Nikki Haley

Haley had called on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to “finish them" (Hamas)” after the Palestinian militant group launched the surprise attack from the Gaza Strip on southern Israel..

Fresh out of the second Republican debate this week, Haley led the sitting president by two points -- 40 per cent to 38 per cent in the latest poll by JL Partners for the Daily Mail, which surveyed 1,000 likely voters from September 15 to 20.

The debate on Wednesday night took place at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California, and was hosted by the Fox Business Network and Univision.

The Harvard CAPS-Harris Poll poll released this week found the US president trailing behind GOP candidates, Donald Trump, Haley and Tim Scott but ahead of Indian-American entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.

Nikki Haley, the only woman running for the Republican nomination, had a six percentage-point lead over Joe Biden in a CNN/SSRS poll released on Thursday, with the President trailing Haley 49 per cent to 43 per cent in a hypothetical match between the two.

Fresh out of the first Republican primary debate late last month, Haley told CBS News that she doesn't think that the party front-runner and former boss Donald Trump is going to be the presidential nominee.

On Wednesday, Nikki Haley, 51, accused Vivek Ramaswamy, 38, of supporting America's foreign adversaries and abandoning its friends, and said that her GOP rival lacked foreign policy experience.

Unapologetic about their Indian identities, ideologically, the two represent America First, and understand that their ethnic background alone cannot win them an election in an overwhelmingly white, Christian voter base.