Making a passionate plea to re-elect Republican Donald Trump, top Indian-American politician Nikki Haley said that the US President has a “record of strength and success”, while his Democratic rival Joe Biden has a “record of weakness and failure.”

Haley, who was the former US Ambassador to the United Nations, on the first day of the Republican National Convention (RNC) warned Americans that a Biden-Kamala Harris administration would lead the country on the path of socialism, which has failed everywhere in the world.

This President has a record of strength and success. The former Vice President has a record of weakness and failure. Joe Biden is good for Iran and ISIS… great for Communist China… and he’s a godsend to everyone who wants America to apologise, abstain, and abandon our values. Donald Trump takes a different approach. He’s tough on China, and he took on ISIS and won. And he tells the world what it needs to hear, Haley said.

Joe Biden and the socialist left would be a disaster for our economy. But President Trump is leading a new era of opportunity. Before Communist China gave us the coronavirus, we were breaking economic records left and right. The pandemic has set us back, but not for long. President Trump brought our economy back before, and he will bring it back again, she said.

Obama and Biden let North Korea threaten America. President Trump rejected that weakness, and we passed the toughest sanctions on North Korea in history. Obama and Biden let Iran get away with murder and literally sent them a plane full of cash. President Trump did the right thing and ripped up the Iran nuclear deal, Haley said.

Political pundits say that Haley, 48, is herself a presidential candidate for the 2024 elections. The Republican Party and the Trump Campaign opted for her speech on the prime time of the first day of the convention.

Haley, the two-term Governor of South Carolina, is the only Indian-American leader to be featured in the list of RNC speakers released by the Trump campaign.