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The former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley, who was also Donald Trump's ambassador to the United Nations, will use the coming Christmas holidays to decide whether to launch a run for the presidency in 2024.

Speaking in her home state and at her alma mater, Clemson University, on Tuesday, Haley said: We are taking the holidays to kind of look at what the situation is. If we decide to get into it, we'll put 1,000% in, and we'll finish it."