Nikki Haley barely mentions her 2 years working for Trump in her 2024 presidential campaign launch video

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Nikki Haley officially announced on Tuesday that she’s running for US president in 2024, setting up a collision between the former South Carolina governor and her former boss, Donald Trump.

But her campaign launch video makes almost no references to the nearly two years that she spent working for Trump as US ambassador to the United Nations.

Haley instead focuses on her time as governor of South Carolina, where she served for six years before Trump appointed her to the ambassadorship at the beginning of his administration in January 2017. She resigned from the post in December 2018.

It underscores the difficult path that Haley will have to forge as she embarks on a primary challenge against Trump, who remains popular with the Republican base. She once declared that she would not run for president if Trump was in the race, and has said she doesn’t “want us to go back to the days before Trump.”

Haley is set to formally launch her campaign at an event in South Carolina on Wednesday.

As ambassador, Haley was known for her relatively hawkish foreign policy positions, particularly on Israel. She makes just one passing mention of her time at UN headquarters in New York, declaring, “I don’t put up with bullies” as an image of her raising her hand during a meeting is shown.

Haley, leaning heavily on her tenure as governor, also mentions the 2015 shooting at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, when a white supremacist gunman killed nine Black worshippers during a Bible study.

Haley successfully pushed for the removal of the Confederate flag from state Capitol grounds in response to the incident — though she makes no reference to it in the video. She later said the flag symbolized “service, sacrifice and heritage” on a podcast appearance in 2019.

The former South Carolina governor also took a jab at Trump in the video, noting that he failed to win the popular vote in either of his presidential campaigns, and that her party has “lost the popular vote in seven out of the last eight presidential elections.”