Biography
Nalin Haley was born in 2001 to Nikki Haley (née Randhawa) and Michael Haley. [1] He is the youngest of two children. [1] His mother entered politics while Haley was a child, and was elected Governor of South Carolina in 2010 as a Republican. [2] Haley expressed that he felt confusion as a child over religion, with his maternal grandparents being Sikh and his parents Protestant, with the desire to reach an answer on this issue leading the young Haley to read about a number of religions. [2] On Palm Sunday in 2025, Haley was confirmed into the Catholic Church in a South Carolina parish. [3] Haley attended high school in New York amidst his mother's tenure as ambassador to the United Nations, [4] and studied at Villanova University, a Catholic university in Philadelphia, majoring in political science. [2] [5]
During Nikki Haley's 2024 presidential run, Nalin campaigned alongside her, referring to Tim Scott, a South Carolina senator and Donald Trump surrogate, as "Senator Judas" at a campaign stop in Gilbert, South Carolina. [6] Haley also expressed criticisms of Vivek Ramaswamy and Sunny Hostin, both of whom had spoken negatively about Nikki Haley. [6] [7] Haley later stated that his support for his mother during the Republican primaries owed mainly to wanting to be a "good son". [2]
Following the 2024 United States presidential election, Haley became increasingly vocal in expressing his beliefs on social media, advocating against immigration (both legal and illegal) and foreign aid. [2] He has called for the deportation and denaturalisation of Mehdi Hasan, a British American progressive commentator, arguing that Hasan and those who "hate America" should leave the country. [2] Sohrab Ahmari in UnHerd has described Haley's political views as on the right-wing and sharply differing from that of his mother's. [2]
Haley is currently employed in the finance industry, and works in the Charlotte metropolitan area. [2]