Haley's parents moved to a small town in South Carolina called Bamberg. She tells stories about feeling very much like an outsider. "We weren't white enough to be white. We weren't black enough to be black," she says.
Nikki Haley, the former governor of South Carolina, is running for president. Vox’s Andrew Prokop says she’s likely the first of many prominent Republicans to challenge Trump.
This episode was produced by Miles Bryan, edited by Amina Al-Sadi, fact-checked by Laura Bullard and Matt Collette, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey, and hosted by Noel King.
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