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    Haley signals a new direction for the GOP's national ticket

    Vice President Kamala Harris' ascent to her current position represents a long step toward making women's full political equality a reality in both parties.
    by Ron Elving Feb 13, 2023 7 minutes
    Former South Carolina Republican Gov. Nikki Haley speaks at the Republican Jewish Coalition Annual Leadership Meeting in Las Vegas, Nev., on Nov. 19, 2022.

    Republican women are poised to play a larger role than ever in the process that chooses their party's national ticket for 2024.

    The most immediate symbol of this is Nikki Haley, the former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, who is expected to announce her candidacy for president on Wednesday. After her planned event in South Carolina, where she was governor from 2011 to 2017, Haley will spend the next two days in New Hampshire, the state that has held the first presidential preference primaries every four years since 1920.

    Haley will be the first high-profile Republican to announce other than former President Trump, which means she will be challenging her former boss for their party's nomination.

    But she is not the only woman from the ranks of well-known current and former officials who will matter in the next GOP nominating process – the first voting events of which are now just a year away.

    Women on the right are finding national political audiences

    Gov. Kristi Noem

    Also widely expected to run is South Dakota's two-term Gov. Kristi Noem, a former member of Congress who

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