Nikki Haley: 'Proud daughter of Indian immigrants - not Black, not white…different'

Screenshot. Nikki Hale's campaign video

Nikki Haley, former South Carolina governor and US ambassador to the UN, and current candidate for the Republican Party’s 2024 presidential nominee starts her campaign with a line that lays it all out. “I was the proud daughter of Indian immigrants — not Black, not white. I was different,” Ms Haley says in a video.

News of the three-minute-33-second video was exclusively revealed by Axios, ahead of Ms Haley’s February 15 announcement she is the first challenger to former president Donald Trump in the Republican presidential primary. Interestingly, Axios, which is both politically astute and incredible well-networked, suggested Ms Haley would probably “be the only woman in the Republican field”.

As also, probably the only Indian-American, in both the Republican and Democratic field?

And the only Indian-American woman on either side?

Does it matter that Ms Haley is the first Indian woman born and bred in America to run for president? Does any of this m…