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Nikki Haley is expected to announce her 2024 run for president. Meet her family.
Nikki Haley is expected to announce her 2024 run for president. Meet her family.
Talia LakritzFeb 13, 2023, 21:52 IST
<p class="ingestion featured-caption">Nikki Haley with her husband, Michael, daughter Rena, and son Nalin in the drawing room of the Governor's Mansion in Columbia, South Carolina, in 2015.Richard Shiro/AP</p><ul class="summary-list"><li>Former governor and UN ambassador Nikki Haley is <a href="https://www.insider.com/nikki-haley-2024-presidential-election-south-asian-model-minority-myth-2023-2" rel>expected to announce a 2024 run for president</a>.</li><li>Her parents are Indian immigrants who both worked as teachers and owned a clothing boutique.</li></ul>
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Nikki Haley is expected to announce her 2024 run for president on February 15.
Nikki Haley visits "Hannity" at Fox News Channel Studios on January 20, 2023 in New York City.Theo Wargo/Getty Images
Haley's parents, Ajit Singh Randhawa and Raj Kaur Randhawa, are Indian immigrants from Punjab who both worked as teachers and owned a clothing boutique.
Nikki Haley hugs her mother, Raj Kaur Randhawa, in 2010. Her father, Ajit Singh Randhawa, stands in the background.Chris Keane/Getty Images
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Haley was raised Sikh and converted to Christianity before marrying her husband, Michael Haley, in 1996.
Nikki Haley and husband Michael Haley in India in 2014.NARINDER NANU/AFP via Getty Images
Michael is a captain in the South Carolina Army National Guard.
Senator Lindsey Graham, Governor Nikki Haley, Captain Michael Haley, and daughter Rena Haley talk before a deployment ceremony in January 2013.Rainier Ehrhardt/AP
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"Seeing him, I felt like I took my first breath in a year," Haley told the Associated Press after her husband returned from his deployment.
Nikki Haley hugs her husband, Michael Haley, during a homecoming ceremony in December 2013.Rainier Ehrhardt/AP
The Haleys have two children, Rena and Nalin.
Nikki Haley with her husband, Michael, daughter Rena, and son Nalin in the drawing room of the Governor's Mansion in Columbia, South Carolina, in 2015.Richard Shiro/AP
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Rena, 24, is a nurse who graduated from Clemson University (her mother's alma mater) in 2021.
Nikki Haley sits with her husband, Michael, and their daughter, Rena, during her inauguration ceremony in January 2015.Richard Shiro/AP
Nalin, 21, is currently a junior at Villanova University in Pennsylvania.
Nikki Haley testifies on Capitol Hill in 2017. Behind her, from left to right: son Nalin Haley, husband Michael Haley, and father Ajit Singh Randhawa.Evan Vucci/AP