Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley said she will vote for former President Donald Trump during an event at the Hudson Institute on May 22, 2024 in Washington, DC. Haley, who challenged Trump, her former boss, for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, was named the Walter P. Stern Chair of the institution. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley will host a weekly radio show on SiriusXM starting Sept. 25 and running through the presidential inauguration in January.
“The American people are smart,” Haley said in a press release announcing the show with the satellite radio provider. “They’re sick of distractions in D.C. and noise from the mainstream media. They want to know what the issues are and how the solutions will impact them.”
The show, Nikki Haley Live, will air from 8-9 a.m. every Wednesday.
It will be hosted on SiriusXM’s Triumph Channel 111 and will be available on podcast platforms after airing. The hour-long program will include Haley’s analysis of the news and conversations with guests and callers, according to the release.
It did not say how much they’re paying her, and a spokesperson for SiriusXM did not immediately answer the SC Daily Gazette’s question about it.
Whether the show continues past January depends on whether “Americans like what they hear,” Haley told The Associated Press.
The show is the latest in a series of new roles Haley has taken on since dropping out of the Republican presidential primary in the spring. Haley has said she’s not looking for a job in a potential second Trump administration.
Earlier in September, the Washington-based Edelman Global Advisory, a public affairs division with the Edelman company, announced Haley was joining as a vice chair. This spring, she also took a job with the conservative, Washington, D.C.-based Hudson Institute think tank as the Walter P. Stern Chair.
In 2023, Haley jumped into the Republican presidential primary, opposing her former boss. She ended as the last serious challenger to Trump.
Haley ultimately suspended her campaign after Super Tuesday, having won just Vermont and Washington, D.C. while Trump cruised to victory even in her home state’s GOP primary.
Although Haley declined to endorse Trump when she left the race, her public support for him since has grown from confirming she would vote for him to fully endorsing him at the Republican National Convention.
Haley was a state legislator when voters elected her in 2010 as the Palmetto State’s first female and first minority governor. She left midway through her second term, in January 2017, after Trump named her his first United Nations ambassador.