Nikki Haley

Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley (R-SC) struggled on Sunday to explain why she was different from other potential 2024 presidential candidates.

In an interview on Fox News, host Maria Bartiromo told Haley she had done an "incredible job at the U.N."

During an appearance on MSNBC's "The Katie Phang Show," former GOP strategist Rick Wilson warned Democrats that Donald Trump will likely be the Republican Party's presidential candidate in 2024 and that they had better be prepared to use whatever they have to destroy him in the run-up to the election.

According to Wilson, he thinks 2024 will be a rematch of the 2020 election where Joe Biden came out on top and that Trump has given Democrats plenty more ammo to use against him since then.

Mike Pence said in an NBC interview he does not believe former President Donald Trump, his one-time running mate and boss, will be the best standard-bearer for the Republican Party in 2024, Axios reported on Friday.

"Pence, who has made a break from Trump since the Jan. 6 insurrection, is still mulling a rare bid against a former running mate — a face-off that could get ugly if the Indiana conservative takes on the bombastic former president," reported Shawna Chen. "'I think by the spring our family expects to have a very clear sense of our calling,' Pence told NBC News' Ali Vitali when asked when he will decide whether to launch a presidential bid."

Donald Trump and his organization are already working state by state in a bid to promote possible delegates who will critically bolster his support at the Republican presidential nominating convention next year, The Washington Post is reporting.

The strategy is well underway even before Trump's rivals — other than Nikki Haley — have announced they're running against him.

The Republican Party is planning to hold its first US presidential primary debate in August in Wisconsin, a swing state Democrat Joe Biden won by just 20,000 votes in 2020.

The Republican National Committee confirmed in an email to members the organization had voted for the debate to take place in the Badger State's largest city Milwaukee at the same time as its summer meeting.

Candidates moving to challenge former President Donald Trump for the 2024 nomination, like South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott and former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, have tried to position themselves as the face of a younger, more optimistic and policy-minded Republican Party. They are bolstered by polling that suggests that Republican voters want a different candidate than Trump.

But there's a problem, commentator Molly Jong-Fast wrote for Vanity Fair on Thursday. Not many Republicans want to move on from Trump — and even fewer want to move on from Trumpism.

When President Joe Biden gave his 2023 State of the Union address on Tuesday night, February 7, he aggressively vowed to protect Social Security and Medicare from GOP efforts to "sunset" or undermine those programs. Biden made it clear that he was not talking about all Republicans or all conservatives, but he was definitely calling out the Republicans who believe that Social Security and Medicare should be abolished or privatized.

Far-right Sen. Rick Scott (R-Florida), for example, has proposed that Social Security and Medicare, instead of being renewed automatically, should be reevaluated by Congress every five years. After a five-year period, Scott has argued, Congress should be required to either refund the programs or terminate them. Even Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) has criticized Scott's proposal as a bad idea.

CNN anchor Don Lemon is back at his job after a short hiatus due to his comments about whether or not Nikki Haley is in her "prime," but according to TMZ, his employer has him on thin ice.

Sources tell TMZ that he was told if he messes up one more time, he'll be booted from the network permanently.

The war of words between former U.N. Ambassador and former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley and Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) escalated as Haley fired back at Sanders after he criticized her proposed test for mental competency for older politicians.

Haley set forth her controversial proposal during hr 2024 campaign announcement late last week, saying, "America is not past our prime. It's just that our politicians are past theirs."

Former President Donald Trump wants all candidates for the role to take a "mental competency test."

"ANYBODY running for the Office of President of the United States should agree to take a full & complete Mental Competency Test simultaneously (or before!) with the announcement that he or she is running,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform.

Senator Bernie Sanders and 2024 GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley are already going back and forth about Haley's suggestion that politicians age 75 and older should take mental competency tests.

In an interview with CBS News' "Face the Nation" this weekend, Sanders said the idea is just another way to express hate.

After launching her 2024 campaign for president last week, Nikki Haley referenced the so-called "Don't Say Gay" law in Florida, saying it didn't go far enough.

“Basically, what it said was you shouldn’t be able to talk about gender before third grade,” Haley said at a town hall in Exeter, N.H. “I’m sorry, I don’t think that goes far enough.”

Donald Trump will likely not be pleased at how he is being viewed by a collection of voters who backed him in 2020 and recently took part in two focus groups about his political future.

The participants, who hail from the key early-voting states of New Hampshire, Nevada, Iowa and South Carolina, uniformly stood up when asked about their previous support for the former president – but that does not make him their first choice when it comes to 2024.