Not interested in being vice president: Indian-American presidential candidate Nikki Haley

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Indian-American senior Republican Party leader Nikki Haley, the lone woman in the party's presidential race, has said she is not interested in being the vice president, asserting that she's running to be the next US president and is contending "to win"...

Haley's remarks came ahead of the Iowa caucuses on Monday, which formally kicks off the beginning of the long process by which the Republicans and Democrats choose their nominees for the presidential election on November 5...

Replying to a question about how she felt about some voters saying they would prefer her as a vice president rather than a president, the 51-year-old former US Ambassador to the UN said, I don't play for a second..

With the Republican contest to choose the nominee for the November 2024 presidential elections beginning on Monday with the Iowa caucus, former president Donald Trump, a front-runner among the party candidates, maintains a sizable lead over Haley, his nearest rival...

Vivek Ramasway, another India-American in the race, though still in the race, has now fallen back, and experts don't see much hope for the 38-year-old biotech entrepreneur during the primary season beginning on Monday.. On being pressed further on what she would say to voters who like her for vice president but who are still backing Trump, the lone woman in the party's presidential race said, "Well, I think look, if you want four more years of chaos, that's what you're gonna get..

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