The fact that Nikki Haley is coming back home to Bamberg is not just a political event;but it’s a vivid symbol of this town’s ability to rise again. The community in which we dwell starts out feeling the difficulties yet becomes an anchor to us as we reach for a better tomorrow.
On Tuesday, the former US Ambassador to the UN and South Carolina governors, Nikki Haley, made a campaign stop in Bamberg, her hometown of an often-democratic rural area and a site where she said discrimination against her family and herself “pondered” these core values that guide her campaigns.
It’s always a great day in South Carolina when I can come home,” Haley said to a crowd of several dozen gathered at a downtown park.
Nick Haley’s first campaign stop was his hometown, which he is considering as a thinking platform to cut down Donald Trump’s popularity by Feb. 24, when voters will decide in the primary. The present president is scheduled to hold a rally Wednesday in North Charleston, whereas Haley is planning to go to Texas a day after this for the purpose of fundraising and campaigning in the Super Tuesday state.
Strategic Campaign Kickoff
Later on, Tuesday, in the seaside town of Bluffton, Haley addressed a crowd of several hundred people with some of her more pointed criticisms of Trump. She listed the Republican Party’s electoral defeats since Trump emerged victorious in 2016 and posed the question, “How many more times do we have to lose before we start to say, well, he’s the problem?”
Mayor’s Warm Welcome
Haley was presented by Nancy Foster, the mayor of Bamberg, who recalled the former governor’s parents as “gracious and accommodating.”
“Nikki, we want to extend a warm welcome home,” Foster said as Haley looked on, recalling a teenage Haley hosting her friends for “ghost stories and card playing at her house, with all the girlfriends over, each one telling their secrets to one another.”
“And you know, you cannot get them to divulge a thing today — believe me, I have tried,” Foster added with a laugh.
Bamberg’s Political Significance
Bamberg Country is considered to be Destroying the Haley or Trump final results if elections are new held. Some two years back, voters to the left of this city voted for Joe Biden over Trump, bucking the previous 2016 statistics, where the Democrat earned about 62% of votes cast. The suburb lies in the center of the sixth Congressional District, which was a stronghold of the state Democratic Party with a long-serving representative in the House, a Democrat from South Carolina.
The town center of Bamberg has been served several times already this year, and the power was devastating. The tornadoes ripped off roofs and destroyed the exteriors of many buildings. A month after the storm, some of that devastation was visible behind Haley, who said they had conversations in a text message with the siblings, which were heartbreaking as they talked about the picture of what had happened to their homeplace.
“This little town has been through so much,” Haley said. “But I also know this sweet little town is the town that raised me. This is the town that taught me strength. This is the town that taught me grace.”
In her memoirs and public appearances, Haley has often recounted experiencing discrimination during her childhood: prejudice, things they said to her about her ethnicity in school, she was excluded from the beauty contest because she was not black but white. The encounter with the father, a historically Black university professor, on a farmer’s market was a racially motivated stop and frisk that left her informed at the slightest.
Haley once stated that her way of dealing with racism was through entrance to a bridge, and according to her memoir published in 2012, she said that “this habit of finding the similarities and avoiding the differences became very natural to me over time.”
“Nikki, Bamberg is so very proud of you, and we wish you well in all your endeavors,” Foster said Tuesday. “You have come a long way.”