Nikki Haley served because the U.N. ambassador below President Trump. Earlier than that she was South Carolina’s first feminine governor. However when she introduced her candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination on Valentine’s Day 2024, the greeting from Nationwide Public Radio was no lovefest.

Danielle Kurtzleben interviewed Deepa Fernandes for the Valentine’s Day version of NPR’s discuss present Right here & Now and confirmed Haley no love, turning Haley’s immigrant story towards her: “Her dad and mom are Indian immigrants, one thing that she introduced up in her marketing campaign video. You understand, she’s additionally speaking in regards to the making–coming to America was the perfect choice she ever made. However you understand her time within the Trump administration, there was loads of anti-immigrant rhetoric. Has she responded to any of that?”

Friday’s Morning Version, hosted by Leila Fadel, bizarrely tried to promote a Lincoln Venture senior advisor as a “conservative commentator” whereas ripping Haley: “Our colleague A Martínez requested conservative commentator Tara Setmayer about how Haley’s bid matches into GOP efforts to current a extra inclusive face.”

Setmayer’s latest Twitter feed is wall-to-wall Haley hostility, which maybe explains her NPR look.

TARA SETMAYER: So to see Nikki Haley reemerge now as a presidential candidate feels a bit hole to me, so far as the Republicans’ efforts to proceed diversifying, given the positions that she took and was accepting of working below the Donald Trump administration.

A MARTÍNEZ, HOST: So that you contemplate her a part of the outdated guard of the GOP.

SETMAYER: Right. They’re saying they need to transfer in a brand new course, however they’re resurrecting figures of the previous. Her announcement speech felt very 2000 or 2004, did not really feel as if it was consultant of what the 2023 Republican Occasion represents as a result of Donald Trump continues to be the titular head of it….

Setmayer confirmed she left the Republican Occasion in 2020, which makes her an fascinating option to go to for experience on potential Republican candidates

MARTÍNEZ: If the Republican Occasion had been to, say, disavow Donald Trump, would that be the final or solely huge impediment to actually having an effort by the Republican Occasion to attempt to diversify?

SETMAYER: It has to begin there. We have seen the xenophobia. We have seen the racism. We have now seen how hostile Trumpism has been to diversification on this nation, to minorities, to immigrants. The thought of America First has been very unique; it isn’t inclusive. And till the Republican Occasion has a full repudiation of that, there is no credible try at saying that it is a celebration that’s inclusive and that they are welcoming of range….

On Wednesday, political correspondent Danielle Kurtzleben centered on Haley’s relationship with the Accomplice flag, which she had faraway from the state capital after a white supremacist murdered 9 black churchgoers in Charleston. However Kurtzleben threw in further digs at Trump and Republicans on the whole:

Trump put racial resentment on the forefront of American politics, throughout points from immigration to policing to training. And Trump help has been correlated with sure racist beliefs.

(The above hyperlink goes to the all the time dependable Vox, the place the reporter used to work.)

The reporter ditched Haley to widen her criticism of the GOP:

….Haley is the primary lady of colour to be a significant candidate for the Republican nomination, and he or she acknowledges her distinction…after which instantly blasts Democrats as racially divisive, referencing the 1619 Venture and progressive lawmaker Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

However merely casting Democrats because the enemy will not unify all Republicans — significantly those that are disgusted with what the GOP has develop into….

Teresa Cosby at Furman College factors out that Haley is usually mistaken for a average however proper now, being extra excessive might enchantment extra to main voters in a swath of purple states, together with South Carolina.