Nikki Haley, who announced her run for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination last month, on March 3 addressed the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), which over the past several years has been a forum for the Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement led by former President Donald Trump, under whom Haley served as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and who is running again.
About six in 10 Republicans identify more with the party than with Trump, according to an NBC News poll released in December. Nonetheless, the MAGA coalition of the GOP is a significant plurality and, lately, Trump leads in numerous polls. Therefore, Haley, a conservative who has both praised and criticized the populist Trump, had to appeal to the MAGA constituency.
