Student’s Mom Runs for President

Cate McCusker Senior Editor

Last week, Republican Nikki Haley, former South Carolina Governor and U.N. Ambassador, announced her 2024 presidential campaign.

On Presidents’ Day, The Villanovan spoke to Villanova junior Nalin Haley, the son of Nikki Haley, to talk about what it’s like to have a parent run for president.

Unsurprisingly, Haley is a political science major at Villanova, but he says he would have chosen that major even if his mom didn’t work in politics.

Haley went to high school in New York, while his mom worked at the UN, and now he lives in Columbia, South Carolina. He explained that growing up with a high profile politician parent was, well, different.

“It was definitely weird, because there’s a lot of kids that will definitely try to get stuff out of you,” he explained. “You always have to, like, look out for who to trust….But I mean, for the most part, I feel like I’ve lived a pretty normal childhood, as normal as it could get.”

Haley explained that he likes to keep a small circle, and he values the friends that just see him as himself.

“A lot of people will have these assumptions… but I haven’t even had a conversation with them,” he said. “There’s always gonna be people out there that will treat you differently, but on the whole (at Villanova), I feel like this community’s been very good to me.”

His relationship with his mother is also

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