloa | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Mr. DeSantis never once mentioned the progressive Democrats who have said they will boycott a speech by Mr. Herzog to a joint session of Congress on Wednesday. But he used his speech to emphasize his strong support for Israel and attack White House policies, as many conservatives have sought to portray Democrats who criticize Israel as anti-Zionist or even antisemitic. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a long-shot Democratic presidential candidate, has been invited by House Republicans to testify on Capitol Hill on censorship. And top House Democrats have been rushing to reject comments from Representative Rashida Tlaib, who described Israel as “a racist state” at a progressive conference over the weekend. And he denounced efforts that he argued used “the economy and business to impose a radical left-wing agenda” on Israeli policy.

Persons: DeSantis, Herzog, Israel, Robert F, Kennedy Jr, Rashida Tlaib, Tlaib, “, ” Organizations: Democratic, House Republicans, Democrats, Congressional Progressive Caucus, West Bank, Israel Locations: Israel, Palestinian

☆ Legal Fights and Charges of Discrimination Send Latino Group Into Turmoil
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-13 | by ( Jazmine Ulloa | More About Jazmine Ulloa | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

One of the nation’s oldest and most venerated Latino civil rights organizations is at a critical juncture that some members say could determine its direction — or have dire implications for its future. Some have accused its president of fueling the very discrimination the organization first set out to eliminate. Half a dozen current and former members contend that Domingo Garcia, a Dallas lawyer who has led the group since 2018, is seeking to marginalize Puerto Rican members after he almost lost his seat last year to a candidate of Puerto Rican origin. They said the organization had suspended Puerto Rican members and fired, without cause, some of its most prominent leaders of Puerto Rican descent. Two amendments to the group’s constitution are up for consideration, one of which threatens to purge all island residents from its ranks.

Persons: Domingo Garcia Organizations: League of United Latin American, Puerto Rican Locations: Puerto Rico, Dallas, Puerto Rican

☆ Hill Harper, ‘Good Doctor’ Actor, Enters Senate Race in Michigan
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-10 | by ( Jazmine Ulloa | More About Jazmine Ulloa | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Hill Harper, an author and actor, on Monday entered Michigan’s 2024 Senate race, pledging to run to the left of Representative Elissa Slotkin, a moderate Democrat, in what is expected to be one of the most closely watched Democratic primary races in a 2024 presidential battleground state. Mr. Harper, a first-time candidate known for his roles on “CSI: NY” and “The Good Doctor,” began his campaign with a message focused on expanding Social Security and access to affordable health care, as well as tackling income inequality and student debt. In an interview, he said he planned to position himself as “the most progressive candidate” in the race and would work to bring jaded and unheard voters back into the Democratic fold. Donald J. Trump won this industrial Midwestern state by nearly 11,000 votes in 2016, and lost it to Joseph R. Biden Jr. by more than 150,000 votes in his 2020 re-election bid. Mr. Trump focused on the voting in Michigan in his efforts to subvert the 2020 election.

Persons: Hill Harper, Elissa Slotkin, Harper, ”, Donald J, Trump, Joseph R, Biden Organizations: Monday, Senate, Democratic, CSI, NY, Social Security, Washington , D.C, Michigan Statehouse Locations: Michigan, Washington ,, Washington

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