Haley Campaign Press Release - Nikki Haley's Strong Conservative Record

SPLAT. That's the sound of Ron DeSantis' lame attack on Haley's conservative credentials falling flat.

Throughout her career, Nikki Haley has been a conservative outsider who took on the establishment bullies in both parties. Let's take a look at Haley's long list of conservative accomplishments.

South Carolina Governor

• Transparency: Signed a transparency bill into law opposed by the Republican establishment.
• Transparency: Took on her own party to pass ethics reform.
• Fiscal: Reduced debt and grew reserves.
• Fiscal: Signed small business tax relief into law.
• Fiscal: Killed taxed increases.
• Fiscal: Vetoed $459 million in spending from the state budget.
• Economy: Moved 35,000 people from welfare to work.
• Economy: Created tens of thousands of jobs in all 46 counties.
• Economy: Cut the unemployment rate more than in half, from 10.8% to 4.4%.
• Elections: Passed a voter ID bill.
• Big Government: Stood up to Obama over union bosses preying on workers.
• Big Government: Opposed TARP and the bank bailouts.
• Big Government: Challenged Obama's Clean Power Plan in federal court.
• Big Government: Sued the EPA.
• Immigration: Signed an Arizona-style immigration law that included statewide E-Verify.
• Immigration: Fought the Obama administration over the E-Verify law and won.
• Immigration: Fought the Obama administration on accepting Syrian refugees, undocumented minors, and Guantanamo Bay prisoners in South Carolina.
• Life: Signed the South Carolina Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, which banned late-term abortions at 20 weeks.
• Life: Signed the Born Alive Infant Protection Act.
• Life: Signed the South Carolina Telemedicine Act.
• Second Amendment: Signed a bill that repealed many of the state's outdated anti-gun laws.
• Second Amendment: Signed reciprocity legislation with Georgia, expanded concealed carry rights, and backed the Constitutional Carry Act.
• Israel: Signed the first anti-BDS legislation in the country.

UN Ambassador

• China: Hammered China and Russia into signing onto the toughest set of sanctions ever against North Korea.
• Israel: Cut U.S. aid to the corrupt, anti-Israel UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA).
• Israel: Pushed President Trump to move the U.S. embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
• Israel: Vetoed a UN Security Council resolution condemning America for moving its embassy.
• Israel: Led the charge to withdraw the U.S. from the anti-Israel UN Human Rights Council.
• Israel: Repeatedly defended Israel's right to defend itself.
• Israel: Led the U.S. withdrawal from the anti-Israel UNESCO.
• Israel: Forced the UN General Assembly to vote on declaring Hamas a terrorist group.
• Israel: Fought the blacklisting efforts against Israel at the UN.
• Russia: Was the administration's fiercest critic of Russia.
• Cuba: Voted no on the UN resolution condemning the U.S. embargo on Cuba.
• Venezuela: Stood up for the Venezuelan people against the socialist dictator.
• Iran: Was the "Iran whisperer," encouraged President Trump to leave the Iran deal,
• Environment: Defended the decision to pull out of the Paris Climate Accord.
• Environment: Opposed the Global Pact for the Environment.
• Immigration: Defended the administration's travel ban.
• UN: Cut the UN budget and saved one billion dollars.